Female Elite Burial from the Upper Don Hunnic Time Settlement of Mukhino 2: A Bioarcheological Reconstruction

Autor: Grigorii L. Zemtsov, Anna V. Mastykova, Mariia V. Dobrovol'skaia, Mariia B. Mednikova
Rok vydání: 2015
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Zdroj: Anthropology & Archeology of Eurasia. 54:26-48
ISSN: 1558-092X
1061-1959
DOI: 10.1080/10611959.2015.1114874
Popis: The article examines female burial 1, discovered at the multiple-layered settlement of Mukhino 2 (Zadonskii raion of Lipetsk oblast) on the left bank of the Snova River not far from where it flows into the Don River. Anthropological research of the skeletal remains has shown that they belong to a woman twenty to twenty-nine years of age. Burial 1 from the Mukhino 2 settlement is accompanied by grave goods typical of burials of the “barbarian” nobility in the Hunnic period, indicating a high social rank of the buried woman. Her attire is analogous to cultural traditions of the sedentary population of the Late Antique centers of the northern Black Sea region. Based on the grave goods, the Mukhino entombment can be dated to the end of the D2 period through the beginning of the D2/D3 in the “barbarian” European chronology, approximately the years 430–50. Morphological characterization of the postcranial skeleton suggests her refinement. Comparison with previously examined Sarmatian and Alanic female samples f...
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