scholarly journals A recently discovered Jurchen burial ground in Primorye

2018 ◽  
Vol 17 (5) ◽  
pp. 109-119
Author(s):  
N. G. Artemieva
Keyword(s):  
Far East ◽  
Archaeological Site ◽  
Social Contexts ◽  
Burial Ground ◽  
Funeral Rites ◽  
Religious Buildings ◽  
Jin Dynasty ◽  
The Far East ◽  
The Village ◽  
Burial Grounds

Purpose. The Manchus’ ancestors, the Jurchen people who established the Jin Dynasty (1115-1234) and the Eastern Xia State (1215-1233) on the territory of the Far East, constructed many sites dated back to those periods in Primorye. Mostly, the sites are walled town, settlements and religious buildings. Up to the present day, the Jurchen burial grounds have remained a highly disputable issue and require more detailed descriptions and more accurate dating. Such a burial ground was found 2 km southeast from the village of Novitskoye in the Partizansky District of Primorye. In the article, we analyze and date the artifacts discovered. Results. The archaeological site is located on the creek valley that is 600 m wide extending from the east to the west. The burial ground is located in a deep mountain glen closed on three sides. Fifteen platform-based graves were excavated there. We have determined that all the bodies buried there had been cremated. The ash was put into a ceramic or wooden urn and then placed onto a flat stone on the bottom of the burial pit. After that, the urn was covered with another flat stone and some wooden pieces. One of the graves was constructed on a high basement decorated with two rows of stones. A «devitalized» (embowed) sword was put over the quiver with eleven arrowheads and some remains of bone dust found on the southwestern side of the basement. A grave house made of river gravels, stones or roofing tiles was erected over the grave. Then the pieces of wood were burnt, all the graveside decorations were covered up with soil. As a result, the grave turned into a small mound. We compared the funeral rites and the constructive features of the burial ground in Novitskoye to those of the previously excavated sites and discovered certain similarities in the cremation rituals and some differences in details of the burial constructions. Conclusion. The burial ground of Novitskoye gives archaeologists an opportunity to outline a more comprehensive concept of the Jurchen funeral traditions of the XII–XIII centuries and associate them with the Buddhist funeral ceremony. It was done by determining the ceremonial features, researching the burial constructions excavated and analyzing their chronological and social contexts.

scholarly journals HISTORICAL AND CULTURAL RELATIONS OF THE POPULATION OF THE BASIN OF VYCHEGDA AND THE UPPER KAMA RIVERS IN THE MIDDLE AGES (BASED ON THE MATERIALS OF THE VYM AND RODANOVO ARCHAEOLOGICAL CULTURES)

2021 ◽  
pp. 70-80
Author(s):  
E. A. Savelyeva ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Middle Ages ◽  
Burial Ground ◽  
Cultural Relations ◽  
Funeral Rites ◽  
Funeral Rite ◽  
Cultural Proximity ◽  
Archaeological Cultures ◽  
And Linguistics ◽  
Burial Grounds ◽  
Underground Burial

