scholarly journals CHRISTIAN BURIAL GROUND IN THE VILLAGE OF KHUNZAKH (BASED ON THE MATERIALS OF THE DAGESTAN-GEORGIAN JOINT ARCHAEOLOGICAL EXPEDITION)

2020 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 316-331
Author(s):  
Givi G. Gambashidze ◽  
Askerkhan K. Abiev
Keyword(s):  
Burial Ground ◽  
Cultural Layer ◽  
Early Christian ◽  
Archaeological Material ◽  
Funeral Rite ◽  
North Eastern ◽  
The Village ◽  
Eastern Wall ◽  
Oval Shape ◽  
Archaeological Excavations

The article introduces the materials of the archaeological excavations of the Dagestan-Georgian archaeological joint expedition on the identified Khunzakh burial ground in 1978-1979, located in the villages. Khunzakh, on the Khunzakh plateau (Republic of Dagestan). The hunzakh plateau is the Central part of the medieval state formations of Sarir and then the Avar Kingdom, which were the most important Christian centers of the Eastern Caucasus in the IX-XIII centuries.As a result of the work carried out, 11 burials were identified, Dating from the IX-XV centuries. All burials were covered with a cultural layer containing archaeological material of the XI-XIII centuries. The identified burials represent three types of funerary structures: 1) an elongated pit of sub-rectangular shape with rounded corners or elongated-oval shape; 2) elongated sub-rectangular pits, slightly tapering to the end North-Eastern wall (in the "legs"), with ledges-shoulders along the side longitudinal walls and with a sketch of their small stones above the pit; 3) elongated sub-rectangular pits, slightly tapering to the end North-Eastern wall (in the "legs"), with ledges-hangers around the perimeter of the pit. Ledges-hangers, obviously, were used for installation of overlappings from stone slabs or wooden planks. The funeral rite is generally monotonous and is characterized by the placement of corpses in elongated pits carved into the rock, with orientation along the Central axis along the line SVV-SWZ, with the position of the deceased stretched out on his back, head in the Western sector, more precisely on the SWZ, the absence of burial equipment. The main features of the funeral rite and Dating of the burial ground allow us to refer it to the number of early Christian monuments of Sarir and consider it as a monument reflecting the process of Christianization of the population of medieval Hunzakh.

scholarly journals POTTERY WORKSHOP OF MYKILSKA SLOBIDKA VILLAGE IN THE FIRST HALF OF THE 19th CENTURY (based on the latest archaeological excavations)

2018 ◽  
Vol 29 (4) ◽  
pp. 413-422
Author(s):  
A. M. Olenich ◽  
A. M. Olenich
Keyword(s):  
Urban Development ◽  
19Th Century ◽  
The Other ◽  
Cultural Layer ◽  
Pottery Production ◽  
Clay Deposits ◽  
The 19Th Century ◽  
The Village ◽  
Archaeological Excavations ◽  
Different Parts

The paper introduces materials from the archaeological excavations on the territory of the village of the 16th—19th centuries Mykilska Slobidka. The village has not been subject to systemic archaeological excavations before. In 2016—2018 we carried out the investigating in different parts of the village. It was fixed that despite the modern urban development, the cultural layer was preserved in some parts of the village. Obtaining materials indicate the existence of pottery production there. The most interesting is the ceramic collection associated with the pottery complex of the beginning of the 19th century. The collection allows us to characterize the assortment of the pottery manufacturing in the Mykilska Slobidka village in the first half of the 19th century. Among the typical products of the workshops were pots decorated with white and red engobe painting, jugs, bowls, lids, mugs, flowerpots, bricks and probably tiles etc. It is interesting that there are no pottery clay deposits in the vicinity of the village. So it is possibly the clay was brought from other villages, may be on the other (right) bank of the Dnieper River.

scholarly journals D. T. BEREZOVETS AND NETAILIVKA BURIAL GROUND OF SALTIV CULTURE: DISCOVERY, MODERN RESEARCHES, RESULTS

2021 ◽  
Vol 40 (3) ◽  
pp. 342-353
Author(s):  
V. S. Aksonov
Keyword(s):  
The Body ◽  
Burial Ground ◽  
Funeral Rite ◽  
The North ◽  
Natural Factors ◽  
Literary Sources ◽  
North Eastern ◽  
Ancient Times ◽  
Bulgarian Population ◽  
Made In

