Kurgans and nomads: new investigations of mound burials in the southern Urals

Morgunova, Nina; Khokhlova, Olga

doi:10.1017/s0003598x00093637

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“…Recent investigations of palaeosols associated with kurgans in the Sarmatian territories indicate that construction activities coincide with regional climatic ameliora-tions characterized by greater rainfall, which may have provided reliable pastures for livestock. Kurgan construction declined in the southern Uralian plains during the onset of drought lasting from the second century bc to the first century ad, possibly coinciding with the observed westward shift in kurgan construction toward the Volga-Don basin (Morgunova & Khokhlova 2006). Both archaeologists and epigraphers have questioned the validity of the migration hypothesis and instead consider the 'Sarmatian' polity to be differentiated nomadic groups with regional territorial claims rather than a single ethnolinguistic or political entity (Tochtas'ev 2005;Mordvintseva 2008).…”

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Sarmatian Mirrors and Han Ingots (100 BC–AD 100): How the Foreign became Local and Vice Versa

Yao¹

2012

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Concepts such as creolization and hybridity offer inclusive frameworks to study identity Silliman 2009, 213). And because the materiality of cultural identity helps to realize a discourse about change that is necessary to the study of cross-cultural interaction, creolization and hybridity have gathered momentum in archaeology. At the same time, these concepts are 'good to think with' because change is made more accessible and difference is democratized. Placing 'hybrid' and 'creole' objects under closer scrutiny, I ask how these concepts can be purposeful in the study of social transformation under cross-cultural engagement. First, if culture change is a creative and negotiated process, can 'invented traditions' have any specificity or explanatory potential? By revisiting creolization and hybridity studies in archaeology, I evaluate their understanding of the interrelationship between material representation and cultural Archaeologists have welcomed the terms creolization and hybridity as innovative concepts for understanding intercultural interaction and change in the premodern world (Alt 2006;Cusick 1998;Deagan 1983;Ferguson 1992;Lightfoot 1995;Liebmann 2008;van Dommelen 2005). The concepts have been used to both describe material culture combining local and foreign cultural elements as well as the specific social processes that generate these material novelties. For instance, archaeo logists have shown how elites manipulate local and imperial rituals to meet political ends (van Dommelen 2005), how men and women differentially integrate colonial practices depending on their community participation (Deagan 1983;Lightfoot 1995), how craft producers experiment with local and foreign potting traditions as different techniques present new opportunies for interaction (Alt 2006). These theoretical applications show that indigenous and colonized individuals adapted two material traditions as a means of cultural action in an increasingly complex world beset by ambiguities. In so doing, creolization and hybridity have provided alternative cultural responses beyond assimilation by questioning the permanence of power asymmetries and uni-directionality of change inherent in earlier models (Rogers 1990;Cusick 1998).While these insights alert us to the complexity of identity formation under periods of intercultural interaction, the lack of specificity in the application of

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Sarmatian Mirrors and Han Ingots (100 BC–AD 100): How the Foreign became Local and Vice Versa

Yao¹

2012

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“…The assets identified by archaeological research indicate contacts over large areas made by knowing and frequenting older routes or opening new ones. Mobility was also explained by the absence of permanent settlements, but also by the presence in the graves of horses, small horses, and cattle specific to this way of life (Morgunova and Khokhlova, 2006). How should it be protected?…”

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Information: Another Perspective on Cultural Heritage Management

Frînculeasa¹,

Frînculeasa²,

Chiţescu³

2022

New Trends in Sustainable Business and Consumption

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The area of Prahova County, with all its values-cultural, social, and economic, allows approaching, in a widely accessible way, the connection between the investors' community and the institutions empowered in the protection of cultural heritage. Cultural heritage is a concept in continuous expansion and development, which sometimes makes it difficult to identify components that need to be protected. How can I protect if I don't know what? Following the connection of conditioning how-how-when-why, this paper aimed to identify the role of information in this logical approach that overlaps with the directions of the approach to cultural heritage management. The research methodology focused on the analysis of preventive archaeological excavations carried out under commercial contracts between the Prahova Museum of History and Archeology and beneficiaries. It highlighted the main opportunities and challenges that rescue interventions may face, emphasizing the role of information beyond rules and procedures. Added value is given by the peculiarities of the investigated archeological sites, i.e the burial mounds from the Bronze Age attributed to the Yamnaya populations.

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“…A defining aspect of the period is the development and change in the economic system from agriculture to pastoral farming which had a positive impact on the mobility of the populations. This mobility is supported by a lack of contemporaneous stable settlements, the presence of wooden wheels for transport carriages in graves, and the identification of herds of horses and cattle (Morgunova and Khokhlova , 304). The main consequence was the transformation of the social paradigm into a patriarchal one, proved by the existence of imposing graves of adult males probably representing the elite (Anthony ).…”

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The dynamics of prehistoric burial mounds of Ploieşti metropolitan area (Romania) as reflected by cartographic documents of the 18th–20th centuries

Frînculeasa¹,

Frînculeasa

Dumitru

et al. 2017

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This paper draws attention to the unexploited potential of cartographic material related to Ploieşti city, Romania, from the oldest reports to the modern. The cartographic document may bring valuable, more often than not original, information in order to improve understandings of behavioural patterns and the evolution of prehistoric communities. The study of the distribution and dynamics of burial mounds (tumuli) associated with the Bronze Age, within the perimeter of Ploieşti city and its metropolitan area, is one of the first applications of this kind of analysis made in Romania, and succeeds in showing the importance of using direct or indirect data from this category of cartographic documents for archaeological studies. Moreover, it demonstrates that, because geosystems and social systems are not static in space and time, a diachronic cartographic study provides the opportunity for a phenomenological focus on the evolutional issues of tumuli – spatiality, boundaries, distances and density.

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Kurgans and nomads: new investigations of mound burials in the southern Urals

Cited by 43 publications

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Sarmatian Mirrors and Han Ingots (100 BC–AD 100): How the Foreign became Local and Vice Versa

Sarmatian Mirrors and Han Ingots (100 BC–AD 100): How the Foreign became Local and Vice Versa

Information: Another Perspective on Cultural Heritage Management

The dynamics of prehistoric burial mounds of Ploieşti metropolitan area (Romania) as reflected by cartographic documents of the 18th–20th centuries

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