The latest materials of the excavations of medieval sites in the Vychegda basin and the Upper Kama region confirm the ethno-cultural proximity of the Rodanovo and Vym archaeological cultures associated with the related peoples – the ancestors of the Komi-Permians and Komi-Zyryans, which was proved by A.P. Smirnov, V.A. Oborin, A.F. Melnichuk, R.D. Goldina and other researchers. It can be traced in the most conservative, traditional elements of culture – in funeral rites, ceramics, and women's costume decorations. Both cultures are characterized by underground burial grounds, burials in which are made by the method of inhumation and cremation. Ceramics are represented by stucco vessels of cup-shaped and pot-shaped forms, ornamented with comb, rosette stamp, and cord prints. Common adornments of women's costume are umbonoid, arched, anchor and bronze bi-anchor rattle pendants, a variety of tubular thread decorations. The greatest affinity to the Rodanovo culture is found in the sites adjacent to the Upper Kama areas – Sysola, Mid-Vychegda, dating back to the 10th – 11th, 11th – 12th centuries. On the Sysola river, three burial grounds were investigated, different from the Vym, Mid- and Low Vychegda ones. The Votcha burial ground on the Middle Sysola river, dating back to the 10th – 11th centuries, refers to the earliest ones. According to the funeral rite and ware implements, it shows the greatest cultural proximity to the sites of the Kama region, which is most likely due to the relocation of a small group of the Kama population to the Sysola basin. The Uzhga I and II burial grounds on the Upper Sysola are distinguished by their great originality. The burial rite of the Uzhga burial grounds is characterized by dismembered burials, burials of individual skulls, and the tradition of deliberate destruction of graves for ritual purposes. These features of the funeral rite find analogies in the Upper Kama burial grounds, in particular, Averino I in the Afanasyevsky district of the Kirov region, as well as Plotnitsy, located in the Kudymkar district of the Perm region. It is most likely that the population that had left Uzhga burial grounds, was part of the same territorial–tribal association as the northern Upper Kama population, associated with Zyuzdino Komi-Permians, which is confirmed by the data of ethnography and linguistics. The infiltration of the Rodanovo population into the Vychegda basin in the 11th and 12th centuries is documented by the excavations of the Chezhtyyag and Vym Kichilkos I burial grounds. They belong to the Vym culture of the Vychegda Perm, the early complexes of which, dating from the 11th –12th centuries, may be associated with the Rodanovo newcomers. In the burial 37 of the Chezhtyyag burial ground, a characteristic Rodanovo women's costume is represented. At the Kichilkos I burial ground, numerous highly artistic Bulgar silver articles from the Kama region were found, as well as typical Rodanovo decorations, stucco vessels similar in shape and ornamentation, and burials that show the greatest similarity to the Early Rodanovo ones. These materials testify not only to the active trade and cultural relations between the population of the Vym and Rodanovo cultures, but also to the infiltration of the Upper Kama Rodanovo groups into the Vychegda basin in the 11th and 12th centuries.

scholarly journals Research by S. M. Sergeev at the burial complex near the village Maima-Chergachak

2021 ◽  
Vol 16 ◽  
pp. 132-137
Author(s):  
S. S. Radovsky ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Burial Ground ◽  
The West ◽  
Funeral Rite ◽  
The Right ◽  
High Degree ◽  
The Village ◽  
Burial Grounds ◽  
Grave Goods

The article presents the results of the work of S. M. Sergeev at the burial complex near the village. Maima. In 1934, after being transferred to the Oirot Regional Museum, the researcher unearthed two mounds of the Scythian-Saka period at this burial ground. According to the characteristics of the funeral rite and grave goods, the necropolis under consideration, with a high degree of probability, belongs to the Bystryan culture of the northern foothills of Altai. Currently, on the right bank of the Katun, in the vicinity of the designated village, three burial grounds of the community under consideration(Maima VI, VII, XIX) are known, however, all of them are located east of the Chuisky tract,while the indicated monument is located to the west of it. Perhaps S. M. Sergeev recorded another burial ground of the Bystryanskaya culture, which is now not preserved, located on the territory of the Maiminsky archaeological complex.

Early Phase of Lusatian Culture barrow burial ground in Lower Silesia at Mikowice, Opole Voivodship site 1

Antiquity ◽  
1991 ◽  
Vol 65 (248) ◽  
pp. 651-661 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elżbieta Kłosińska
Keyword(s):  
Early Phase ◽  
Burial Ground ◽  
The West ◽  
Sand Pits ◽  
The Village ◽  
Burial Grounds ◽  
Lower Silesia

To the west of the village of Mikowice (which lies 40 krn southeast of Wrocław) inside a large wooded tract on an extensive kame plateau a dozen or so barrow fields were discovered (FIGURE 1) in the 1920s-30s. The two largest burial grounds (the ‘western’ and ‘eastern’ fields) comprise some 3 to 4 score tumuli (FIGURE 2) .The ‘western’ burial ground has for many years attracted the attention of archaeologists. Following a meticulous recording and preparation of a contour plan of the site between 1926 and 1934 (Hellmich 1938: 226–28), 11 features were excavated under the supervision of L.F. Zotz, G. Raschke, K. Tackenberg and K. Petersen of Breslau (modern Wroclaw) (Zotz 1930: 81–4; 1934: 108–12). The excavations had a rescue character as intensive extraction in adjacent sand pits was seriously damaging the cemetery, having reduced the surviving number of barrows to 24.

scholarly journals FEATURES OF OCCASIONAL RITES AND FOLK BELIEFS OF BELARUSIAN PEASANT MIGRANTS

