scholarly journals About possible attribution of chain mail artifacts from military burials of the Sadon burial ground

2020 ◽  
Vol 16 (4) ◽  
pp. 1016-1033
Author(s):  
Zalina P Kadzaeva ◽  
Vladimir Y Malashev
Keyword(s):  
Burial Ground ◽  
Early Medieval ◽  
Rectangular Piece

Abstract: the article deals with the finds of chain mail artifacts from two military graves of the early medieval Sadon burial ground of the Alanian culture. According to similar items from the Lombard military burials of the Castel Trosino burial ground in Italy, samples from Sadon are presumably interpreted as gloves designed to protect the hand in combat conditions. Fragments of leather preserved on mail items from the Sadon may be remnants of products in the form of mittens or gloves; a rectangular piece of chain mail mesh was sewn to them from the back to protect the hand.

The Jellinge Stone: from prehistoric monument to petrified ‘book’

2018 ◽  
pp. 235-251
Author(s):  
Michelle P. Brown
Keyword(s):  
Middle Ages ◽  
Tenth Century ◽  
Burial Ground ◽  
Medieval Art ◽  
Early Medieval ◽  
Early Middle Ages

Like the previous chapter, Michelle Brown’s contribution represents an instance of the integration of Christian and pre-Christian Germanic knowledge in the early Middle Ages. Brown explores the context and meaning of the distinctive late-tenth-century rune-stone carved at the royal burial ground of Jellinge in Denmark, viewing the monument as a book in stone and a symbol of conversion and of changing political agendas in Scandinavia in the tenth century. Ranging widely across early medieval art, Brown explains that the stone (like the Auzon/Franks Casket, to which she also alludes) draws upon both Christian and pagan Norse traditions ‘to form a new, integrated iconography that formed a distinctive expression of the Scandinavian experience of cultural synthesis and conversion’.

Determining Y-DNA and mtDNA haplogroups for the Twelveth-Century Medieval Slavic Burial near Zagoryansky Settlement on the Upper Klyazma (Moscow Region). Part II

Rusin ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 9-37
Author(s):  
S.Z. Chernov ◽  
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N.N. Goncharova ◽  
A.S. Semenov ◽  
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...  
Keyword(s):  
Moscow Region ◽  
Burial Ground ◽  
Early Medieval ◽  
Mtdna Haplogroups ◽  
Mitochondrial Haplogroup ◽  
Upper Volga ◽  
The Baltic

The study aims at determining Y-DNA and mtDNA haplogroups of two early medieval Slavic burials at Bolshevo-1 burial ground (near Zagoryansky settlement) on the Klyazma River to consider their possible analogs in other samples of medieval Slavic DNA and to give a historical, archaeological and anthropological interpretation of the result. The comparison of the skulls from Bolshevo-1 with the craniological Slavic series has shown their proximity to the Serbian and West Slavic series. The belonging of Individuals 5666 and 5672 to Y-DNA haplogroups E1b1b and J2a1 suggests the Danube component in the ethnogenesis of this group of the Krivichi tribe, which came from the Upper Volga and the Novgorod-Smolensk border. The mitochondrial haplogroup of Individual 5666 H1e1b allows considering the Baltic branch of the ethnogenesis of this group.

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 DECORATIONS FROM SHELLS IN THE ADORNMENTS OF EARLY MEDIEVAL SLAVS

2021 ◽  
Vol 40 (3) ◽  
pp. 243-263
Author(s):  
Ya. V. Volodarets-Urbanovіch
Keyword(s):  
Eastern Europe ◽  
Middle Ages ◽  
General Trend ◽  
Donets Basin ◽  
Burial Ground ◽  
Early Medieval ◽  
Early Middle Ages ◽  
The Caucasus ◽  
The Third

