According to the results of both analyses, the Mamisondon people are autochthonous, possibly with some admixture from the Alans. <...> Our data suggest that Adygeis are the most similar to Mamisondon people among the modern groups. <...> The specifi c position of Mamisondon on CV 3 shows that random microevolutionary processes were an important factor in the population history of this group possibly due to its geographic isolation. <...> Key words: North Caucasus, Alan Culture, Middle ages, craniometry, nonmetric cranial traits Contact information: Berezina Natalia, e-mail: berezina.natalia@gmail.com. <...> NEW DATA ON A MEDIEVAL COPTIC POPULATION OF DAIR AL-BANAT, THE FAYOUM OASIS, EGYPT Borutskaya Svetlana Department of Anthropology, Biological Faculty, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia The medieval site of Dair al-Banat is situated in the Eastern part of the Fayoum governorate in a deserted area about 2 km from the monastery of Dair al-Malak. <...> All female long bones from that cemetery were very gracile and so were all male arm bones. <...> Most male femora and tibiae were gracile, but some were very robust. <...> Also, we studied limb proportions of males and females. <...> All female arm bones and some male arm bones have weak muscular attachments. <...> In certain men the insertion areas of the following arm muscles were well developed: tuberositas deltoidea, cristae tuberculi majoris and minoris, tuberositas ulnae, tuberositas radii and supinator relief. <...> The leg bones of most individuals showed well developed attachment sites for muscles such as tuberositas glutea, linea intertrochanterica, trochanter major, epicondili medialis and lateralis femoris, tuberositas tibiae, and linea musculi solei. <...> We conclude that people of Dair al-Banat spent much time walking. <...> The typical postcranial pathology is the osteoporosis of long bones. <...> Key words: physical anthropology, osteology, muscular attachments, Egypt, Copts Contact information: Borutskaya Svetlana, e-mail: borsbor@yandex.ru. <...> COMPOSITE PORTRAITS OF SOUTHERN SINAI BEDOUINS Chumakova Anna1 , Maurer Andrey1 , Kobyliansky Eugene2 1Research Institute and Museum of Anthropology, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia 2 Department of Anatomy and Anthropology, Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv <...>