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Ancient DNA analysis of elite nomadic warrior from Chinge-Tey I funerary commemorative complex in the “Valley of the Kings”, Tuva [PDF]

BMC Genomics
Background In the Ist millennium BC bearers of the Scythian-type nomadic cultures inhabited the steppes of Eurasia, from Northern China to the Carpathians.
Artem Nedoluzhko, Ekaterina Vergasova, Fedor Sharko, Natalia Agapitova, Dmitry Kharitonov, Xenia Sukhanova, Olga Pushkina, Svetlana Pankova, Natalia Slobodova, Eugenia Boulygina, Nikolay Plotnikov, Anna Kim, Evgeniia Uchaneva, Nadezhda Pogodina, Anna Ilinskaya, Alexander Rakitko, Konstantin Chugunov, Valery Ilinsky   +17 more
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Warrior Traditions in Elite Children Clothes from Late Antique Phanagoria

Stratum plus. Archaeology and Cultural Anthropology, 2023
Warrior burials are not often found in late ancient necropolises of the Cimmerian Bosporus. Such burials rarely survive untouched by robbers. In this context, a recently discovered well-preserved large tomb in Phanagoria is a really unique find.
Alexei Voroshilov, O. Voroshilova
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A Roman Age Barbarian elite warrior grave from Csengersima

Acta Archaeologica Carpathica, 2020
This is a preliminary publication of a warrior barrow grave with local cremation found in Csengersima (North-Eastern Hungary). From the point of view of the burial rite, it can be – in many regards – connected to certain barrow graves of the Przeworsk ...
E. Istvánovits, V. Kulcsár
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THE ELITE GRAVE OF THE WARRIOR OF THE PRE-SCYTHIAN AGE NEAR MAIKOP

Archaeology and Early History of Ukraine, 2019
The Ulka I cemetery was discovered on the site of the ancient Ulka settlement during rescue excavations conducted by A. V. Surkov in 2017. It is located 5.4 km northeast of Maykop (Adygea, RF).
V. Erlikh
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Retrodicting the rise, spread, and fall of large-scale states in the Old World. [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2022
Understanding the rise, spread, and fall of large-scale states in the ancient world has occupied thinkers for millennia. However, no comprehensive mechanistic model of state dynamics based on their insights has emerged, leaving it difficult to evaluate ...
James S Bennett
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PRUSSIAN GRAVES IN THE SAMBIAN PENINSULA, WITH IMPORTS, WEAPONS AND HORSE HARNESSES, FROM THE TENTH TO THE 13TH CENTURY: THE QUESTION OF THE WARRIOR ELITE

Archaeologia Baltica, 2013
The article presents the latest data on tenth to 13th-century imports, graves with weapons and horse harnesses in the north Prussian area. The study is made on the basis of five recently investigated Prussian cemeteries, and on vast prewar published and archival data.
Roman Shiroukhov
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Warrior Burial from “Vysokaya Mogila – Studenikin Mar” Necropolis: New Finds of Defensive Armor of the Southern Urals Early Nomads

Нижневолжский археологический вестник
The article publishes a warrior burial from the Southern Urals. In the kurgan with specific features of the South Ural nomads’ elite burial rite, a central dromos with an individual burial of a nomadic military nobility representative was studied. In the
Sergey V. Sirotin, Konstantin S. Okorokov, Daria S. Bogachuk   +2 more
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The Results of Paleoanthropological Analysis of the Remains of a Warrior from an Elite Burial of the XIV Century near the City of Krymsk

Археология евразийских степей, 2023
The work contains the results of a comprehensive archaeological and paleoanthropological analysis of unique materials which were received at the beginning of the 20th century by the Kuban Museum (now the Krasnodar Territory Krasnodar State Historical and
Alexandra N. Abramova, Inga A. Druzhinina   +1 more
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Animating the Cosmos: The Azure Dragon, White Tiger, Vermilion Bird, and Dark Warrior in Han Tomb Art and Thought

Távol-keleti Tanulmányok
This article explores the artistic development and cosmological significance of the Four Cardinal Deities—the Azure Dragon, White Tiger, Vermilion Bird, and Dark Warrior—in Han dynasty funerary art. Drawing from a rich corpus of archaeological materials,
Marianna Lázár
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Military education in ostrogothian Italy (at the turn of 5th – 6th centuries) [PDF]

Hypothekai, 2020
In the article, traditions of military education in Ostrogothian Italy and their interpretation in rhetoric are analyzed predominate-ly in the works of Ennodius and Cassiodorus.
Vladimir Tyulenev
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