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Grave Goods of an Elite Saka Burial at Kyrykoba in the Context of Cultural Ties Between the Nomads of Kazakhstan and Siberia

Archaeology, Ethnology and Anthropology of Eurasia (Russian-language), 2022
Приведены результаты изучения материалов раскопок кургана раннесакского времени Кырыкоба в Восточном Казахстане. Памятник разграблен, содержал останки человека. По заключению антропологов, в кургане быта похоронена женщина зрелого возраста с признаками трепанации черепа. В захоронении обнаружены ок.
K. A. Iskakov, U. U. Umitkaliev, O. A. Mitko   +2 more
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Accompanying Grave Goods from the Kyrgyz Warrior Burial from the Vicinity of the Novoselovo Village (Krasnoyarsk Region)

Vestnik NSU. Series: History and Philology, 2022
Purpose. An analysis of the collection of iron weapons of the Kyrgyz warrior and the equipment of his riding horse showed that they come from a burial made according to the cremation rite. Items of horse equipment are: a bit with a hook method of connecting links and cheek-pieces in the form of large rings; two arched stirrups with holes in the upper ...
S. M. Fokin, O. A. Mitko
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Prestige Goods from Élite Burials as Markers of Self-Identity and Networking of the Élites

Ancient Civilizations from Scythia to Siberia, 2020
Abstract The author proposes an approach to determine self-identities, boundaries, internal political organization and foreign relations of ancient societies using materials of burials of élites in the lack of representative written sources.
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Grave Goods from Megalithic Burials in the Upland Forests of the Nilgiri Mountains, South India: Analysis and Chronology

Asian Perspectives, 2021
The article examines the grave goods excavated in the nineteenth century from megalithic burials on the tops and ridges of the Nilgiri Mountains in southern India, an area of montane subtropical forests. This analysis is based on the study of the collection of Nilgiri grave goods held at the British Museum combined with a preliminary survey around the ...
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(Re)Considering the Pre-Burial Life of Grave Goods: Towards a Renewed Debate on Early Medieval Burial Chronology on the Continent

Medieval and Modern Matters, 2012
The reduction of the length of chronological phases is still a major issue in the current chronological debate in early medieval archaeology on the continent. Short phases imply a rapid and steady change of grave goods assemblages and are thought to support the assumption that the dead were buried with their inalienable personal possessions.
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Grave-Goods as Gifts in Early Saxon Burials (ca. AD 450-600)

Journal of Social Archaeology, 2004
This paper considers the possibility that Anglo-Saxon grave-goods, rather than having been the life possessions of the deceased, may have been gifts to him or her, thereby directly effecting a relationship between the survivors and the donor. This cautions against ‘life-mirror’ approaches to burial data that assume a reflective correspondence between ...
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A pyre and grave goods in British cremation burials; have we missed something?

Antiquity, 1994
There is more to a cremation than the human bone — turned white and blue-grey by the fire, enough to fill a fair-sized hat — because so much may go on the pyre with the corpse.
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The potential of phytolith analysis to reveal grave goods: the case study of the Viking-age equestrian burial of Fregerslev II

Vegetation History and Archaeobotany, 2022
Welmoed A Out, Mario Hasler, Marta Portillo   +2 more
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Hoards, grave goods, jewellery

2015
This monograph examines one specific hoard horizon, which is connected to the Mongol invasion of Hungary (1241-42). With this catastrophic event, the historical context is both well-known and much discussed by contemporaries and modern scholars. This opportunity to examine material connected to a sole event, but across a broad spectrum of geographical ...
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BACKGROUND ON THE SELECTION AND USAGE OF GOODS IN BURIALS:

2021
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