Ethic anthropology of kazakh people and the sources of its formation

Since 1958 up to 2007 in the Institute the first systematical and large-scale anthropological research of the ancient and modern population of Kazakhstan carried out within the wide chronological frames from the Bronze Age (XX c. B.C.) including the contemporaneity.

According to the obtained complex of the morpho-physiological and population-genetic data studied on all chapters of Physical Anthropology the modern Kazakhs have mixed racial type taking up the intermediate position between the proper Mongoloid and Europoid races of Eurasia. At that the Kazakh population has quite independent, indivisible and clearly defined anthropological status among the racial types of Eurasia.

The ratio of the relative portion of two components in the anthropological type of Kazakh population is following: the Mongoloid features amount 70 % and Europoid ones are 30 %. At that according to the morphological peculiarities the Europoid features are more archaic going back to the physical appearance of the Kazakhstan inhabitants of Bronze Age (XX-IX cc. B.C.) which characterized by the exceptionally ancient Europoid features and formed the anthropological basis for the populations of further historical periods. As to the Mongoloid features inhered to the modern Kazakhs its were brought by the representatives of the Central Asian racial type to the territory of ancient Kazakhstan beginning from Iron Age (VIII-IV cc. B.C.) as a result of the gradual and prolonged processes of race formation by means of the mixing.

This processes took a place exactly on the territory of Kazakhstan having large-scaled, determinative and gradual character prolonged for several millenniums beginning from the V c. B.C. and finished up to XV c. A.D. by the final formation of the racial type of Kazakh population and their ethnic consolidation. In accordance with anthropological data the Kazakhs represents the only local ethnic group with most ancient ethic-anthropological backgrounds on the territory of Kazakhstan which length is about 40 centuries.