The pendant from Luka-Kavetchyna, dwelling 25 (fig. 2: 1; 3) is the earliest find from the Slavs sites da­ting to the second quarter — the end of the 5th century. The adornment was made of a shell of the genus Murex and is the «legacy» from the Cherniakhіv culture. In the area of that culture are known the pendants made of shells of this genus (type 2 by O. Hopkalo). The pendants from shells appear in use of the Slavs since the second half of the 6th century. Their varieties were used until the first half of the 8th century, although the assemblages and finds with them are few (table 1; fig. 1; 14). In the Slavic assemblages the shells of mollusks of the following species were occurred: Cypraea moneta, C. pantherina, C. tigris, C. arabica. The items from Murex shells are also known. The height of Cypraea moneta is a little more than 2 cm. Other species of shells are larger reaching the height ca. 7—8 cm. The assemblages of the Martinіvka circle include Khatski (fig. 4: A) and Khittsі ones. The grave from Mokhnach belongs to the same antiquities (fig. 2: 2; 5—7). The jewellery by Martynivka circle are dated back to the second half of the 6th century, and the hoards were hidden in the middle — the third quarter of the 7th century. The Pastyrsky circle hoards include the assemblages from Zaitsevo (fig. 4: B) and Kharіvka (fig. 8—10). The hoards by Pastyrsky circle were hidden in the first half of 8th century. The appearance of the pendants from shells is related to the general trend of the spread of Cypraea moneta in Eastern Europe in the early Middle Ages. They are known in the Caucasus, Crimea, the Seversky Donets basin (fig. 11). Cypraea moneta shells were used as pendants in necklaces as evidenced by finds from the Luchiste burial ground from Crimea. The use of other types of shells remains unclear. However, they were probably parts of necklaces or amulets.

scholarly journals The Catacomb No. 74 of the Verkhnii Saltiv Main Burial Ground

Archaeology ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 106-116
Author(s):  
Viktor Aksionov ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Donets Basin ◽  
Forest Steppe ◽  
Left Bank ◽  
Burial Ground ◽  
Teenage Girl ◽  
Early Medieval ◽  
Main Site ◽  
Ancient Times ◽  
Danube Region ◽  
Close Contacts

The materials of the catacomb burial, investigated in 1988 by the expedition of Kharkiv Historical Museum under the leadership of V. H. Borodulin, located on the main site of the early medieval burial ground near Verkhnii Saltiv village (Verkhnii Saltiv Burial Ground-I, hereinafter — VSBG-I), are introduced into the scientific circulation. The catacomb had a long (6.3 m) and deep (5.05 m) dromos, in the western part of which the path of the re-entry into the burial chamber was fixated. The burial chamber, transverse to the dromos, contained the remains of three people (a man, a woman, and a teenage girl) who had traces of deliberate destruction committed in ancient times (Fig. 1: 1). Despite this, a rich burial inventory was found in the burial, which included: weapons (sabre, two chisel-axes); household items (two adz-hoes, a jug); personal jewelry (earrings, beads, bracelets, rings); toiletry (mirrors, toilet boxes); details of clothing; elements of a belt set; amulets. According to the elements of the belt set, this burial complex is dated by the second — third quarters of the 9th century. The main feature of this catacomb is the presence of a silver earring in it (Fig. 1: 13), which finds broad analogies in the Slavic-Avar antiquities of the Danube region. On the monuments of the Dnieper Left-Bank forest-steppe, similar earrings were found in the monuments of the Volyntsev culture of the second half of the 8th — early 9th centuries. A silver plaque-frame with an anthropomorphic image (Fig. 1: 12) is not typical for classical Saltiv antiquities, and it is stylistically close to the plaques from the Hungarian burial (burial No. 2) near Subotsi village (Ukraine, Kirovohrad Oblast). The presence of these items in the catacomb No. 74 testifies to the close contacts of the Alans of the Saltiv culture of the Siverskyi Donets basin in the second — third quarters of the 9th century simultaneously with representatives of the conquered Slavic tribes and with the ancient Hungarians, who were allies of the Khazar Khaganate.

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