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The first dataset of vascular plant species occurrences on kurgans in Southern Ukraine [PDF]
The dataset contains the records of vascular plant species occurrences and distribution on Ukrainian kurgans (burial mounds, barrows), located in various zones of steppe vegetation: desert steppe, grass steppe, herb-rich grass steppe and forest steppe ...
Ivan Moysiyenko +4 more
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First Survey of the Vascular and Cryptogam Flora on Bulgaria’s Ancient Mounds [PDF]
This work represents the first study of the floristic diversity on Bulgaria’s ancient mounds. The objective of this research was to assess the importance of the mounds for the preservation of the native vascular and cryptogam flora.
Iva Apostolova +8 more
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This article presents the results of rescue archaeological excavations carried out in November 2015 — January 2016 (following the program of archaeological research in new building sites, within the framework of the South Caucasus Pipeline Expansion ...
Najafov Sh.N. +2 more
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Berel Kurgans within the Context of Funeral Rites / Ölü Gömme Gelenekleri Bağlamında Berel Kurganları [PDF]
Permafrost layers under the stone kurgans at Berel Valley located at the southwestern slopes of Altai Mountains, was initially discovered by Wilhelm Radloff in 1865.
Mehmet Kutlu*, Leila Kutlu**
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Archaeological Sites of Kalmykia: Contemporary Cartographic Sources Revisited
Introduction. When it comes to contemporary maps of Kalmykia, one can mention those contain quite a number of symbols to denote kurgans / mounds. Goals.
Erdni A. Kekeev
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Due to the intensified land use in transformed landscapes, grassland biodiversity is often restricted to habitat fragments inadequate for arable use or for urban development.
Balázs Deák +10 more
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Grave Monuments in South–Eastern End of the South Caucasus: Late Bronze – Early Iron Age Kurgans
The article deals with the results of the Late Bronze – Early Iron Age kurgans built in the foothills of the Talysh Mountains at the south-eastern end of the South Caucasus.
Anar Agalarzade M.
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Berel Kurgans are located in the Berel Valley on the western slope of the Altai Mountains, Eastern Kazakhstan Province of the Republic of Kazakhstan. Berel is the cemetery where kurgans of the mid İron Age Scythian/Saka communities of the Altay Mountains referred in archaeology as the Pazyryk culture had been identified.
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Apart from some controversial ones, kurgans are a model of grave architecture frequently used by ancient Eurasian societies in the steppes, with the oldest-known examples of kurgans dating back to the third millennium BC.
Okan Sezer
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Glass beads – monochrome pyramidal, flat rhomboid and biconical – types 88–96, 112–115 and 171 of E.M. Alekseyeva. In search of chronoindicators for microchronology of kurgans and burials of the Black Sea Scythia of the 5th – 4th centuries BC [PDF]
Using Greek ceramics and arrowheads from the Scythian kurgans of the Northern Black Sea region the article proposes chronology of glass monochrome beads – biconical, pyramidal and flat rhomboid, identified in types 88–96, 112–115 and ...
Polin, Sergey Vasil’evich +1 more
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