The article is dedicated to the publication of a burial construction – multi chamber catacomb from the medieval Alan necropolis Dargavs situated in the Republic of Northern Ossetia-Alania. The article contains scrupulous information about... more
The article is dedicated to the publication of a burial construction – multi chamber catacomb from the medieval
Alan necropolis Dargavs situated in the Republic of Northern Ossetia-Alania. The article contains
scrupulous information about published burial complex, as well as the analysis of the funeral rite and grave
goods.
Alan necropolis Dargavs situated in the Republic of Northern Ossetia-Alania. The article contains
scrupulous information about published burial complex, as well as the analysis of the funeral rite and grave
goods.
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The paper discusses some debatable problems related to the cremation burials. The rich material accumulated by now needs historical interpretation. Among the urgent problems there are those of chronological distribution of the burials of... more
The paper discusses some debatable problems related to the cremation burials. The rich material accumulated by now needs historical interpretation. Among the urgent problems there are those of chronological distribution of the burials of the 8th – 13th cc., and ethnic attribution of the cremation associations. Not a single hypothesis (including the Abkhazian-Adyg, Turkic, or Ugrian origin of the sites) has been sufficiently proved, the provenance of cremation rite in the Middle Age Caucasus also remains unclear. The author stresses the necessity of modern methods of working out chronology and searching ethnic markers, first of all, compiling a unified database of cremation burials, which will enable their multivariate statistical analysis. This method is promising, as far as the problems of ethnic and political history of East European population in the late 1st – early 2nd millennia are concerned.
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The article considers the dynamics of the areal of the ground burials of the 8th–13th cc. with the ritual of burnt corpses on the territory of the North Western Caucasus. The author identified the areal groups of necropolis and calculated... more
The article considers the dynamics of the areal of the ground burials of the 8th–13th cc. with the ritual of burnt corpses on the territory of the North Western Caucasus. The author identified the areal groups of necropolis and calculated their density using the methods of geographic information system analysis. The received data gave the opportunity to identify the initial areal of the tradition and trace the dynamics of the expansion of such burials during the whole period of the existence of the cremation tradition in the North Western
Caucasus. The author draws the conclusion that over the period of the existence of such tradition the areal of necropolis was being changed partially. New features were added to the burial tradition. But the unity of the territory of the studied monuments testifies the direct continuity and correlation of the cremation of the Khazars cultural historical period and the Pechenegs Polovets one.
Caucasus. The author draws the conclusion that over the period of the existence of such tradition the areal of necropolis was being changed partially. New features were added to the burial tradition. But the unity of the territory of the studied monuments testifies the direct continuity and correlation of the cremation of the Khazars cultural historical period and the Pechenegs Polovets one.
