title: REVISITING THE ISSUE OF CONNECTIONS AMONG THE NOMADS SOCIAL ELITE FROM THE SOUTHERN URALS ACCORDING TO CRANIOLOGY DATA FROM THE FILIPPOVKA KURGANS
abstract: The article is devoted to the reconstruction of the relations of the nomads‘ social elite from the Southern Urals buried in the cemetries of the kurgans Filippovka 1, 2. The total craniological series of these monuments consists of 22 skulls (9 male and 13 female) representing brachycranial broad-faced Caucasoids. The aim of the study is to determine the historical roots of this group including their migration patterns, as well as their contacts with the surrounding population. The study is base
journal: Nizhnevolzhskiy Arheologicheskiy Vestnik