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Siberian "Eskimo" ethnography and physical anthropology
Topic Started: Nov 20 2010, 11:09:35 PM (400 Views)
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According to the description of the section, we are supposed to post Eskaleut topics in this subforum, now. Just to be sure: do you think so, ren?




- Sireniki community: original language extinct
- Ungazigmit Yupik/Chaplino, Sireniki (after linguistic assimilation of the Sireniki community and prior to its switch to Russian): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_Siberian_Yupik_language
- Nuvuqaqmit/Naukan: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naukan_language

... ^These groups might be of interest because their genome and linguistic history might imply ethnographic processes in a relatively obvious way (y hg N instead of Q in the tested samples; language switch in the Sireniki population).




Alekseev's NE Asian samples (according p. 150 of his 1979 article):
Chukchi/coastal: Uelen, Ichoun, Lorino, Enurmino, Neshkan
Chukchi/tundra: Kurupka river valley, Nunyamo
Eskimo/Nunyamo (Naukan dialect), Sireniki (Chaplino dialect), Uelkal (Chaplino dialect), Chaplino (Chaplino dialect)
Even/central Kamchatka: Esso, Anavgay
Itelmen/Kovran, Khayryuzovo
Koryak/Palana (Palan dialect); central Kamchatka: Sobolevo; eastern Kamchatka: Pakhacha, Akhaveym (Chukchi admixture); Karaga (Karaga dialect); "Penzhina group": Manily, Slautnoye

don't know which samples he chose or pooled for his tables 1 and 2. In any case, the calculations for the according indices would look like this...
Chukchi/coastal: 1196/1496=79,9; 1139/1410=80,8
Eskimo: 1198/1497=80,0; 1136/1423=79,8
Even: 1178/1476=79,8; 1108/1409=78,6
Itelmen: 1213/1468=82,6; 1116/1355=82,4
Koryak/western coastal: 1169/1425=82,0; 1116/1355=82,4

So Alekseev's Even zygo-gonial index resembles the indices of other samples from different anthropometrists, such as Zheng Lianbin's, Talko-Hryncevicz's, Levin's,, Li Ming's and Shirokogorov's. As Alekseev himself mentions, the jaw values of the other groups chosen by him for his tables 1 and 2 (pp. 150-1) are large (p. 149). And the indices demonstrate that this is not just absolutely the case but also in relation to the cheekbones. I.e., Siberian Eskaleuts seem to have moderately broad jaws according to the values reported by Alekseev. But they're metrically not the most extreme NE Asian ethnographic group concerning this.

Debets' "Eskimo" samples include 25 Diomed males, 66 Naukan males and "southeastern" males from Ungazik (Chaplino) and Seriniki. Unfortunately, the Seriniki sample was pooled with another one. Yet, it could still have had a special effect on the data when compared with the Diomed and Izukan samples:
- facial dimensions: high and broad (broad jaw in particular though relative jaw breadth is still lower than in Koryaks)
--- 1149/1419=81,0 (Russian sectarians) > 1196/1479=80,9 ("southeastern Eskimos") > 1168/1495=78,1 (Naukan Eskimos)
- nose shapes: most convex noses in NE North Asia
- apparently less dark hair and by far less straight/stiff hair than the other Eskimos, instead more wavy hair
- most marked beard growth in NE North Asia (even more marked than in the Russian-admixed Itelmens)

Source: Дебец 1949: Антропологические исследования на камчатке
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