scholarly journals Numerical Verification of the Wooden Structure of Fortified Settlement from the Early Iron Age in Biskupin

2018 ◽  
Vol 64 (4) ◽  
pp. 233-245
Author(s):  
Wojciech Terlikowski ◽  
Martyna Gregoriou-Szczepaniak ◽  
Ewa Sobczyńska ◽  
Kacper Wasilewski
Keyword(s):  
Iron Age ◽  
Numerical Models ◽  
Interdisciplinary Team ◽  
Archaeological Site ◽  
Early Iron Age ◽  
Structural Systems ◽  
Numerical Verification ◽  
University Of Technology ◽  
National Heritage ◽  
The Individual

AbstractBiskupin is one of the most recognizable archaeological site in Pola1nd and Central Europe. The origins of the excavations dates back to year 1934 and had lasted almost continuously until 1974. In the framework of the grant from the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage interdisciplinary team of scientists from Archaeological Museum in Biskupin and Warsaw University of Technology performed multi-dimensional analysis of the settlement. Based on the integrated vector documentation, resulting from the photographic documentation, numerical models of structural systems of main types of buildings and defensive rampart were prepared. The aim of the analysis was a verification of the earlier findings of archaeological and architectural researches. The analysis allowed to verify both the arrangement of individual parts of structure of buildings, their work and the interconnection, as well as the possible dimensions of the individual components.

scholarly journals Objects with Attitude: Biographical Facts and Fallacies in the Study of Late Bronze Age and Early Iron Age Warrior Graves

2002 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 217-232 ◽  
Author(s):  
James Whitley
Keyword(s):  
Bronze Age ◽  
Iron Age ◽  
Social Identities ◽  
Early Iron Age ◽  
Late Bronze Age ◽  
Cultural Changes ◽  
Or Practice ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Burial Rituals

Aegean prehistory still has to deal with the legacy of ‘Homeric archaeology’. One of these legacies is the ‘warrior grave’, or practice of burying individuals (men?) with weapons which we find both in the Late Bronze Age and the Early Iron Age in the Aegean. This article suggests that the differences between the ‘weapon burial rituals’ in these two periods can tell us much about the kind of social and cultural changes that took place across the Bronze Age/Iron Age ‘divide’ of c. 1100 BC. In neither period, however, can items deposited in ‘warrior graves’ be seen as straightforward biographical facts that tell us what the individual did and suffered in life. Rather, the pattern of grave goods should be seen as a metaphor for a particular kind of identity and ideal. It is only in the Early Iron Age that this identity begins to correspond to the concept of the ‘hero’ as described in the Iliad. One means towards our better understanding of this new identity is to follow up work in anthropology on the biography of objects. It is argued that the ‘life cycle’ of ‘entangled objects’, a cycle which ends in deposition in a grave, provides us with indispensable clues about the nature of new social identities in Early Iron Age Greece.

scholarly journals On the Study of Scythian Mobility Based on Paleoanthropological Materials

2020 ◽  
pp. 275-287
Author(s):  
Maria Dobrovolskaya ◽  
Semen Volodin
Keyword(s):  
Isotopic Composition ◽  
Bone Tissue ◽  
Iron Age ◽  
Tooth Enamel ◽  
Individual Variability ◽  
Early Iron Age ◽  
Population Mobility ◽  
Geochemical Parameters ◽  
Burial Mounds ◽  
The Individual

