MAGAS, 7 July. / TASS /. Archaeologists in Ingushetia, as part of an anthropological expedition in 2021, discovered on the territory of a medieval tower village the skull of a woman who had undergone trepanning, Umalat Gadiev, deputy head of the EI Krupnov Archaeological Center, told TASS.
“On the territory of medieval crypts in the architectural complex of Kyakhk, we found a woman's skull with traces of trepanation. The work of surgeons is of a fairly high level. Anthropologists who work with us, and who know Caucasian materials very well, declare that this is the first such case in their practice,” said Gadiev …
According to him, the found remains must be examined to compile a complete picture. As TASS was told by the press service of the Dzurdzuki Historical and Geographical Society, the find was made as part of the second paleoanthropological expedition, in which, in addition to archaeologists, employees of the Center for Physical Anthropology of the Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology. N.N. Miklouho-Maclay of the Russian Academy of Sciences, as well as the scientific research organization SPC “Eureka”.
“The main task of this expedition is to study the anthropological composition of the medieval population of the foothill and mountainous Ingushetia, to establish the similarity or difference between the inhabitants of different gorges and with the population of neighboring territories. The plans also include the reconstruction of the appearance of the medieval Ingush from different mountain gorges, paleogenetic studies, and preparation of a monograph dedicated to the anthropology of the medieval population of Ingushetia, “the press service added.
The medieval architectural complex Kyakhk is located in the mountainous Dzheyrakh region of Ingushetia and dates back to the 16th-17th centuries. It consisted of two residential towers, as well as a semi-combat and combat towers.
