essay

Excavations of the Aksai kurgans in the Volga-Don region (Russia)

kurgans, ritual sites, and settlements : eurasian bronze and iron ageOxfordPublished In 2000 • Pages: 43-62

By: Dyachenko, A. N., Skripkin, A. S. (Anatoly Stepanovich), Klepikov, V. M., Kubyshkin, A. I. (Aleksandr Ivanovich), Mabe, A..

AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
Dyachenko et alii excavated several kurgans near the Aksai River in Russia. Two kurgans were constructed in the Early Iron Age (Kurgans 2 and 3) and three burials from this cemetery are dated to the Sauromatian Culture, but only one internment (burial 3 of Kurgan 3) had been undisturbed. This internment contained an imported Greek amphora, the first of its kind found in a Sauromatian burial. Only the material pertaining to the Sauromatian Culture was indexed for Outline of Cultural Materials (OCM) codes.
SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
Identification
Burial practices and funerals
Chronologies and culture sequences
traditionCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
Early Nomad
HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
2002
RegionThe area the document pertains to
Asia
Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
Central Asia
Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
essay
Evaluation
Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
Archaeologist
Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
4: Excellent Secondary Data
5: Excellent Primary Data
AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
Sarah Berry ; 2001
Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
1997
Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
2600 BP-2500 BP (600 B.C.-500 B.C.)
Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
Aksai Kurgans; Sauromatian Culture; Russia
NotesAdditional notes
A. N. Dyachenko, A. S. Skripkin, V. M. Klepikov, A. I. Kubyshkin, A. Mabe
Translated from Russian by A. I. Kubyshkin and A. Mabe
Includes bibliographical references (p. 47)
LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
2001320166
LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
Asia, Central--Antiquities