Pages: 47-61 | DOI: https://doi.org/10.55086/sp2224761

The article focuses on the burials in the cultural layer of Chekon settlement excavated by A. I. Yudin in 2018. In total, a little more than 10 burials have been identified on the site, in pits – mud huts or beyond. The discovered burials differ in many respects from the traditions of the Maikop practice of burying countrymen in barrows. But we can assume that these burials were committed by the inhabitants of the village. As a result, we can say that we are faced with a fundamentally new type of funerary practice for the bearers of the Maykop-Novosvobodnaya community.

Keywords: Maikop-Novosvobodnaya community, settlement, Caucasus, tradition, funerary rite, burial, cult, sacrifice, chronology

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]
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4550-1143

Maria Mednicova (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]

Aleksander Yudin (Saratov, Russian Federation). Doctor of Historical Sciences. Research Center for the Preservation of Cultural Heritage. Glebychev ovrag st., 492, Saratov, 410003, Russian Federation
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