scholarly journals THE EARLY BRONZE AGE SETTLEMENT AND THE GRAVE NEAR THE VILLAGE OF STAROTITAROVSKAYA, THE KRASNODAR REGION AND BURIAL DISCOVERED AT THE SITE

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
С.Н. Кореневский ◽  
Ш.О. Давудов
Keyword(s):  
Bronze Age ◽  
Young Woman ◽  
Local Population ◽  
Mineral Admixture ◽  
Early Bronze Age ◽  
Flat Bottom ◽  
Mineral Inclusions ◽  
Krasnodar Region ◽  
Funerary Rites ◽  
The Village

В статье представлена публикация новых находок эпохи раннего бронзового века на поселении у станицы Старотитаровской Краснодарского края. Культурный слой поселения плохо выражен и нарушен поселением античного времени. К эпохе раннего бронзового века относится обломок каменного топора, кремневая пластина, несколько сосудов с формовочной массой без минеральных примесей и с минеральными примесями. Судя по ним, поселение датируется концом IV тыс. до н. э. Среди форм керамики присутствуют сосуды с круглым и плоским дном. В яме 58 Б расчищены 4 скелета людей: трех мужчин и юной женщины. Эти находки ставят вопрос об особых формах погребальной обрядности у местного населения и их соотнесения с погребальными традициями майкопской культуры. The paper publishes new Early Bronze Age finds excavated at the settlement near the village of Starotitarovskaya in the Krasnodar region. The cultural attribution of the occupation layer of the settlement is not easily identifiable it was strongly disturbed by a settlement dating to the Classical period. A fragment of a stone shaft hole axe, a retouched flint blade and several vessels made from clay tempered with mineral admixture and clay tempered without mineral inclusions were dated to the Early Bronze Age. Based on these finds, the settlement was attributed to the end of the 4th mill. BC. Pottery finds include several vessels with a round and flat bottom. Four skeletons were discovered in pit 58 B: skeletons of three males and a skeleton of one young woman. These finds raise an issue of special forms of funerary rites practiced by the local population and their correlation with funerary traditions of the Majkop culture.

The Excavation of Cairns at Blawearie, Old Bewick, Northumberland

1996 ◽  
Vol 62 ◽  
pp. 255-274
Author(s):  
Ian Hewitt ◽  
Stan Beckensall ◽  
J. Gale ◽  
J. Turner ◽  
S. Nye
Keyword(s):  
Bronze Age ◽  
Early Bronze Age ◽  
Funerary Rites ◽  
Prime Function

Blawearie Cairn was first excavated by Canon William Greenwell in 1865. His findings indicated that the cairn was a cist cemetery of the Early Bronze Age. Recent excavation has demonstrated that the cairn was originally a kerb circle and that funerary rites were not necessarily its prime function.

Archaeological investigations of the Early Bronze Age burial site QA1 at Wadi al-Fajj in northern Oman: Results of the 2016 season

2018 ◽  
Vol 26 (1) ◽  
pp. 521-539
Author(s):  
Łukasz Rutkowski
Keyword(s):  
Bronze Age ◽  
Skeletal Remains ◽  
Early Bronze Age ◽  
Burial Site ◽  
Joint Project ◽  
Ground Plan ◽  
Pottery Sherds ◽  
The Village

The first excavation season of a joint project of the PCMA and Department of Archaeology and Excavations, Ministry of Heritage and Culture, Oman, was carried out in the microregion of Qumayrah in the fall of 2016. A single tomb was investigated at an Umm an-Nar period burial site in the area of the village of Al-Ayn. A complete ground-plan was traced, identifying the tomb as an example of a well-known type with interior divided into four burial chambers by crosswalls. The excavated quadrant yielded commingled skeletal remains and mortuary gifts: numerous beads, a number of pottery sherds and a single complete vessel, a few metal objects and a score of stone vessel fragments.

scholarly journals THE FLESH-HOOK FEATURING A SCENE OF FIST FIGHTING FROM A MAIKOP CULTURE DOLMEN NEAR THE VILLAGE OF TSARSKAYA IN THE NORTHWEST CAUCASUS