Introduction. The paper is about the study of the human skeletal remains isotopic composition from Middle Don burial mounds of the Scythian time to characterize the population mobility. Methods and materials. The materials from the monuments of Kolbino 1, Ternovoe 1, Gorki I, Devitsa V, Durovka are considered. Data on the isotopic composition of strontium enamel in teeth and bone tissue is used to estimate the mobility of the population. Information on the isotopic composition of bone carbon collagen and nitrogen is also used to reconstruct food models that reflect cultural traditions as well as environmental patterns. Analysis. Values of 87/86 Sr of bone and tooth enamel are considered as markers of an individuals stay at different ages in a territory similar or different by geochemical parameters to regional Middle Don. Data on the isotopic composition of nitrogen and carbon in bone tissue from the burial mounds are considered with broad comparative data of the steppe Eurasian population of the Early Iron Age. Results. The authors discuss carbon delta values marking the use of C4 type photosynthesis plants. Millet is this cultural plant in Eurasian history of the Early Iron Age. This plant is widely spread in all steppe and nomadic cultures. The individual variability of carbon delta of Middle Don population is increased compared to all others. There are individuals who differ from the majority in lower carbon deltas corresponding to the C3 type of photosynthesis. This feature is proposed to consider as an evidence of contacts with the territories with the antique agriculture traditions.

scholarly journals Mesolithic Sites in the Upper Tobol

2022 ◽  
Vol 23 (4) ◽  
pp. 897-910
Author(s):  
E. V. Podzuban
Keyword(s):  
Bronze Age ◽  
Iron Age ◽  
Raw Materials ◽  
Archaeological Site ◽  
Stone Tools ◽  
Early Iron Age ◽  
Forest Steppe ◽  
Arrow Head ◽  
Stone Industry ◽  
The Town

The article introduces prehistoric artifacts from the sites of Karasor-5, Karasor-6, and Karasor-7 obtained in 1998. The archaeological site of Karasor is located in the Upper Tobol region, near the town of Lisakovsk. Stone tools, pottery fragments, a ceramic item, and a bronze arrow head were collected from a sand blowout, which had destroyed the cultural layer. The paper gives a detailed description of the pottery. The stone tools were examined using the technical and typological analysis, which featured the primary splitting, the morphological parameters and size of plates, the ratio of blanks, plates, flakes, and finished tools, the secondary processing methods, and the typological composition of the tools. The nature of the raw materials was counted as an independent indicator. The pottery fragments, the bronze arrow head, and the ceramic item belonged to the Bronze Age and the Early Iron Age. The stone industry of the Karasor archeological cluster proved to be a Mesolithic monument of the Turgai Trough. The technical and typological analysis revealed a close similarity with the Mesolithic sites of the Southern and Middle Trans-Urals, as well as the forest-steppe part of the Tobol-Irtysh interfluve. The stone artifacts were dated from the Mesolithic to the Early Iron Age.

scholarly journals The Dating and Interpretation of a Field Wall in Öggestorp

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 43-60
Author(s):  
Leif Häggström ◽  
Joanna Baran ◽  
Alf Eriksson ◽  
Andrew Murray
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
Middle Ages ◽  
Iron Age ◽  
Archaeological Site ◽  
Optically Stimulated Luminescence ◽  
Early Iron Age ◽  
Modern Times ◽  
Current State ◽  
Early Modern Times ◽  
Contextual Meaning

The interpretation of the use and contextual meaning of fossil agrarian forms is connected with their age. In this article we discuss the dating and interpretation of a field wall in Öggestorp, situated on the northern rim of the southern Swedish uplands in the province of Småland. Öggestorp is a complex archaeological site dating from the early Iron Age (500 BC to AD 550). The site was also used for various forms of agriculture during the Middle Ages and in early modern times, a fact which complicates the dating and the interpretation of the agrarian features. We discuss the possibility and practical issue of dating agrarian sediments by optically stimulated luminescence (OSL). By combining OSL and other methods, a reliable estimation of age can be established. The paper also deals with the possible implications of the OSL-method in relation to the current state of knowledge of agrarian structures. We show that a serious dating of agricultural remains must be based upon a critically used combination ofmethods. Without a well-argued date, it is difficult to relate any agrarian form chronologically to other remains in a fossil landscape of multilayered complexity.

scholarly journals Results of field research of the settlement Firsovo-15 in 2020

2021 ◽  
Vol 16 ◽  
pp. 66-71
Author(s):  
I. A. Valkov ◽  
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V. O. Saibert ◽  
V. E. Alekseeva ◽  
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...  
Keyword(s):  
Bronze Age ◽  
Iron Age ◽  
Field Research ◽  
Archaeological Site ◽  
Early Iron Age ◽  
Neolithic Period ◽  
Emergency Condition ◽  
Historical Processes ◽  
First Time ◽  
The Bronze Age

