Sergey Mikhailovich Slepchenko

• Doctor of Philosophy
• Leading Researcher at Tyumen Scientific Center Siberian Brunch Russian Academy of Sciences

We present an arhaeoparasitological analysis of a unique burial from the Neftprovod II burial ground in East Siberia, which dated from the Bronze Age. Analysis of a sediment sample from the sacral region of the pelvis revealed the presence of Taenia sp. eggs. Because uncooked animal tissue is the primary source of Taenia, this indicated that the in...

An excavation of the Vesakoyakha II-IV and Nyamboyto I burial grounds was conducted during the 2014 field season, and soil samples from intact burials dating from the 19th and 20th centuries, respectively, were analyzed to determine interactions between parasites and host/vectors. Considering the discovery of Diphyllobothrium sp. and Taenia sp. egg...

We report a case study of cranial trepanation in a male subject 30 to 40 years of age from the Nefteprovod II burial ground in the Anzhevsk archeological site. This burial dates back to the Late Bronze Age, in particular the Karasuk culture located in the Minusinsk Basin on the Yenisei River and on the upper reaches of the Ob River. The left pariet...

We present a paleoparasitological analysis of the medieval Zeleniy Yar burial ground of the XII-XII centuries AD located in the northern part of Western Siberia. Parasite eggs, identified as eggs of Opisthorchis felineus, were found in the samples from the pelvic area of a one year old infant buried at the site. Presence of these eggs in the soil s...

The article presents the findings from an archaeoparasitological study of soil samples collected from the drainage and pavement of the Roman settlement of Myrmekion, located in the modern city of Kerch (Eastern Crimea). The soil samples revealed eggs from four types of intestinal parasites that infect humans and domestic animals. The presence of ge...

The subsistence economies of prehistoric pastoralists of the Eurasian steppes have long been viewed through an oversimplified model of reliance on domesticated animals. This conceptualization has begun to shift dramatically through the introduction of scientific analyses, pivoting towards an evidence-based interpretation of economic flexibility and...

The landscape-climatic confinement of villages that were founded in the late 19th — early 20th century by peasant-migrants in the territory of the modern Odessa district of the Omsk oblast has been examined. Trend analysis, which were identified during the integration of remote sensing data, meteorological measurements and ethnographic materials in...

For the first time, this paper presents a complex study of the burial of the ancient Russian woman from the classic “Vyatich” mound from the Kremenyie burial site (Moscow region). The mounds and synchronized ground cremation burials are combined at this unique 12th-century burial site. The aim of this research is to examine the historical details o...

In the paper, the results of an archaeoparasitological analysis of a population group from the ancient Greek city of Panti-kapaion, located in the historical centre of the modern city of Kerch (Republic of Crimea), are presented. The aim of the study is to obtain information about the parasitic diseases, state of health, nutrition, and hygiene in a...

The North Eurasian forest and forest-steppe zones have sustained millennia of sociocultural connections among northern peoples. We present genome-wide ancient DNA data for 181 individuals from this region spanning the Mesolithic, Neolithic and Bronze Age. We find that Early to Mid-Holocene hunter-gatherer populations from across the southern forest...

We studied linear enamel hypoplasia (LEH) in cranial series representative of Eurasian farmers with divergent lifestyles and natural environments: Siberian Russian settlers and Joseon dy‍nas‍ty people. The teeth of Siberian settlers and Joseon people of the 16th–19th centuries were ex­amined in this study. We inspected specimens to detect signs of...

Two graves of the 2 nd—3 rd centuries were found by the archaeological expedition to the Kyz-Aul necropolis in 2021. They contained remains of six individuals. We implemented an anthropological study of the skeletons and an archaeoparasitological analysis of soil samples. We identified sex and age and described pathological and individual features...

The life of the long-established Russian inhabitants of Western Siberia has been well described. In fact, archaeological, ethnographic, and other information on its various aspects is abundant. Archaeoparasitological data, on the other hand, is lacking, particularly with regard to parasitosis incidence. In the present study, eggs of such fish paras...

In arctic zone of West Siberia, native people's bodies were sometimes mummified inside the medieval graves. In 2013 to 2017, we conducted the excavations of medieval graves at Zeleny Yar cemetery in Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug. Among the burials, current report deals with the mummy grave #79. During the investigation, bronze plate and strips, wo...

