KRIVICHI IN THE VALLEY OF THE VORYA RIVER ACCORDING TO ARCHAEOLOGICAL, ANTHROPOLOGICAL AND PALEO-DNA DATA

The work introduces into scientific circulation archaeological, anthropological and paleogenetic data on the population of the Krivichi of the middle course of the Vorya River (north-east of the Moscow Region). As the excavations of six burial grounds have shown, the settlement of the middle course of the Vorya River began at the end of the 11(th) century and was associated with the relocation of the inhabitants of the upper Klyazma, who had Krivichi roots and came from the upper Volga region and the Smolensk-Novgorod border area. This is evidenced by the dominance of wire bangle- shaped temporal rings in women's headdress in the burial grounds. The anthropological analysis of the studied group of Krivichi testifies to the influence of the Smolensk-Tver Krivichi population and the Vyatichi valley of the Moscow River on it. No connection has been found with the eastern Krivichi, influenced by the autochthonous East Finnish component. The study of the genetic heritage of the Krivichi of the Klyazma River basin, which had begun on the materials of the Bolshevo-1 burial ground of the first half of the 12(th) century, was continued. The male burial from the burial mound 2 of the Ostankino-2 burial mound was found to belong to the N1a Y-DNA haplogroup, the VL29-L1022 subclade characteristic of the Western Baltic-Finnish groups (in contrast to the L550 Baltic-Slavic subclades). The authors attribute this to the contacts of the Smolensk-Polotsk Krivichi with the Pskov Krivichi (9(th) - 10(th) centuries), who could have a share of the genetic heritage of the autochthonous population of the Pskov long barrows culture with its significant Baltic-Finnish element. This does not contradict the conclusions of the anthropological study.