Pages: 171-219 | DOI: https://doi.org/10.55086/sp254171220
The article introduces previously unpublished materials studied on the Dalny (Vydrin) burial ground of the Chernyakhov culture in the upper reaches of the Sudzha River, an interfluvial area between the Sejm and Psel rivers. During the field work, 20 inhumation burials were excavated. So far, traces of cremation burials are known only by stray finds, including seven male, nine female, and three children’s; two are ritually destroyed. All burials can be dated to phases C3/D1 (second quarter of the 4th — the end of the 4th century). A rich burial of a man about 40 years old was revealed, which, based on material evidence, allowed him to be attributed to representatives of the military nobility. As a result of the typological analysis of chronological markers from the burial, this complex is late relative to the chronology of the Chernyakhov antiquities and belongs to the end of the 4th — the turn of the 4th/5th centuries. The study of the anthropological series was conducted according to a comprehensive program, including descriptive techniques, measurement methods, analysis of physiological stress markers, and pathologies. For the first time, data on the ratio of light nitrogen and carbon isotopes in bones and tooth enamel will be published, providing an opportunity for paleodietological and paleoecological reconstructions. Portrait reconstructions of 8 people buried in the burial ground (3 men and five women) were performed.
Keywords: burial ground, Chernyakhov culture, funerary rite, anthropology, portrait reconstructions, late Roman period, Great migration period, Kursk region, Seim River, Sudzha River
Information about authors:
Oleg Radyush (Moscow, Russian Federation). Candidate 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: 0000-0003-0311-7389
Irina Reshetova (Moscow, Russian Federation). Candidate 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: 0000-0002-3425-3212
Anna Rasskazova (Moscow, Russian Federation). N. N. Miklukho-Maklai Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology, Russian Academy of Sciences. Lenin Ave., 32-A, Moscow, 119991, Russian Federation; Research Institute and Museum of Anthropology of the M. V. Lomonosov Moscow State University. Mokhovaya St., 11, Moscow, 125009, Russian Federation
E-mail: [email protected]
ORCID: 0000-0002-4107-7923