From: Gerry Reinhart-Waller
Message: 13295
Date: 2002-04-16
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Sent: Tuesday, April 16, 2002 8:36 AM
Subject: [tied] Re: Cranial Indexing
> george knysh <gknysh@...> wrote
> <<*****GK: For what it's worth, such "craniological"measurements were
> extensively done by Ukrainian archaeometrists with respect to the Scythian
> and Sarmatian populations of the region... Has any archeometry been done
on
> Alanic skulls in the West?>>
>
> It would also be very interesting to know if any DNA recovery has been
> attempted on any of those remains.
I seem to recall something about Russian archaeologists uncovering 6th or
7th century burials yet there was a haze of mystery surrounding the report.
Does anyone have further information? It had something to do with the
presence of two skulls, I think.
Gerry