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Pervobytnaia arkheologiia. Zhurnal mezhdistsiplinarnykh issledovanii
Prehistoric Archaeology. Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies
Institute for the History of Material Culture RAS

PAJIS

ISSN 2658-3925
Pervobytnaia arkheologiia. Zhurnal mezhdistsiplinarnykh issledovanii
Prehistoric Archaeology. Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies

Semenov A. V., Kasparov A. К. Faunal remains from the burials of the 2nd–1st millennia BC in Tuva: Main results and perspectives of the study (based on the materials excavated by the Tuva Archaeological Expedition of IHMC RAS in 2010– 2018).

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Abstract. The article deals with faunal remains from the Late Bronze — Early Iron Age burials of Tuva (from the middle of the 2nd to the end of the 1st mil. BC.) obtained in the course of archaeological excavations conducted by the Tuva Expedition of IHMK RAS in 2010–2018. The authors analize both scattered bone fragments of various animals and intact skeletons or skeletal parts found in situ in burial contexts. In some cases these bones seem to represent leftovers of funeral food, whereas in other cases the animals might have been buried to serve as livestock in the “other world”. Some of the burials contain accumulations of sheep and goat skulls belonging to all the main age and sex groups: newborn, young and old animals, males and females. These accumulations are thought to symbolize the herds. One of the promising ways for extracting cultural information from osteological collections is associated with the possibility to determine the seasonality of funerals based on the age of young animals whose bones were found in burial contexts. This method has been extensively used by the authors and produced interesting results which are discussed in the final section of the paper.

Keywords: Tuva, faunal remains, Bronze Age, Mongun-Taiga culture, Aldy-Bel culture, Uyuk-Saglyn culture, Ozen-Ala-Beligsky stage.

Received 28.03.2020, revised 28.05.2020, accepted 23.07.2020.

DOI: 10.31600/2658-3925-2020-2-89-121

For citation: Semenov A. V., Kasparov A. К. Faunal remains from the burials of the 2nd–1st millennia BC in Tuva: Main results and perspectives of the study (based on the materials excavated by the Tuva Archaeological Expedition of IHMC RAS in 2010– 2018). Prehistoric Archaeology. Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies. 2020 (2), 89-121 (in Russ.). DOI: 10.31600/2658-3925-2020-2-89-121

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