Ablazovo Barrow (on the burial mounds of the Вalanovо culture)
Journal Title: Поволжская Археология - Year 2016, Vol 1, Issue 15
Abstract
The article studies the results of the excavations of the Ablyazovo barrow (Kozlovka district, the Chuvash Republic) in 2011. The tilled mound covered a circular ditch, a fireplace, two deep graves with complex design and a ritual burial of a small cattle, which were carefully studied. The funerary rite and complexes of artefacts demonstrate a combination of the Balanovo and Atlykasy traditions and are dated by the finale of the Middle Bronze Age (late III Millennium BC). The syncretism of finds from the Ablyazovo barrow allows us to regard it as a transitional type: it has a mound, traces of fire, funerary feast, specific ornament on vessels, yet at the same time it preserves the typical design of grave pits, crouched position and orientation of bones. Materials from this site enable us to take a new look at the problem of development of the Balanovo culture, and complement our general understanding of ethnocultural interaction in the Middle Volga region in the Bronze Age.
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Boris Soloviev, Mikhail Fedulov
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- DOI https://doi.org/10.24852/pa2016.1.15.8.25
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