Pages: 83-101

The authors publish burials of the Dolinskiy variant of the Maykop-Novosvobodnaya community dated by the end of the IV mill. BC. The main paired inhumation is made in a tomb. It was erected on the surface and contained remains of a mature man and a young woman. The man was buried with gold jewelry, daggers, arrowheads and a bronze cauldron; the woman was buried with gold pendants and an exceptional bone rod with a zoomorphic head. Also, there were two ceramic vessels placed in the burial. There was a secondary female grave, which contained only two ceramic vessels with flat bottoms.

Keywords: North Caucasus, Early Bronze Age, Maykop-Novosvobodnaya community, Andreevsky 1 barrow, funerary rite, bronze cauldron, uXRF

Information about authors:

Sergei Korenevskiy (Moscow, Russian Federation). Doctor of Historical Sciences. Institute of Archaeology of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Dmitry Ulyanov St., 19, Moscow, 117292, Russian Federation.
E-mail: [email protected]
Roman Prokofiev (Rostov-on-Don, Russian Federation). Centre for Practical Archaeology, Ltd. Suvorov St., 7, office 12, Rostov-on-Don, 344002, Russian Federation.
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