Height among population of Baraba forest-steppe in bronze age (after materials of Sopka 2 site)

The article presents generalized results of study, devoted to variability of anthropological distinctions of postcranial bones in paleoanthropological series of archaeological culture, related to Early and developed Bronze Age and received in the burials of Sopka 2 necropolis in Baraba forest-steppe. Absolute quantity, proportions, marks of motor asymmetry of parts of postcranial skeleton are the important source of data on human adaptation to environment. We put a greater emphasis on the height as a generalized mark of longitudinal dimension of skeletal bones. It was determined that body proportions are generally mesomorphic in all group. It characterizes the adaptive complex of population in middle latitudes. From perspective of height, the sexual dimorphism come under notice, which increased over the shortening of bodies in female groups of two cultural chronological complexes - Ust-Tartas and late Krotovo culture. Thus, noticeable and directional changes in the physical status of the skeleton affected the female populations in the territory of Baraba during the Bronze Age. Complex of factors that led to alimentary stress, can explain the shortening of the body at the current proportions of the female skeletons in Ust-Tartas and late Krotovo cultures. These observations allow for the conclusions about the dominance of the indigenous anthropological component and maximal participation of endogenous factor of autochthonous origin in adaptogenesis, as well as about extenuation of stressful situation during developed Bronze Age.