Tiszakürt-Zsilke-tanya: An interdisciplinary analysis of an Early Avar Period cemetery
Tiszakürt-Zsilke-tanya: An interdisciplinary analysis of an Early Avar Period cemetery
Author(s): Bence Gulyás, Eszter Pásztor, Kristóf Fehér, Csilla Libor, Tamás Szeniczey, László Előd Aradi, Réka Fülöp, Kyra LyublyanovicsSubject(s): Archaeology, 6th to 12th Centuries
Published by: Eötvös Loránd Tudományegyetem
Keywords: Early Avar Period; Trans-Tisza Region; burial rites; beads; XRF analysis; SEM analysis; bioarchaeology; archaeozoology
Summary/Abstract: A cemetery section comprising 35 burials was excavated at the site of Tiszakürt-Zsilke-tanya. The burial rites suggest that the community who interred their dead here was of East European steppe origin, settled primarily east of the Tisza River. The graves were poorly furnished; the main chronological indicators are melon seed-shaped beads and two pairs of earrings with big bead pendants. Based on these, the cemetery section can be dated between the 640s and the 680s. The archaeological analysis is complemented by an anthropological, archaeozoological, and pottery analysis, as well as a study of metal and glass composition.
Journal: Dissertationes Archaeologicae Ser. 3.
- Issue Year: 11/2023
- Issue No: 1
- Page Range: 293-441
- Page Count: 150
- Language: English