Peculiarity of the Netailivka burial ground, noted by its discoverer D. T. Berezovets, is the total predominance of burials where the bones of the buried people are completely absent. At the same time the burials often contain grave goods located in the places when the bodies of the deceased should have been lied. This fact allowed D. T. Berezovets to suppose that initially the burial was performed on the surface of the earth where the body was exposed to natural factors and only after that it was re-buried into a pit. However, the researches of recent years show that burials were made in full accordance with the funeral rite of the Proto-Bulgarian population of the Saltiv culture. The absence of human remains in most of the burial pits should be associated with the specific hydrological conditions prevailing at the site of the necropolis in the post-Saltiv period. In a number of burials of the burial ground the later activity in the burial pits, associated with ritual actions performed in ancient times, were recorded. These actions testify the existence of the so-called «final ceremony» among the Netailivka people, the holding of which meant the end of mourning for the deceased person and made the death of a relative complete and final for the living. The study of the chronological markers of the site made it possible to attribute the time of the burial ground to the stage of the formation of the Saltiv culture in the region and to date the earliest burials of the necropolis to the 740—790 AD. The set of decorations and brooches from early burials shows that the original area of the migration of this population was the North-Eastern Caucasus (the territory of modern Chechnya and Dagestan). The location of the horse remains in the burials of the horsemen indicates the mixed Turkic-Ugric character of the population, which was part of the tribal union of the «Bulgars». The date of the burial ground and the probable area of residence of the population which made it, allows us to identify the «Netailivka» people with the representatives of the nomadic Bulgar union known from literary sources as «Sabirs / Savirs»

scholarly journals Zapolye-3 — a site of the “pre-sopki” culture in the Upper Luga River region

2021 ◽  
Vol 31 ◽  
pp. 179-195
Author(s):  
N. Platonova ◽  
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T. Zheglova ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Soil Layer ◽  
Roman Period ◽  
Burial Ground ◽  
Virgin Soil ◽  
Cultural Layer ◽  
River Region ◽  
A Site ◽  
The Village

Under the mound of sopka no. 4 near the village of Peredolsky Pogost, there were revealed flat-grave burials in small pits and a concentration of pits of an unclear purpose including pillar holes. Some of them were 14С dated to within the interval of the 4th–7th century. The pottery from two of the pits has parallels in the “pre-sopki” antiquities and the culture of the Pskov long barrows. The buried topsoil in this area is almost sterile, but two finds of the Roman period were recovered from the surface of the virgin soil layer. Possibly, the cultural layer was deposited in the course of ritual activities performed in the sacral zone of the burial ground in different epochs.

scholarly journals EARLY MEDIEVAL BURIAL GROUND GUSARA I IN NORTH OSSETIA

2020 ◽  
Vol 16 (3) ◽  
pp. 811-829
Author(s):  
Zalina P. Kadzaeva ◽  
Maria M. Kanukova
Keyword(s):  
Type I ◽  
Burial Ground ◽  
North Caucasus ◽  
Early Medieval ◽  
Archaeological Material ◽  
Funeral Rite ◽  
The North ◽  
Archaeological Materials ◽  
The Republic ◽  
North Ossetia

In 2003 the Alagir archaeological team of the Institute of History and Archaeology (IHA) at North Ossetian state University named after K. L. Khetagurov (now the IHA Republic of North Ossetia-Alania) excavated the Gusara I burial ground in the Alagirsky district of the Republic of North Ossetia-Alania. The destroyed and looted part about 70 square meters of the burial ground was studied. In total, three underground catacombs were excavated. They contained a few, but quite expressive archaeological material (fibulae, buckles, beads, etc.). The studied catacombs were made in T-shaped type I. There are two varieties of burials according to the details of its constructions. The first variety: entrance pits are narrow and long; the bottom of the entrance pit and the chamber are at the same level, the dromos is not expressed, the vault of the chamber is flat. The chambers are small, most likely intended for the burial of a single person. Presumably, the buried were put with their heads to the left of the entrance. The second variety: the entrance pit is short; a step separated the bottom of the entrance pit from the bottom of the chamber; the dromos is expressed; the vault is designed as an arch; under the buried is traced a bed of organic origin. The buried lay with their heads to the left of the entrance; an artificially deformed skull was fixed. According to the funeral rite and inventory, investigated underground catacombs belong to the early medieval stage of the Alan culture in the North Caucasus during the 2nd half of VI – the 1st half of VII centuries A.D. The investigated archaeological inventory is close to the materials as early Alan culture so the Hun time. The purpose of the article is the introduction into scientific activities the archaeological materials of Gusara I.

