Issue 1 (62)
| NEW DATA ON LIFESTYLE OF THE POPULATION DURING THE BRONZE AGE IN THE SOUTHERN TRANS-URALS | |||
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| Year | 2019 | Number | 1(62) |
| Pages | 28-37 | Type | scientific article |
| UDC | 903.5(470.5)”637” | BBK | 63.442.6(235.55) |
| Authors | Yakimov Artem S. Sharapova Svetlana V. Karapetian Marina K. |
Topic | ARCHAEOLOGY OF LIFESTYLE |
| Summary | The article deals with proceeds of multidisciplinary bioarchaeological investigation of the Neplujevsky cemetery (Bronze Age, Trans-Urals). It introduces field materials and desk-top analyses of the kurgan 1, which yielded individual primary and double burials of adults and children, cenotaphs and structures for food offerings. In a course of paleoanthropolocal examination minimum of 44 individuals were identified, where 28 were children and adolescents. Funeral chambers were furnished with stone plates as well as removed sub-soil clay, then this construction was included into the lower level of mound and made it complicate. The paleosoil study supports hypothesis that initially the burial yard was functioned as flat burials ground, which later was covered with mound of a kurgan. The most impressive interments marked with rock-clay funeral expenditure were mapped outside geometrical center of the kurgan and contained male and female skeletal remains. There is no any specific order for location of sub-adults` burials. Double burials were found among all age categories, i. e. pre-adult, prime adult and elder. There was not any caries evidence, while there are registered cases of tartar and enamel hypoplasia. Besides of these there are data for cribra orbitalia and periostitis. There are frequent marks of injuries and protrusions of the intervertebral disc (Schmorl’s nodes), which could be explained as specifics of life style or some traumatic accidents. Thus the analyzed material provides a broad scope for biosocial and demographic reconstructions. | ||
| Keywords | burials, paleoanthropology, paleopathology, Srubnaja and Alakul complexes, Southern Trans-Urals | ||
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