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
В.А. Трифонов ◽  
Н.И. Шишлина ◽  
А.Ю. Лобода ◽  
В.А. Хвостиков
Keyword(s):  
Bronze Age ◽  
Comprehensive Analysis ◽  
Early Bronze Age ◽  
The Caucasus ◽  
Early Dynastic ◽  
Western Asia ◽  
The World ◽  
Temple Art ◽  
The Village ◽  
Portable Art

В статье приведены результаты всестороннего анализа уникального бронзового крюка с антропоморфными фигурками из дольмена эпохи ранней бронзы (прибл. 3200–2900 до н. э.) у ст. Царская (совр. Новосвободная) на Северо-Западном Кавказе. Установлено, что предмет отлит из мышьяковой бронзы по технологии утрачиваемой восковой модели, является крюком для вынимания мяса из котла и входит в набор церемониальной посуды для общественной трапезы. Изображения пары обнаженных мужчин, стоящих в боксерской стойке, представляют сцену ритуального поединка в присутствии или в честь божества, чьим атрибутом являются бычьи рога, на которых соперники стоят. Предмет в целом ассоциируется с темой погребального пира и погребальных игр. Вероятно, что сюжет и иконография изображений восходят к канонам храмового шумерского искусства раннединастического, а возможно, и более раннего времени. Адаптация этой темы в майкопской культурной среде объясняется ее принадлежностью к кругу культур самой северной периферии переднеазиатской цивилизации. Пара фигур, изображенная на крюке из Царской, является самым ранним образцом антропоморфной металлической мелкой пластики на Кавказе и, видимо, самым ранним в мире скульптурным изображением кулачного поединка. The paper reports on the results of comprehensive analysis of a unique bronze flesh-hook featuring anthropomorphic figures from an Early Bronze Age dolmen (ca. 3200–2900 BC) near the village of Tsarskaya (contemporary Novosvobodnaya) in the Northwest Caucasus (fig. 1). It was established that the flesh-hook was cast from arsenical bronze with the use of the lost wax method and was used to take meat out of a cauldron and, therefore, it entered a ceremonial table-ware set used in public feasts. The depicted pair of naked men in boxing stand (fig. 2; 3) represents a scene of ritual fight in the presence of or in honor of a deity whose attribute are bull horns (fig. 4), on which fighters are standing. As a whole, the item is associated with the theme of a funeral feast and funeral games. The narrative scene and iconography of the images are likely to have its roots in the canons of Sumerian temple art of the Early Dynastic period and, probably, even of the earlier time (fig. 5). The adaptation of this narrative to the Maikop cultural milieu is explained by its attribution to the circle of cultures located in the northernmost periphery of the Western Asia civilization. Two figures depicted on the Tsarskaya fleshhook represent the earliest example of anthropomorphic portable art in the Caucasus and the earliest sculptural image of fist fighting in the world.

The Ezero Mound in South-East Bulgaria

Antiquity ◽  
1966 ◽  
Vol 40 (157) ◽  
pp. 33-37 ◽  
Author(s):  
G. I. Georgiev ◽  
N. J. Merpert
Keyword(s):  
Bronze Age ◽  
Eastern Mediterranean ◽  
Open Water ◽  
Early Bronze Age ◽  
Important Data ◽  
Settlement Site ◽  
South Eastern Europe ◽  
A Site ◽  
The Village ◽  
The Bronze Age

Very little work has so far been done on the Bronze Age in South-East Bulgaria. This is an area which is of the greatest importance in the prehistory of South-Eastern Europe, a fact which has been often stressed by archaeologists working in the Eastern Mediterranean [I]. Geographically linked closely to Asia Minor and the Mediterranean lands, and especially to the Troad, South-East Bulgaria should provide important data for the establishment of relations between these lands in the Bronze Age. With these aims in mind the village settlement of Ezero, a site which even before excavation was obviously one of many periods, presented itself clearly as a place for excavation. Ezero, also known as Dipsis, is 3 km. south-east of Nova Zagora: it is not far from the well-known settlement site of Karanovo and 24 km. from the Azmak mound described in a recent number of this journal [2]. Preliminary excavations carried out from 1952-8 at Ezero showed that the settlement had a great thickness of occupation levels dating from the Early Bronze Age. Systematic excavation was restarted in 1961 and continued in 1963 and 1964.The site is bordered by swampy ground and large open water-meadows. The damp, easily worked soil was well suited to primitive agriculture, and the meadows to stock-rearing.