The article is devoted to the results of field research in the autumn of 2020 at the settlement Firsovo-15. This archaeological site located in the in the Upper Ob region. The studied settlement complexes are mainly correlated with the Andronovo and Irmen cultures of the Bronze Age, as well as the Staroaleisk culture of the early Iron Age. For the first time, artifacts dating back to the Neolithic period were discovered on the settlement. The emergency condition of the settlement and the significant value of the materials obtained for the reconstruction of cultural and historical processes on the territory of the Upper Ob region allow us to consider the settlement Firsovo-15 promising for further research.

scholarly journals The Post-dolmen Horizon in the Northwest Caucasus

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
В.Р. Эрлих
Keyword(s):  
Bronze Age ◽  
Iron Age ◽  
Archaeological Site ◽  
Early Iron Age ◽  
Late Bronze Age ◽  
Terminal Stage ◽  
The Bronze Age

Статья посвящена предварительной публикации археологического комплекса Шушук в Майкопском районе Республики Адыгея. Открытые в результате охранно-спасательных работ погребения и слой поселения пока не имеют близких аналогий на Северо-Западном Кавказе. Данный памятник относится к периоду между дольменной культурой эпохи средней и поздней бронзы и протомеотской группой памятников эпохи раннего железа. Автор предлагает для памятников данного типа термин «постдольменный горизонт», относит их к эпохе финальной бронзы и предварительно датирует в пределах второй половины II тыс. до н. э. The paper is devoted to preliminary publication of an archaeological site known as Shushuk in the Maykop district, Republic of Adygeya. In the course of rescue archaeological works graves and a cultural deposit of a settlement. At present no close analogies for the discovered site may be pointed to in the Northwest Caucuses. This site dates from the period between the dolmen culture of the Middle and Late Bronze Age and the proto-Maeotian group of sites of the Early Iron Age. The author suggests the following term to denote the sites of this type, namely, the post-dolmen horizon, and attributes them to the terminal stage of the Bronze Age (second half of II – beginning of I mill. BC).

scholarly journals Revisiting Prebuilding Dodona

2020 ◽  
Vol 47 ◽  
pp. 404-410
Author(s):  
Eleni Vasileiou
Keyword(s):  
Bronze Age ◽  
Iron Age ◽  
Archaeological Site ◽  
Early Iron Age ◽  
Late Bronze Age ◽  
Dispersed Information

The aim of this paper is to put together the currently dispersed information about the occurrence of architectural remains at the archaeological site of Dodona during the so-called prebuilding phase, mainly at the end of the Late Bronze Age-Beginning of Early Iron Age through the reports and diaries of the site’s excavators. Moreover, the combination of the architectural remains with the portable finds will lead to suggestions about the site’s character during late prehistory. Was it a humble village inhabited by stockbreeders, or a hypaethral sanctuary?

ARCHAEOLOGICAL MATERIAL PICKED UP NEAR KURLEK VILLAGE IN THE KRASNOGORSKY DISTRICT OF THE ALTAI TERRITORY

2021 ◽  
Vol 27 ◽  
pp. 310-315
Author(s):  
Tishkin A. ◽  
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Kazakov A. ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Iron Age ◽  
Social Groups ◽  
Archaeological Site ◽  
Early Iron Age ◽  
State University ◽  
Cultural Layer ◽  
Local Resident ◽  
Archaeological Material ◽  
Scientific Periodical ◽  
The Village

