Anna Kadiewa
State Historical Museum, Archaeology, Department Member
- History, Arheology, Anthropology, Archaeology of Caucasus, Medieval Archaeology, Burial Customs, and 10 moreEarly Iron Age, Sarmatians, Scythian, Sarmatian, Meotian and Slavonic cultures, zoomorphic Figurines, Early Steppe Nomadic peoples migrations and social life, Archaeology Of The Migration Period And The Early Middle Ages, Barbaricum, Eurasian Nomads, Scythian and other Eurasian Nomadic Horse Warrior Cultures, and Great Migration periodedit
The paper presents analysis of the chronological markers pertaining to the Aldar Rezen cemetery near the village of Kumbulta in the Digori gorge (present-day Irafsky district of North Ossetia-Alania). Six graves of the necropolis were... more
The paper presents analysis of the chronological markers pertaining to the Aldar Rezen cemetery near the village of Kumbulta in the Digori gorge (present-day Irafsky district of North Ossetia-Alania). Six graves of the necropolis were excavated in the 1880s by K. I. Olshevsky, whose diary was published by Countess P. S. Uvarova. The graves of the cemetery are stone-lined pits containing single and multiple burials. It does not seem possible to divide the funeral offerings acquired by the State Historical Museum into assemblages; therefore, the offerings are analyzed as a single collection. The study of the buckles and fibulae from Aldar-Rezen helped determine its chronology, which falls within the 3rd–5th centuries. Composite two-piece arch-shaped fibulae, which are basically reworked Koban one-piece arch-shaped fibulae, typical for the Late Sarmatian period, are worth mentioning. Besides the fibulae, the grave gifts also include pendants shaped as human and animal figures, which are also reworked versions of the Koban items. Therefore, the cemetery in question belonged to descendants of the Koban cultural community.
Keywords: North Caucasus, Late Roman period, funeral rite, pits lined with stone.
Keywords: North Caucasus, Late Roman period, funeral rite, pits lined with stone.
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Древняя и средневековая культура адыгов. Нальчик. 2014. СС. 54 – 75.
