scholarly journals New Data on Bone (Horn) Girth Buckles of the Bulan-Koby Culture of Altai (on the Materials of the Archaeological Complex Choburak-I)

2020 ◽  
pp. 106-113
Author(s):  
N.N. Seregin ◽  
A.A. Tishkin ◽  
S.S. Matrenin ◽  
T.S. Parshikova
Keyword(s):  
Middle Ages ◽  
Late Antiquity ◽  
Morphological Features ◽  
Special Design ◽  
Altai Republic ◽  
Early Middle Ages ◽  
Archaeological Materials ◽  
Comprehensive Study

The article publishes a series of bone (horn) girth buckles from the necropolis of the Rouran time of the Choburak-I archaeological complex, located in the Chemal district of the Altai Republic. The authors present a detailed description of the main morphological features of six well-preserved products which were found in four male (mounds №30a, 31, 32, 34a) and two female (mounds №32a, 34) burials with a riding horse. The classification of published girth buckles made it possible to divide them into three types. The dated analogies of the considered finds from the Altai complexes dating back to the 4th-5th centuries AD are presented. For the studied specimens, general and special design details were revealed in comparison with the already known girth buckles from other sites of the Bulan-Koby culture of Altai. It was established that products from the Choburak-I complex demonstrate the development of local modifications of items of the group in question during the period of the Rouran Khaganate. Published archaeological materials expand the source base for a comprehensive study of the equipment of the riding horse of the Altai population at the turn of late Antiquity and early Middle Ages.

The Fate of Small Towns, Hilltop Settlements, and Elite Residences in Merovingian-Period Gaul

2020 ◽  
pp. 610-640
Author(s):  
Luc Bourgeois
Keyword(s):  
Middle Ages ◽  
Late Antiquity ◽  
Fourth Century ◽  
Small Towns ◽  
Seventh Century ◽  
Archaeological Research ◽  
Power Networks ◽  
Early Middle Ages ◽  
The Many

The study of places of power in the Merovingian realm has long been focused on cities, monasteries, and royal palaces. Recent archaeological research has led to the emergence of other categories. Four of them are addressed in this chapter. These include the capitals of fallen cities, which continue to mark the landscape in one way or another. Similarly, the fate of small Roman towns during the early Middle Ages shows that most of them continued to host a variety of secular and ecclesiastical powers. In addition, from the fourth century onward, large hilltop fortified settlements multiplied anew. They complemented earlier networks of authority, whether elite residences, artisan communities, or real towns. Finally, from the seventh century onward, the great aristocratic villas of late antiquity were transformed into settlements organized around one or more courtyards and supplemented by funerary and religious structures. The evolution of political spaces and lifestyles explains both the ruptures in power networks that occurred during the Merovingian epoch and the many continuities that can be seen in the four kinds of places studied in this chapter that were marked by these developments.

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