Pages: 35-60

The authors introduce a classification of currently available burial facilities of the Yamnaya (Pit-Grave) culture of the Volga-Ural interfluve by labor costs — based on 394 burials of the 281 kurgans. They use data from the natural-scientific studies of the last decade. Thus, they managed to individualize constructive characteristics of burial structures depending on the age and sex structure, social status and professional activity of the buried, as well as to determine the level of development of social relations in Рit-Grave culture. Evolution of the social structure is considered in the context of modern periodization and radio-carbon chronology of the Pit-Grave culture in the Volga-Ural region.

Keywords: Eastern Europe, Volga-Ural interfluve, Yamnaуa (Pit-Grave) culture, classification of barrows and labor costs, age and sex structure, social structure, social relations, chronology

Information about authors:

Nina Morgunova (Orenburg, Russian Federation). Doctor of Historical Sciences. Orenburg State Pedagogical University. Sovetskaya St., 19, Orenburg, 460014, Russian Federation
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Airat Fayzullin (Orenburg, Russian Federation). Orenburg State Pedagogical University. Sovetskaya St., 19, Orenburg, 460014, Russian Federation
E-mail: [email protected]