A specific human population’s diet can be estimated by analysis of carbon and nitrogen isotopes in bones or other organic materials unearthed at archaeological sites. In the present study, we investigated the dietary patterns of two agrarian populations of the Eurasian continent to determine if they might show heterogeneities despite their temporal...

Introduction. The article presents the results of archaeoparasitological analysis of the Phanagoria necropolis materials. Methods and materials. We studied soil samples obtained during the processing of anthropological material (sacrums) from 45 individuals. Results. The eggs of two species of intestinal parasites - human whipworm (Trichuris trichi...

The article presents the results of archaeoparasitological and palynological research of the cultural layers located in the ancient Artesian settlement in the Eastern Crimea. The study revealed the species composition of parasites and palynological spectrum in the cultural layers. Parasite eggs distribution over the layers indicates high content of...

Previously, burials at Ryabchikov Klyuch-1 on the Kan River near Kansk were dated to the Late Middle Ages (pre-Russian period) and attributed to an autochthonous group. In 2015, two burials were discovered at the cemetery, with the remains of an adolescent girl and a child. A comprehensive analysis of the burial rite and grave goods suggests that t...

While early Turkic populations of northern Central Asia are traditionally thought to have been specialized nomads, over the past few years archaeological studies have shown that at least some of these peoples were engaged in farming, especially low-investment millet cultivation. The Turkic populations that spread across West Asia are thought to hav...

Migration processes played a key role in shaping the cultural and genetic landscapes in Eurasia. Significant progress in the field of migration studies in recent years is associated with the development of methods for studying ancient DNA, making it possible to reach a new level of understanding the population-genetic aspects of ancient migrations...

Objective: The prevalence of calculus is known to be variable by difference in diets or subsistence strategy between human populations. However, this situation has not been confirmed so far for hunter-gatherers and farming people in terms of history. In this study, we tried to reveal the association of diets or subsistence with calculus in differe...

Archeoparasitological studies of the territory of northeastern Siberia are very rare. Stadukhinsky (Nizhnekolymsky) Fort ranks high in the history of the development of northeastern Siberia. We report data on the incidence and range of intestinal parasites discovered in samples taken from the occupation layer of Stadukhinsky Fort and human and anim...

Поротический гиперостоз — скелетный маркер, используемый для оценки уровня физиологического стресса в детстве. Несмотря на широкое распространение гипотезы, согласно которой при переходе к земледелию здоровье населения ухудшалось, прямых сопоставлений частот этой патологии у охотников-рыболовов-собирателей и земледельцев до сих пор проведено немног...

Погребения на местонахождении Рябчиков Ключ-1 на р. Кан у г. Канска представлены в литературе как позднесредневековые объекты, характеризующие культуру местного населения до начала русской колонизации Сибири. В 2015 г. здесь были обнаружены две могилы, содержавшие останки девушки и ребенка. На основании комплексного анализа погребального обряда и с...

The article presents the results of an archaeoparasitological and palynological study of a sample taken from the sewagedrain of the Chorgun Tower. This is a fortification on the territory of the village of Chernorechie (South-Western Crimea).According to archaeological research, the construction of the keep dates back to the third quarter of the 15...

The article presents the results of an archaeoparasitological and palynological study of a sample taken from the sewage drain of the Chorgun Tower. This is a fortification on the territory of the village of Chernorechie (South-Western Crimea). According to archaeological research, the construction of the keep dates back to the third quarter of the...

The paper presents the results of an archaeoparasitological analysis of the soil samples from a number of the burials dated to the end of the 4th — first half of the 3rd c. B.C. of the ancient burial ground of Volna 1 situated in the territory of the “Asiatic part” of the Bosporan Kingdom (present-day Temryuk District, Krasnodar Krai). As the resul...

From 12 until 28 of February 2020 the Nubian archaeological and anthropological mission of the Anuchin Research Institute and Museum of Anthropology, Lomonosov Moscow State University carried out the third season of archaeological works at the site Deraheib. The site is situated in the Red Sea province of the Sudan Republic in headwaters of Wadi al...

During archaeological excavations, soil samples may not always be taken from the sacrum of the buried for archaeoparasitological research. At the same time, anthropological material, along with sacrums, is stored in museums and anthropological depositories around the world, but scarcely used for archaeoparasitological research. Therefore, this stud...

The resilience of intestinal parasite ova to harsh environmental conditions and possibility of identification of many of them down to genus/species with the aid of conventional visual light microscopy make parasites an im-portant source of information on different aspects of life of ancient populations. Of special interest is the study of the pheno...