Archaeological Investigation of the “Lozianska Mogila” Barrow located near the Village of Boyanovo, Municipality of Elkhovo, in South-eastern Bulgaria

2015 ◽  
Vol 90 (1-2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniela Agre
Keyword(s):  
Bronze Age ◽  
Iron Age ◽  
Early Bronze Age ◽  
Stratigraphic Sequence ◽  
Archaeological Investigation ◽  
Relative Chronology ◽  
Middle Bronze Age ◽  
Burial Rites ◽  
Bronze Ancien ◽  
The Village

Es werden die Ergebnisse der Ausgrabung an einem Grabhügel „Lozianska Mogila” in den Jahren 2007 und 2009 vorgestellt. Insgesamt 21 Gräber wurden darin entdeckt, die sich auf drei stratigraphische Schichten verteilten. Der erste Hügel barg zehn Bestattungen, die in die frühe Bronzezeit datieren. Vier Gräber wurden während der mittleren Bronzezeit in diesen Hügel eingelassen. Über sie wurde eine weitere, die zweite Aufschüttung errichtet. In sie wurden die weiteren sechs mittelbronzezeitlichen Gräber eingetieft. Eine längere Zeit wurde der Grabhügel danach nicht mehr belegt. Erst in der Eisenzeit wurde ein weiteres Grab errichtet, das mit einer dritten und letzten Aufschüttung überdeckt wurde. Jede Bestattung wird innerhalb eines Kataloges in dem Artikel beschrieben.Die Kennzeichen der Bestattungssitten und der Grabkonstruktionen werden zusammen mit den Beigaben getrennt für die frühe und die mittlere Bronzezeit besprochen. Von besonderem Interesse ist dieCet article présente les résultats de fouilles entreprises en 2007 et 2009 dans le tumulus de « Lozianska Mogila » sur le territoire de la Bulgarie moderne. Vingt-etune sépultures et trois niveaux stratigraphiques ont été découverts. Le tumulus le plus ancien contenait dix sépultures du Bronze Ancien. Quatre sépultures du Bronze Moyen ont été insérées dans ce tumulus. Un second niveau a recouvert ces quatre sépultures et six autres sépultures du Bronze Moyen ont taillé ce niveau. Une sépulture datant de l’âge du Fer fut ajoutée après une longue période d’abandon et ensuite recouverte d’une troisième et dernière couche de terre. Chaque ensemble funéraire fait l’objet d’une description détaillée et les aspects caractéristiques des sépultures du Bronze Ancien et Moyen, leur construction, les rites funéraires ainsi que l’inventaire du mobilier sont présentés. Une datation radiocarbone obtenue pour la tombe no. 14 est d’intérêt particulier : une date de 2888–2676 cal BC nous permet de l’attribuer à la phase Bronze Ancien II (en termes de chronologie relative bulgare). Nous accordons aussi une attention particulière à la dernière sépulture du tumulus, datée de la première moitié du IVe siècle av. J.-C. sur la base de trouvailles semblables en Bulgarie méridionale.The results of excavations in 2007 and 2009 of the “Lozianska Mogila” barrow in present-day Bulgaria are presented here. Twenty-one graves were discovered in the barrow and a stratigraphic sequence of three layers was observed. The earliest barrow contained ten graves dated to the Early Bronze Age. Four burials of the Middle Bronze Age were dug into this early tumulus. A second layer was then heaped on these four graves and six other graves dating to the Middle Bronze Age were cut into it. After a longer period of disuse another grave was built in the Iron Age and then covered by the third and last layer. The article contains a detailed description of each grave complex. Characteristic aspects of the burial rites and grave construction as well as the inventory of the Early and Middle Bronze Age complexes are discussed in turn. The radiocarbon date obtained for grave no. 14, with a time span of 2888–2676 cal BC is of particular interest and corresponds to its archaeological attribution to the Early Bronze Age II (in terms of Bulgarian relative chronology). Special attention is also given to the latest grave in the barrow, which parallels in southern Bulgaria would date to the first half of the 4