For many years, the Department of Archaeology, Ethnography and Museology of the Altai State University has been regularly receiving information about archaeological finds discovered in different circumstances in the Altai Territory, as well as in neighboring and remote regions. Such information is checked and followed by investigation. The results of constructive interaction have been reflected in publications, such as presented in a scientific periodical “Preservation and Study of the Cultural Heritage of Altai”. This article provides brief information about an archaeological site in critical condition due to the constant bank caving by the Isha River near the village of Kurlek in the Krasnogorsky District of the Altai Territory. In the summer of 2017, when fishing, a local resident collected fragments of ceramics and stones that fell from the cultural layer to the scree and river hirst. The collection reflects several cultural and chronological layers and requires special studying. It is important to identify a settlement of the Early Iron Age, which reflects one of historical stages in developing the northern Altai foothills by different social groups. Keywords: Altai Territory, Krasnogorsky District, Kurlek, Isha, archaeological site, early Iron Age, ceramics

scholarly journals Buried soils of the middle part Miklashevsky II settlement (Middle Volga region)

2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 228-239
Author(s):  
I.N. Spiridonova ◽  
S.P. Lomov
Keyword(s):  
Middle Ages ◽  
Iron Age ◽  
Soil Formation ◽  
Archaeological Site ◽  
Middle Part ◽  
Early Iron Age ◽  
Buried Soils ◽  
Early Middle Ages ◽  
Middle Volga Region ◽  
Natural Development

Maklasheevsky II settlement is a complex archaeological site, which includes settlements of the early Iron Age and the early Middle Ages, separated by more than six hundred years of natural development and transformation of anthropogenic structures. Maklasheevsky II ancient settlement is a remnant of a terrace 10 m high above the reservoir level and the defensive structures (3.0 m high) of the Early Iron Age and the early Middle Ages preserved on it. By origin, this object is a natural and anthropogenic geosystem. During the period of natural development of the middle part of the Maklasheevsky II settlement, soil formation prevailed on relatively flat surfaces and the formation of underdeveloped soils – sod-carbonate, subsequently buried by deluvium. In buried soils, an improvement in structure and water resistance is noticeable, up to a good estimate, in comparison with overlapping deluvium. In addition, there was an increase in the carbon content of humus by almost 1.5 times, the actual acidity decreased to neutral, the hydrolytic acidity increased, compared with overlapping deluvium.

scholarly journals RESCUE EXCAVATION OF THE ABAKAN-7 BURIAL GROUND IN 2018

2022 ◽  
pp. 37-42
Author(s):  
О.В. Ковалева ◽  
П.Б. Амзараков ◽  
П. М. Леус
Keyword(s):  
Urban Area ◽  
Iron Age ◽  
Archaeological Site ◽  
Early Iron Age ◽  
Burial Ground ◽  
Cultural Layer ◽  
Ceramic Vessels

Статья посвящена итогам исследований археологического памятника «Курганный могильник Абакан-7», проведенным в 2018 г. в рамках охранно - спасательных работ в центре г. Абакан. Несмотря на разрушение большей части культурного слоя, произошедшего в результате разновременного освоения городской территории, под техногенными напластованиями удалось обнаружить нетронутый участок, включавший частично сохранившийся курган раннего железного века с более поздним впускным погребением. В результате раскопок выявлены конструкции четырех погребений, содержавших 18 изделий из бронзы и кости (ножи, шилья, вток чекана, наконечник стрелы, украшения) и 8 фрагментарно сохранившихся керамических сосудов. Выявленный курган относится к подгороновскому этапу тагарской археологической культуры (8-9 вв. до н. э.), а впускное погребение - к тесинской археологической культуре (2-1 вв. до н. э.). The article is devoted to the results of the research of archaeological site “Abakan-7 burial ground”, which was conducted in 2018 within the rescue operations in the center of Abakan. Despite the destruction of most of the cultural layer, caused by the development of the urban area at diff erent times, under technogenic layers, researchers could fi nd an intact deposit, which included a partially preserved barrow of the Early Iron Age with a later inlet burial. As a result of the excavation, the structures of four burials were revealed, which contained 18 items made of bronze and bone (knives, awls, a handle spike of a pickaxe, arrowheads, jewelry) and 8 fragmentary preserved ceramic vessels. The discovered barrow belongs to the Podgornovo stage of the Tagar archaeological culture (8th-6th centuries BC), and the inlet burial belongs to the Tes archaeological culture (2nd-1st centuries BC).

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