Interdisciplinary Analysis of the Cemetery Kudachurt 14 Evaluating Indicators of Social Inequality, Demography, Oral Health and Diet During the Bronze Age Key Period 2200-1650 BCE in the Northern Caucasus.

Interdisciplinary Analysis of the Cemetery Kudachurt 14 Evaluating Indicators of Social Inequality, Demography, Oral Health and Diet During the Bronze Age Key Period 2200-1650 BCE in the Northern Caucasus.

Representing both a barrier and a corridor between the Eurasian and Asian continents, the Caucasus has constituted the setting for various socio-economic transformations throughout prehistory. The transition from the Middle to the Late Bronze Age in the Northern Caucasus is a period characterised by...

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Main Author: Fuchs, K.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Leiden : Sidestone Press, 2020
Series:Scales of Transformation Ser.
Subjects:
Excavations (Archaeology) > Russia (Federation) > Caucasus, Northern.
Human remains (Archaeology) > Russia (Federation) > Caucasus, Northern.
Bronze age > Russian (Federation) > Caucasus, Northern.
Diet > Russia (Federation) > Caucasus, Northern > History.
Kudachurt Site (Russia)
Caucasus, Northern (Russia) > Social conditions.
Caucasus, Northern (Russia) > Antiquities.
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • 1.2.3 Stable isotope analyses: Palaeodietary reconstructions
  • 2 Research questions and methodological approach
  • 2.1 The cemetery "Kudachurt 14" (chapter 3)
  • 2.2 Burial practice: Social indicators (chapter 4)
  • 2.3 Human remains: Demography and oral health (chapter 5)
  • 2.4 Carbon and nitrogen stable isotopes: Palaeodietary reconstruction (chapter 6)
  • 2.5 Interdisciplinary synthesis: Burial practice, human osteology, and stable isotopes (chapter 7)
  • 2.6 Basic approach and terminology
  • 3 The cemetery of Kudachurt 14
  • 3.1 Location and environmental aspects
  • 3.2 Excavation and subsequent work
  • 3.2.1 Excavation techniques and on-site documentation
  • 3.2.2 Inventory, preparation, and current state
  • 3.3 Cemetery plan
  • 3.4 Finds and chronology
  • 3.4 1 Relative chronology and typological classification
  • 3.4.2 Radiocarbon dating and stratigraphy
  • 3.4.3 Summary: Chronology and typological classification
  • 3.5 Kudachurt 14 and the MBA-LBA transition in the Northern Caucasus
  • Disciplinary Analyses: Burial Practices, Human remains and isotopes
  • 4 Burial practice: Social indicators
  • 4.1 Characteristics of burial practice
  • 4.1.1 Spatial distribution
  • 4.1.2 Elements of grave construction
  • 4.1.3 Inhumations and burial type
  • 4.1.4 Goods for the dead: burial items
  • 4.1.5 Data quality groups
  • 4.2 Results 1: Basis of data and single characteristics
  • 4.2.1 Elements of grave construction
  • 4.2.2 Inhumation and burial types
  • 4.2.3 Burial items
  • 4.3 Results 2: Social proxies of burial practice
  • 4.3.1 Construction elements, burial types and MNIG
  • 4.3.2 Construction elements and burial item criteria
  • 4.3.3 Burial item criteria: burial types and individuals
  • 4.3.4 Burial item criteria: Assemblage functional character and burial type
  • 4.3.5 Burial item criteria: Assemblage composition and burial type
  • 4.3.6 Burial item criteria: Assemblage functional character and individuals
  • 4.3.6.1 Single burials
  • 4.3.6.2 Double burials
  • 4.3.6.3 Collective burials
  • 4.3.6.4 Bodily treatment
  • 4.3.6.5 Interim result: Individual equipment
  • 4.4 Chronological aspects
  • 4.5 Discussion and evaluation: Burial practice and social indicators
  • 4.5.1 Grave constructions: Proxies for effort or practicability?
  • 4.5.2 Regularities of bodily treatment?

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