Food fit for a Khan: Stable isotope analysis of the elite Mongol Empire cemetery at Tavan Tolgoi, Mongolia [PDF]
, 2014 The creation and expansion of the Mongol Empire during the thirteenth century A.D. brought with it many changes, both for the conquered peoples and for the conquerors themselves.
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THE BROKEN PEOPLE: DECONSTRUCTION OF PERSONHOOD IN IRON AGE FINLAND [PDF]
Eesti Arheoloogiaajakiri, 2006 The article is an attempt to characterize the concept of personhood as seen in the existence of collective cremation cemeteries under level ground in Iron Age Finland.
Anna Wickholm, Sami Raninen
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Memory, tradition, and Christianization of the Peloponnese [PDF]
, 2015 This work examines the use of memory and tradition in the Christianization of the Peloponnese based on the evidence of the location and topography of churches.
Sweetman, Rebecca Jane
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Migration in Bronze Age southern China: multidisciplinary investigations of elite Chu burials in Jingzhou [PDF]
Antiquity, 2022 Reconstructing the history of elite communication in ancient China benefits from additional archaeological evidence. We combine textual analysis with new human stable carbon and nitrogen isotope data from two Chu burials in the Jingzhou area to reveal significant dietary differences among Chu nobles of the middle Warring States period (c. 350 BC). This
Yiran Xu +10 more
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The structure of the community according to the data from the Bronze Age burial ground of Bestamak [PDF]
Вестник археологии, антропологии и этнографииThe Bestamak burial ground is located in the center of the Turgai trough, which connects the West Siberian and Turanian plains. The data obtained during its study suggests that of all prehistoric sites, closest to Bestamak is the well-known Sintashta ...
Kalieva S.S. +3 more
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Chronological and cultural attribution of the Early Iron Age graves from mound necropolis in Mojsinje near Čačak [PDF]
StarinarThe paper discusses the burial horizon II from the tumuli necropolis in Mojsinje, near Čačak, characterized by the inhumation burial ritual. Based on radiocarbon dates, this horizon is set between the second half of the 11th and the beginning of
Dmitrović Katarina
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Silver Tableware from the Nomad Burials of 13th –14th Centuries on the East European Plain
Поволжская археология, 2017 The article considers 31 nomad burials of 13th – 14th cc. containing prestigious silverware (waist bowls, ladles and goblets) discovered in the territory of nine regions of the East European Plain (Trans-Volga, Volga, Don, Cis-Caucasus, Kuban, Donets ...
Chkhaidze Victor N.
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Kurgan 28 of the Filippovka 1 Burial Ground: Revisiting the Dating Problem of the Complex
Нижневолжский археологический вестник, 2023 The papre is devoted to determining the date of the kurgan 28, Filippovka 1 burial ground, which is a necropolis of the social elite of the Southern Urals nomads in the middle of the 1st millennium BC. A burial partially destroyed by repeated robbery was
Olga V. Anikeeva, Vladimir N. Myshkin
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Polyneices’ Body and His Monument: Class, Social Status, and Funerary Commemoration in Sophocles’ Antigone [PDF]
, 2006 There has been much debate about the role of Greek tragedy in questioning and/or affirming values. This paper addresses the broader relationship between theater and society in terms of the ways in which the dead were commemorated in fifth-century Athens.
David Roselli
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“Looted Warriors” from Eastern Europe
Dissertationes Archaeologicae: Ex Instituto Archaeologico Universitatis de Rolando Eötvös Nominatae, 2019 The study discusses and calls attention to assemblages that are recent victims of illicit metal detectoring in Eastern Europe. The first one is a Ha B1 sword hoard, allegedly from Mátészalka (Hungary, Szabolcs-Szatmár-Bereg County).
Gábor János Tarbay
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