Excavations at Hacılar, First Preliminary Report

1958 ◽  
Vol 8 ◽  
pp. 127-156 ◽  
Author(s):  
James Mellaart
Keyword(s):  
Bronze Age ◽  
Preliminary Report ◽  
River Valley ◽  
Early Bronze Age ◽  
The South ◽  
Entire Surface ◽  
Main Road ◽  
South West ◽  
Antique Dealer ◽  
The Village

The village of Hacilar is situated in the Vilayet of Burdur in South-west Anatolia, about 25 km. west of Burdur itself on the main road to Yeşilova and Denizli. The chalcolithic site lies about 1·5 km. west of the village and just beyond the orchards, which are irrigated by a plentiful spring at the foot of a great limestone crag which overlooks the village. It is this spring which since neolithic times has been the main reason for more or less continuous occupation in this region. Apart from the neolithic and early chalcolithic site at Hacılar there is a large Early Bronze Age mound on the northern outskirts and a classical site to the south-west of the village.The prehistoric site is an inconspicuous mound, about 150 metres in diameter, rising to a height of not more than 1·50 m. above the level of the surrounding fields (Fig. 1 and Pl. XXIXa). The entire surface of the mound is under cultivation and a series of depressions show the holes made by a local antique-dealer in search of painted pots and small objects. About 1 km. west of the site runs the Koca Çay, the ancient Lysis, and on the eastern scarp of this river valley lies the cemetery of the Early Bronze Age settlement. Not a single burial has yet been found in the chalcolithic or neolithic levels of our site and it is therefore not unreasonable to suggest that its cemetery also may eventually be located there.

scholarly journals Burial Rites at the Frontovoye 3 Cemetery in the Southwest Crimea

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
А.Н. Свиридов ◽  
С.В. Язиков
Keyword(s):  
Bronze Age ◽  
The Crimea ◽  
Burial Rites ◽  
Funerary Rites ◽  
Academy Of Sciences ◽  
The Village ◽  
The Bronze Age ◽  
Percentage Ratio ◽  
Central Crimea ◽  
Burial Rite

Статья посвящена характеристике погребального обряда могильника Фронтовое 3, расположенного в 1 км к СЗЗ от с. Фронтовое Нахимовского р на г. Севастополь и полностью исследованного отрядом Крымской новостроечной экспедиции ИА РАН в 2018 г. Вскрыто 13 948 кв. м раскопано 328 погребений конца I IV в. н. э. и 4 эпохи бронзы, в т. ч. 305 подбойных могил, 12 грунтовых склепов, 7 грунтовых ям, 1 погребение в амфоре, 1 захоронение лошади и 2 собаки. Среди особенностей могильника следует выделить значительное преобладание подбойных могил, ориентировку погребенных в юго восточный сектор, присутствие особого типа кремационных погребений, а также соотношение погребальной камеры с входной ямой в грунтовых склепах. Прослеженные на памятнике обряды имеют аналогии в ряде памятников Юго Западного и Центрального Крыма, но сочетание типов обряда и их процентное соотношение во Фронтовом своеобразно. This paper reports on characteristics of funerary rites at Frontovoye 3, which is a cemetery located one kilometer north northwest of the village of Frontovoye in the Nakhimovsky district of Sevastopol which was fully examined by a team of the Crimea salvage expedition of the Institute of Archaeology, Russian Academy of Sciences, in 2018. The area of 13,948 sq. m was excavated 328 graves dating to the end of the 1st 4th centuries and four graves of the Bronze Age, including 305 niche graves, 12 ground vaulted graves, 7 pit graves, 1 jar burial in an amphora, 1 horse grave and 2 dog graves were investigated. The cemetery is characterized by predominance of niche graves, orientation of the deceased to the southeast, presence of a special type of cremated burials and correlation between the burial chamber and the entrance pit in ground vaulted graves. The rites identified at the site have analogies in a number of sites located in the Southwest and Central Crimea however, the combination of the types of burial rite and their percentage ratio at Frontovoye is quite distinctive.

