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Bronze Age steppe populations are often imagined as a single, uniform “type.” But the skeletal record tells a more complex story. This short documentary compares facial reconstructions associated with Khvalynsk, Catacomb, and Yamnaya contexts of the Pontic–Caspian steppe. Using osteologically grounded reconstructions, it highlights variation in craniofacial robusticity, from more gracile to more robust individuals, within populations that shared geography, economy, and cultural horizons. While m
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