Pages: 115-126 | DOI: https://doi.org/10.55086/sp243115126
The paper presents and analyzes materials obtained from the study of three burials dating back to the pre-Scythian era in the Volkhonskiye Vyselki barrow, located in the north of the Don forest-steppe. Burials from the very beginning of the Early Iron Age are uncommon in this region, making each site more scientifically valuable. All three graves are let into the southern semicircle of the barrow, which was constructed during the Bronze Age. One of these may have been a paired burial (of two women), while the other two (male) were single. Two burials were placed in pits covered with wood, while the structure for the third burial is unknown. Surviving grave goods include four stucco vessels, two grain graters, and fourteen birch bark beads. The authors present results of the technical and technological analysis of ceramics and data from the anthropological study. Based on radiocarbon dating, the burials are estimated to have taken place during the second half of the 8th — the first half of the 7th centuries BC
Keywords: Upper Don region, barrow, pre-Scythian era, burials, chronology, anthropology, technical and technological analysis of ceramics
Information about authors:
Andrey Zheludkov (Lipetsk, Russian Federation). Lipetsk Regional scientific public organization “Archaeological Research” . Communalnaya Sq., 9, office 106, Lipetsk, 398059, Russian Federation
E-mail: [email protected]
ORCID: 0000-0003-1920-9106
Tatyana Puzanova (Moscow, Russian Federation). Candidate of Geographical Sciences. M. V. Lomonosov Moscow State University. Lomonosov Ave., 27/4, Moscow, 119991, Russian Federation
E-mail: [email protected]
ORCID: 0000-0002-6798-2091
Kulichkov Alexey (Tambov, Russian Federation). “Interregional Center for Archaeological Research” LLC. Enthusiasts Bd., 2A, Tambov, 392003, Russian Federation
E-mail: [email protected]
ORCID: 0000-0003-1992-2833
Sergey Vasilyev (Moscow, Russian Federation). Doctor of Historical Sciences. N. N. Miklukho-Maklai Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology, Russian Academy of Sciences. Enthusiasts Bd., 2A, Tambov, 392003, Russian Federation
E-mail: [email protected]
ORCID: 0000-0003-0128-6568
Svetlana Borutskaya (Moscow, Russian Federation). Candidate of Biological Sciences. M. V. Lomonosov Moscow State University. Leninskie Gory 1, GSP-1, Moscow, 119991, Russian Federation
E-mail: [email protected]
ORCID: 0000-0003-0753-151X