In 2002–2003 years, excavations were conducted in the town of Mangazeya, one of the northernmost Russian settlements in Western Siberia. Herein, we report data on the incidence and range of intestinal parasites discovered in samples taken from the occupation layer of Mangazeya and human and animal coprolites. Among the eggs found, Diphyllobothrium...

This article shows the potential of reconstruction of human migrations based on archaeoparasitological data. On the example of the territory of Western Siberia and based on the characteristics of the biology and ecology of the intermediate hosts of Opisthorchis felineus, it was determined, if we want to reconstruct migrations related to the territo...

This study aims to reconstruct the dietary habits of a local group of the Northern (Upper Taz) Selkup in the 18th and 19th centuries based on multidisciplinary analyses of human interments from the Kikki-Akki burial site in Western Siberia and a study of unpublished written sources. It includes archaeoparasitological studies of soils adjacent to hu...

The aim of this parasitological study is examining contemporary (the late 20th century) specimens of the arctic or subarctic areas in Western Siberia and comparing them with the information acquired from archaeological samples from the same area. In the contemporary specimens, we observed the parasite eggs of 3 different species: Opisthochis feline...

An archaeoparasitological analysis of the soil samples from Nadym Gorodok site of Western Siberia has been carried out in this study. The archaeological site was dated as the 13 to 18th century, being characterized as permafrost region ensuring good preservation of ancient parasite eggs. Parasite eggs as Opisthorchis felineus, Alaria alata, and Dip...

The article considers the dietary habits of a small Selkup group that lived in the north of Western Siberia along the upper reaches of the Taz River in the18th–19th centuries. To this end, we carried out paleopathological and archaeoparasitological studies of the anthropological material from a burial ground located next to the once-existing settle...

This article examines the prevalence and range of parasitic diseases based on soil sediment samples found in the town of Yeniseisk located in western Siberia. These soil samples were taken from the sacral surface of 14 individuals buried at the cemetery of the Epiphany Cathedral dating back to the 17th century, and 15 samples of toilet contents tak...

Ancient human movements through Asia Ancient DNA has allowed us to begin tracing the history of human movements across the globe. Narasimhan et al. identify a complex pattern of human migrations and admixture events in South and Central Asia by performing genetic analysis of more than 500 people who lived over the past 8000 years (see the Perspecti...

The paper studies the results of the analysis of samples from sacrum and sacral foramina selected areas of the skeletal remainings extracted from the Sarmatian kurgan burials of the burial mound Kovalevka. The analysis revealed intestinal parasites' eggs of two genus Diphyllobothrium sp. and Trichuris sp. Few factors explain the presence of intesti...

This article presents results of a comprehensive study of paleoanthropological materials from the Buchta Nakhodka 2 burial on the Yamal peninsula (Yamalsky district, Yamal-Nenets Autonomous Area, Tyumen region, Russia). Morphological features of the skulls indicate their belonging to the Eastern-Mongoloid anthropological formation. However, in term...

Buchta Nakhodka 2 is the oldest and most northern burial ground in the territory of Western Siberia. Examination of samples from the anterior aspect of the sacrum and sacral foramina revealed helminth eggs of Diphyllobothrium sp. This discovery proves the existence of intestinal parasites among members of the medieval Buchta-Nakhodka populations wh...

Notwithstanding the pioneering achievements of studies on arctic mummies in Siberia, there are insufficient data for any comprehensive understanding of the bio-cultural details of medieval people living in the region. In the Western Siberian arctic, permafrost mummies have been found in 12th to 13th century graves located in the Zeleny Yar (Z-Y) bu...

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This article presents an archaeoparasitological analysis of a child mummy from the medieval Zeleniy Yar burial ground (12-13th centuries AD) located in the northern part of western Siberia. Analysis of samples from the intestinal contents of the child mummy revealed eggs of Opisthorchis felineus, suggesting that people of the region consumed raw or...

Objective: Increased prevalence of dental caries evidently is correlated with increasing intake of sugar and carbohydrate-rich foods. Preceding and accompanying this dietary alteration might have been a shift from a hunting-and-gathering subsistence strategy to one based on agriculture. We corroborated this conjecture by means of a study on the pre...

