Early Tombs of Thrace. Questions of Chronology and Cultural Context

Stoyanov, Totko; Stoyanova, Daniela

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“…The earthen constructions usually range in size from 10 to 50 m in diameter and 0.5 to 20 m high, but exceptions are possible. Excavations across Eastern and Central Europe have shown that the contents of mounds can vary from no human remains at all (Agre, ), to a simple inhumation or cremation burial with or without an enclosure (Stoyanov, ), to elaborate stone or brick tombs with much architectural and artistic refinement and intrinsically valuable burial goods surrounding the bodies of the deceased and sacrificial victims (Gergova, ; Chichikova, ; Kitov, ; Filov, Velkov, & Mikov, ; Venedikov, ; Stoyanova, ; Stoyanov & Stoyanova, ; Tsetskhladze, ). The fate of the mounds changed dramatically after the fall of the Iron Curtain (Bailey, ).…”

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Soviet topographic maps and burial mounds of the Yambol province: digital workflow for mortuary landscape verification

Sobotková

Weissová

2020

Archaeological Prospection

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During a two‐week campaign in 2017, we verified burial mounds from 40‐year‐old Soviet topographic maps covering the northern part of the Yambol province, southeast Bulgaria. The aims of the project were to monitor the health of the burial mounds as well as to assess the reliability of Soviet maps at 1:50 000 scale and their utility for archaeological purposes. Three teams of volunteers visited and systematically documented 257 archaeological features, of which 200 were identified as burial mounds. Field documentation was conducted digitally, using a customization of the FAIMS Mobile platform, an offline ystem for integrated collection of multimedia with structured and spatial data. After field‐capture, data were synchronized and labelled automatically, allowing the teams to focus on questions of interpretation, burial mound definition, and the assessment of topographic map reliability. Of the present sample of mounds in the landscape, 73% were documented in the Soviet maps with very little spatial or attribute error. Comparison of mound condition with monitoring done in the south part of Yambol during 2009–2010 shows that while mounds are destroyed less aggressively, a larger percentage of mounds is impacted in the northern (4% of pristine mounds) compared to the southern (11%) part of the Yambol province.

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