Early Complexes of the Tract “First and Second Island” near the Village of Tanatovо

2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (4 (28)) ◽  
pp. 131-139
Author(s):  
Sergei F. Tataurov ◽  
Irina V. Tolpeko
Keyword(s):  
Bronze Age ◽  
Iron Ore ◽  
Raw Materials ◽  
Stone Tools ◽  
Early Bronze Age ◽  
Late Neolithic ◽  
High Quality ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Village

As part of the study of the early stages of settlement of the Middle Irtysh region, the multilayered monuments of the tract “First and Second island” near the village of Tanatovо, Muromtsevsky district of Omsk region. Based on the study of ceramics and stone tools, complexes of the late Neolithic - early bronze age belonging to the artyn and Catherine cultures and the Stepanov type of monuments were identified. Specific features of stone processing are described for each stage. Artyn stone processing was characterized by high-quality raw materials and the technique of chipping plates. At the stage of Catherine's culture, the quality of raw materials significantly deteriorates, and the use of local raw materials (swamp iron ore) is noted. In stone processing, there is an increase in the share the technique of chipping flakes. At all stages, the tendency to minimize the impact of the shortage of stone raw materials is well recorded.

scholarly journals The Main Results of Studies of the Archaeological Complex Kastyki in the Upper Reaches of the Viliya (Minsk Region of the Republic of Belarus)

2021 ◽  
pp. 391-416
Author(s):  
Н. А. Плавинский
Keyword(s):  
Bronze Age ◽  
Archaeological Sites ◽  
Early Bronze Age ◽  
Late Neolithic ◽  
The Third ◽  
The Republic ◽  
Funerary Rites

Целью публикации является анализ основных результатов раскопок комплекса археологических памятников Костыки Вилейского района Минской области, проводившихся в 1973, 2016 и 2018 гг. Комплекс археологических памятников Костыки состоит из курганного могильника древнерусского времени Костыки и многокультурного открытого поселения Костыки II. Некрополь в Костыках функционировал на протяжении середины XI - XII в. Он принадлежал группе жителей Полоцкой земли, которые имели определенное представление о христианской погребальной обрядности. Многокультурное поселение Костыки II функционировало от эпохи позднего неолита и начала эпохи бронзы до третьей четверти I тысячелетия н. э. The publication's purpose is the analysis of the main results of archaeological sites' excavations in Kastyki, Viliejka district, Minsk region, carried out in 1973, 2016 and 2018. The complex of archaeological monuments of Kastyki consists of the Kastyki barrow cemetery of Old Rus' period and the multicultural open settlement of Kastyki II. The necropolis in Kastyki functioned throughout the middle of the 11 - 12 centuries. It belonged to a group of Polotsk land residents who had some perspective of Christian funerary rites. The multicultural settlement Kastyki II functioned from the late Neolithic and early Bronze Age to the third quarter of the 1st millennium AD.

Report on Excavations at the Toumba of Saratsé, Macedonia, 1929

1930 ◽  
Vol 30 ◽  
pp. 113-150 ◽  
Author(s):  
W. A. Heurtley ◽  
C. A. Ralegh Radford
Keyword(s):  
Bronze Age ◽  
Early Bronze Age ◽  
Neolithic Age ◽  
The Village ◽  
Neolithic Pottery

In accordance with the plan to explore a representative mound in each area of Central Macedonia, the Toumba of Saratsé was selected as occupying a key position in the group of mounds that lies in the region of Lakes Lankadás and Beshik. Prehistoric finds in this district have so far been represented by the neolithic pottery from above the village of Aïváte (now Léte), which lies at the foot of the hills, by the entrance to the Dervéni Pass, and by surface finds from mounds at Drymínklava (now Drymós), and elsewhere. It was hoped that a deposit might possibly be found at Saratsé which would throw some light on certain obscure points of the Macedonian Neolithic Age. No such deposit was found, and only some half-dozen neolithic sherds (all except one, unstratified), but a sequence of pottery from the Early Bronze Age onwards was obtained, which makes it possible to place the site, and by inference the area, in relation to the rest of Central Macedonia and to Chalcidice.

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