scholarly journals Research by S. M. Sergeev at the burial complex near the village Maima-Chergachak

2021 ◽  
Vol 16 ◽  
pp. 132-137
Author(s):  
S. S. Radovsky ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Burial Ground ◽  
The West ◽  
Funeral Rite ◽  
The Right ◽  
High Degree ◽  
The Village ◽  
Burial Grounds ◽  
Grave Goods

The article presents the results of the work of S. M. Sergeev at the burial complex near the village. Maima. In 1934, after being transferred to the Oirot Regional Museum, the researcher unearthed two mounds of the Scythian-Saka period at this burial ground. According to the characteristics of the funeral rite and grave goods, the necropolis under consideration, with a high degree of probability, belongs to the Bystryan culture of the northern foothills of Altai. Currently, on the right bank of the Katun, in the vicinity of the designated village, three burial grounds of the community under consideration(Maima VI, VII, XIX) are known, however, all of them are located east of the Chuisky tract,while the indicated monument is located to the west of it. Perhaps S. M. Sergeev recorded another burial ground of the Bystryanskaya culture, which is now not preserved, located on the territory of the Maiminsky archaeological complex.

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 Crimean Gothia in the First Half of the 13th Century

2021 ◽  
pp. 56-68
Author(s):  
Aleksandr Aibabin
Keyword(s):  
Southern Coast ◽  
13Th Century ◽  
The North ◽  
North Eastern ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Village ◽  
The City ◽  
Archaeological Excavations ◽  
Written Sources

Introduction. The toponym Gothia in written sources from the 8th century was used to designate the territory of the Mountain Crimea inhabited by the Alans and the Goths between Inkerman and the north-eastern suburb of Alushta. The same region was called the Klimata of Cherson and the Klimata of Gothia. Methods. Fragmentary information about Gothia is contained in the “Synopsis of St. Eugenios” compiled by John Lazaropoulos until 1364 and in the “Alanian Epistle” by the bishop Theodore. These works describe the same period in the history of the Gothic Klimata, 1223–1227 and 1223, respectively. Analysis. The considered evidence confirms the entry of Cherson and its subordinate Klimata of Gothia into the empire of Trebizond, at least in the first half of the 13th century. It is methodically incorrect to judge the situation in the Klimata in the first half of the 13th century from the descriptions contained in later sources of what happened in the 14th–15th centuries. The “Epistle” says about the flight of bishop Theodore to an Alanian village neighboring to Cherson. Supporters of identifying the village with the Qırq-Yer fortress remote from the city on the Chufut-Kale plateau ignore geographical and historical realities. Results. There is no evidence of the existence of single-ethnic Gothic and Alanian regions in the mountains and on the southern coast in written sources. In Sudak, Guillaume de Rubrouck was talked about speakers of Teutonic and other languages in the mountains of Crimea. Historian’s allegations about the division of Gothia into two principalities are disproved by the results of archaeological excavations in the territory of Klimata of Gothia. The toponym Klimata is not mentioned in the descriptions of events that occurred after the middle 13th century. However, archaeological excavations of cities on the Inner Ridge revealed the preservation of active and diverse life activities of the population of the region until the end of the 13th century. Probably, the history of the administrative formation of the Klimata of Gothia was interrupted in 1298/99, when Nogai’s troops destroyed Cherson, cities on the Eski-Kermen plateau, Bakla and others.

scholarly journals Archaeological Research in the Seltpennoe Settlement 2019-2020