2020 ◽  
pp. 147-155
Author(s):  
R. Yu. Fedorov ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Far East ◽  
Past Century ◽  
Far East Of Russia ◽  
Way Of Life ◽  
Folk Beliefs ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Far East ◽  
Livestock Health ◽  
The Village ◽  
Made In

The article is devoted to the features of occasional rites and folk beliefs of the descendants of Belarusian peasant migrants of the second half of the 19th – early 20th centuries who lived in Siberia and the Far East of Russia. The degree of their preservation and transformation has been investigated on the basis of comparing the author's field materials with ethnographic descriptions made in the places of the migrants’ departure. The features of the occasional rites and folk beliefs remained unevenly in the memory of the descendants of the Belarusian migrants. Their oral stories most frequently contain the descriptions of pluvial magic and apotropaic actions aimed at protecting estate as well as human and livestock health. In some cases, animistic representations of the surrounding world have been replaced by the elements of Christian rites. In the ethnographic descriptions of the 19th – early 20th centuries, the space of superstitions and occasional rites covers not only the village itself, but natural environment surrounding it (forests, fields, rivers, etc.) as well. Today it has become increasingly limited to the boundaries of private estates. The forms of occasional rites and folk beliefs that have retained its practical value in transforming the way of life of the East Slavic village of Siberia and the Far East over the past century continue to exist.

scholarly journals RESEARCHS OF KURGANS No. 33 AND 34 AT THE BURIAL GRAVE OF TAUSAMALY

2021 ◽  
Vol 69 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
A. Umarkhojiyev ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Similar Type ◽  
Entire Group ◽  
Burial Ground ◽  
Archaeological Research ◽  
State Farm ◽  
Funeral Rites ◽  
Field Season ◽  
The Republic ◽  
New Research ◽  
Burial Grounds

The article presents the materials of archaeological research carried out in the field season of 2020 in the Aksu district, Almaty region of the Republic of Kazakhstan, by the employees of the Archaeological Expedition LLP. The works were carried out on mounds 33 and 34 of the Tausamaly burial ground. The burial ground consists of more than 80 embankments and occupies the entire alluvial cone of the Aksu River. The planigraphy of the burial ground, the construction of embankments, specific non-burial structures and the presence of a Pazyryk appearance on the northern outskirts of the monument (emergency excavations in 2019) made it possible to attribute the Tausamals to the Late Pazyryk type. As a result of new research, burials in stone boxes, on the back, with their heads in the northwestern sector, were revealed under the mounds of the mounds. Accompanying inventory and funeral rites allow the monuments to be dated to the end of the 1st millennium BC. Analogies are found in a small group of burials in stone and wooden boxes on the territory of Zhetysu. A similar type is found scattered among the mounds of the Sako-Usun time in the burial grounds of Kadyrbai III, at the Chilik tobacco state farm, Kzyl-Espe and others dating from the 4th century. BC. until the IV century. AD Newly examined burials in boxes supplement the available data, and their finding in a burial ground with pronounced Pazyryk features makes it possible to establish links for the entire group with the burial traditions of the nomads of Sayan-Altai and Mongolia at the end of the 1st millennium BC. and the turn of the era.

Is there a regional culture in Russia? Opportunities of using a sociocultural approach in economics

2020 ◽  
pp. 108-126 ◽  
Author(s):  
V. A. Bryzgalin ◽  
Е. N. Nikishina
Keyword(s):  
Far East ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Regional Culture ◽  
Russian Regions ◽  
Geographical Patterns ◽  
Cross Cultural Differences ◽  
The Far East ◽  
Sociocultural Approach ◽  
Critical Issues ◽  
Russian Universities

The paper investigates cross-cultural differences across Russian regions using the methodology of G. Hofstede. First, it discusses the most common approaches in measuring culture and the application of the Hofstede methodology in subnational studies. It identifies the critical issues in measuring culture at the regional level and suggests several strategies to address them. Secondly, the paper introduces subregional data on individualism and uncertainty avoidance using a survey of students across 27 Russian universities. The data allow to establish geographical patterns of individualism in Russia. It is demonstrated that collectivism is most prevalent in the Volga region, while individualism characteristic becomes stronger towards the Far East. The findings are robust to the inclusion of various controls and different specifications of the regression model. Finally, the paper provides a discussion about the potential of applying the sociocultural approach in economics.

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