EARLY RESIDENT OF THE CITY OF PERM IN THE SECOND QUARTER OF THE 18TH CENTURY ACCORDING TO DENTAL ANTHROPOLOGY

The aim of this article is to describe the odontological characteristics of the first inhabitants of the city of Perm. The study examines skeletal remains of the early settlers buried in synchronous necropolises dating from the second quarter of the 18th century, which appeared with the foundation of the Yegoshikha copper smelting plant in 1723. This skeletal series is the only paleoanthropological source on the population of Perm and the largest paleoanthropological sample from the Perm Kama region. A total of over 160 individuals were studied. The results reveal that the odontological complex of the Perm population is close to the northern gracile variant within the western odontological trunk, which largely correlates with northern Europeans and part of the populations of the Uralic race. Such odontological features are characteristic of many Volga and Kama region populations. Consequently, the study concludes that the urban population formed primarily on the basis of the local population. In addition to migration flows into the Cis-Ural region, the anthropological characteristics of the first settlers may also have been influenced by the incoming population from the Volga region, which migrated westward during the course of Russian colonization. At the same time, no Siberian or Trans-Ural influence was detected, indicating the unidirectional nature of this process.