Pages: 327-349

This article is in Russian
The article studies 86 burials with stone vessels of the Early nomads of Eurasia, for which there are anthropological definitions. Female burials (72.1 %) with stone altars predominate over male ones (22.1 %), burials of children (4.7 %) with this category of objects are very rare. Jewellery, utensils and the so-called complex of objects of ritual specialists, which include needles, awls, rods, punctures, Gryphaea shells, cups from the epiphyseal bone of an animal, freshwater mollusk valves, pistils, sticks, pebbles, are most often placed in female graves. There are also known cases of plant remains and charcoal found on or near the altar. For male burials with stone altars, in most cases, such categories of objects as weapons, horse equipment, and dishes are typical. Most likely, the objects considered here could be used for different purposes.

Keywords: stone altars, gender analysis, contextual analysis, Early Nomads, Early Iron Age, Steppe Eurasia

Information about author:

Ksenia Margaryan (Chelyabinsk, Russian Federation). Eurasian Studies Research and Education Centre of South Ural State University. Lenin Ave., 76, Chelyabinsk, 454080, Russian Federation
E-mail: [email protected]
ORCID: 0000-0002-8017-7011