2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (38) ◽  
pp. 35-49
Author(s):  
Evgeniy M. Pigarev ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Archaeological Research ◽  
Cultural Layer ◽  
13Th Century ◽  
Archaeological Material ◽  
Archaeological Methods ◽  
The Village ◽  
The City

The article discusses the results of archaeological research in 2019-2020, conducted on the territory of the village of Selitpennoe in the Astrakhan Region, which overlaps the cultural layer of the Selitrennoe settlement. The characteristic of excavations and pits with the most expressive finds is given. The distribution of archaeological material and numismatic finds in chronological and topographical aspects is analyzed. Two previously unknown urban necropolises and a pottery workshop discovered in the course of research are localized. The dynamics of changes in the area of the medieval city in the 14th -15th centuries is presented. The analysis of the coin case shows the predominance of coins of the 1330s-1350s and the products of the Sarai al-Jedid mint. It is proved by archaeological methods that there is no cultural layer of the 13th century under the modern village. As a result of the materials obtained, the Selitrennoe settlement is identified by the author with the capital of the Ulus of Jochi, the city of Saray al-Jedid.

scholarly journals Excavation at the Visyachiy Kamen-2 burial ground

2021 ◽  
Vol 16 ◽  
pp. 169-174
Author(s):  
P. I. Shulga ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Middle Ages ◽  
Burial Ground ◽  
Rare Type ◽  
Funeral Rite ◽  
Burial Mounds ◽  
The Village

In 2008 near the village of Novofirsovo (Kurinsky District, Altai Territory), two burial mounds (No 2, No 3) were accidentally excavated. Kurgan No. 2 was robbed in antiquity; the inventory was absent. However, the features of the funeral rite indicate that it was made near 7th-6th cent. BC. «Long» mound No 3 (15 m long and 47 m wide), was formed during the confluence of small mounds (made of stone and soil), and contained seven graves. Kurgan belongs to a rare type of Middle Ages burial structures, possibly of the Turkic time.

scholarly journals Excavatons of crypts at the burial ground of Shestakovo-II and issues of the chronology of the shestakov culture

2021 ◽  
Vol 33 (2) ◽  
pp. 84-109
Author(s):  
Kulemzin A. ◽  
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Ilyushin A. ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Iron Age ◽  
Final Stage ◽  
Archaeological Sites ◽  
Early Iron Age ◽  
Forest Steppe ◽  
Burial Mound ◽  
Burial Ground ◽  
Funeral Rite ◽  
Development Scheme ◽  
The Village

The article publishes and investigates the materials of the excavations of 1976 and 1980 at the Shestakovo-II burial mound in the Chebulinsky district of the Kemerovo region. The burial monument is located in the Achinsko-Mariinsky forest-steppe on the second floodplain terrace of the Kia River near the village of Shestakovo, next to other archaeological sites investigated (the Shestakovo-I settlement, the Shestakovo-II settlement and the Shestakovo i burial mound), which belong to the final stage of the early Iron Age and form a single archaeological cultural and chronological complex Excavation materials are systematized at the level of elements of burial structures, memorial funeral rite, burial method and burial equipment. A comparative analysis of published materials with sources from neighboring territories and the valley of the middle reaches of the Kii River is carried out. It is concluded that the published sources are close to the excavation materials of the objects of the third and fourth stages of the Shestakovo i burial mound, which is a reference site for the Shestakovo archaeological culture of the transitional Tagaro-Tashtyk time in the Achinsk-Mariinsky forest-steppe in 1979. Based on the statement that the Tesin archaeological culture of the 3rd century BC is the middle of the 3rd century in the steppes of the Middle Yenisei is a synchronous Shestakov archaeological culture of the Achinsk- Mariinsky forest-steppe and, taking into account the observations made by various authors about the late creation of similar processes in this region, we model a cultural and chronological development scheme. This suggests that the Shestakov archaeological culture could have function from the 2nd century BC to the 4th century. This model and the analogies given to the materials from the Shestakovo II burial mound allow us to date this monument to the 3rd — 4th centuries and attribute it to the final stage of the development of the Shestakovo archaeological culture. Key words: Achinsk-Mariinsky forest-steppe, finale of the early Iron Age, Shestakovo-II burial ground, Shestakovo archaeological culture

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