A small sample of paleoanthropological materials from the burial grounds Buchta Nakhodka 2 and Yumadoto 1 in the Yamal Peninsula (Yamal district of Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug of Tyumen Region) has been studied in order to specify the nature of intra-group and inter-population variability. The morphological features of the skulls indicate their...

Russia, both as the USSR and the Russian federation, provided a source of parasitological theory for decades. A key figure in Russian parasitology was Yevgeny Pavlovsky. He developed the nidus concept of Pavlovsky provided the conceptual basis for the field of pathoecology. He also coined the term "Paleoparasitology". Pathoecology is a foundation c...

The identification of parasites in ancient human remains can address questions of past health, disease, mobility and mortuary customs. Archaeoparasitological evidence from Russia is, however, almost absent. This study presents the first such evidence in the form of a helminth infection in a mummified individual from the southern Siberian site of Do...

The genetic formation of Central and South Asian populations has been unclear because of an absence of ancient DNA. To address this gap, we generated genome-wide data from 362 ancient individuals, including the first from eastern Iran, Turan (Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, and Tajikistan), Bronze Age Kazakhstan, and South Asia. Our data reveal a complex...

This study addresses caries prevalence in Ayaly and Kaurdak-Sargat groups of Siberian Tatars living in the Omsk Region of the Irtysh. Judging by dental remains from the Okunevo VII and Bergamak II cemeteries (17th–18th centuries), the caries frequency among those people was similar to that in the late medieval population of northwestern Siberia. Th...

Joseon mummies have proved to be excellent subjects for scientific research on the health and disease statuses of pre-modern Korean peoples. Despite its academic significance, the origins of the Hoegwakmyo tomb in which the Joseon mummy was discovered have not yet been entirely revealed. Meanwhile, over the past several decades, there have been som...

The Kulun-Atakh archeological culture of the Sakha [Yakut] people is described on the basis of burials dated to the fourteenth through sixteenth centuries. This is a period before the arrival of Cossacks, when the Sakha were first practicing livestock herding in the vast territories of what is today the Sakha Republic (Yakutia). Recent dating techn...

The article summarizes archeoparasitological results of a study of the burial grounds left by local indigenous groups from the northern part of Western Siberia (northern Selkups and tundra Nenets from the Taz River Basin). We compared the results with ethnographic materials and gave a brief description of archeoparasitological research methodology....

The paleoanthropological material discovered at a shrine in Bolshoy Log fortified settlement of the Kulay culture is of a big interest regarding the formation of the morphological type of the Kulay population. Despite the wide area of distribution (the Middle and Lower Ob River basin and adjacent territories of Western Siberia) and a long historica...

Ust-Ishim man was the representative of one of the ancestral groups of the Homo sapiens, Neanderthals and Denisovans. The first results of a comprehensive mineralogical and geochemical study of fossil bones using a wide range of physical, chemical and physico-chemical methods: thermal analysis, optical microscopy, scanning electron microscopy, atom...

This article presents a complex study of the female burial of the XVII century in Central Yakutia. The burial rite (traces of ritual roasting of the coffin, orientation to the North) and composition of the accompanying inventory (a knife of the non-Yakut origin, a sphero-conical top part of a headdress with a support for a plume, twin overlaid deco...

Afontova Gora II is a Late Palaeolithic site dated between 15000 and 11000 years BP. The archaeological material is typical for the Afontova culture. The lithic industry is characterized by pebble tools and sidescrapers, as well as narrowfront and wedge-shaped microcores associated with microblade production. Raw material is dominated by small and...

The results of the comprehensive mineralogical-geochemical studies carried out for the first time for bone detritus from human burials of the Bronze-Iron Age belonging to the highly valuable archaeological monuments are discussed. History of discovery and archaeological studies of Ust-Poluy settlement-sanctuary (Salekhard), as well as the microstru...

Zeleny Yar is a cemetery situated 40 km east of Salekhard, Yamal-Nenets Autonomous Okrug (YNAO). Human re mains of 43 individuals from 37 graves have been described so far. Mummifi ed remains were discovered in eight graves dating to the 12th or 13th centuries. We outline the results of a computed-tomography analysis of the bestpreserved mummy--tha...

Обсуждаются результаты впервые проведенных для археологических памятников высокого значения комплексных минералого-геохимических исследований костного детрита из человеческих погребений бронзово- го — железного веков. Рассмотрены история открытия и археологическо- го изучения Усть-Полуйского городища-святилища (г. Салехард), особен- ности микростро...

Afontova Gora II is a Late Palaeolithic site dated between 15000 and 11000 years BP. The archaeological material is typical for the Afontova culture. The lithic industry is characterized by pebble tools and sidescrapers, as well as narrow-front and wedge-shaped microcores associated with microblade production. Raw material is dominated by small and...

This st udy addresses the prevalence of caries in Ayaly and Kaurdak-Sargat groups of Siberian Tatars living in the Omsk Region of the Irtysh. Judging by dental remains from the Okunevo VII and Bergamak II cemeteries (16th- 17th centuries), the frequency of caries among those people was similar to that in the late medieval population of northwestern...

The paper presents a comprehensive study of graves which relate to rare burial sites of the early stage of ethnic history of the Yakuts. The burial belongs to an equestrian warrior. It is confirmed by the findings of the horse harness and fragments of weapons, including a part of a Central Asian composite bow which is unique to the Yakuts, arrowhea...

Remains of two individuals, a mandible and an atlas, from a stratifi ed Upper Paleolithic site Afontova Gora II, dating to 16–12 ka BP, are described. The mandible was of a 14–15-year-old female. Certain nonmetric traits indicate its anatomical modernity, whereas the dimensions are closer to those of modern adolescents than to those of Upper Paleol...

В целях презентации междисциплинарного научного проекта рассмотрены объекты и методы минералого-геохимических исследований костного детрита плейстоценовых млекопитающих, включающего усть-ишимскую кость древнейшего в Северной Евразии сапиенса. Показано, что в результате последовательного использования оптической, сканирующей электронной и атомно-сил...

В данном приложении представлены результаты исследования костных останков людей из погребений археологического памятника Частухинский урий (Монкысь урий), находящегося близ поселка Угут, в бассейне реки Большой Юган, в зоне компактного проживания юганских хантов.

Afontova Gora II site is situated in Krasnoyarsk and is known to archaeologists for more 100 years. It is eponymous site of Afontovskaya archaeological culture of Late Paleolithic time and is dated by time span since 11 to 15 kyr. The study of site was reopened in 2014 whereas it is necessary to conduct archeological safe operations in the area of...

2000; Ражев, 2009]. Такой подход позволил не только оп-ределить антропологический тип и остеологическую конституцию саргатского населения, но и выявить различные морфотипы физической активности у мужского и женского населения исходя из анализа остеологических маркеров, реконструировать обыденные действия древнего населе-ния. Также были изучены трав...

Представлены результаты палеопатологического исследования костного материала из раннесредневекового могильника IV–VI вв. н.э. Устюг-1. Установлено, что состояние здоровья людей, погребенных в могильнике, было удовлетворительным, об этом свидетельствует небольшое число патологий. Отсутствие воспалительных проявлений на костях, наличие лишь одного сл...

The archaeological site Ust-Tushama 1 is located in the Ust-Ilimsk district of the Irkutsk region on the right coast of the River Tushama (the left inflow of the Angara River). The total area of the site investigated in 2012 is 7054 sq. m. The site houses three horizons of archaeological materials associated with Layers 1.1, 1.2 and 2.1. The maximu...

We present the high-quality genome sequence of a 45,000-year-old modern human male from Siberia. This individual derives from a population that lived before—or simultaneously with—the separation of the populations in western and eastern Eurasia and carries a similar amount of Neanderthal ancestry as present-day Eurasians. However, the genomic segme...

1999–2002 гг. и 2013 г. дали возможность провести антропологический и генетический анализ мумифицированных останков погребенных, изучить одежду и погребальный обряд средневекового населения Северного Приобья. Благодаря комплексным исследованиям, в полевом сезоне 2013 г. удалось впервые на данном памятнике зафиксировать женские захоронения, которые...

1 (IV–VI вв. н.э.), относящегося к бакальской культуре, обнаружены останки ребенка 8–10 лет с признаками преднаме-ренной деформации черепа, преждевременной облитерацией сагиттального шва и трепанационным отверстием на левой теменной кости. Данное сочетание указывает на применение трепанации с целью излечения либо облегчения состояния ребенка, возмо...

2011]. Они дают возможность анализировать и реконструировать такую сторону традиционной культуры, как погребальный обряд [Татаурова, 2010], проводить антро-пологические [Багашев, Антонов, 2005] и палеопатологические исследования. Результаты этих исследований в совокупности с данными археологии, этнографии, геохимии, геологии, палео-демографии, знан...