ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND NATURAL SCIENTIFIC STUDIES OF PIT-GRAVE CULTURE  BARROWS IN THE VOLGA-URAL INTERFLUVE Cover Image

ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND NATURAL SCIENTIFIC STUDIES OF PIT-GRAVE CULTURE BARROWS IN THE VOLGA-URAL INTERFLUVE
ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND NATURAL SCIENTIFIC STUDIES OF PIT-GRAVE CULTURE BARROWS IN THE VOLGA-URAL INTERFLUVE

Author(s): Nina L. Morgunova, Mikhail Turetskij
Subject(s): History, Archaeology
Published by: Teaduste Akadeemia Kirjastus
Keywords: Pit-Grave culture; Volga-Ural Region;Paleopedology

Summary/Abstract: The aim of the paper is to provide the research results concerning the Pit-Grave culture sites of the south Ural region, which is a part of the Volga-Ural interfluve. The Pit-Grave culture developed mostly out of the Khvalynsk Eneolithic culture at the turn of the 5th–4th millennium cal BC. People of the Sredny Stog and forest-steppe Eneolithic cultures from the Middle Volga region also influenced the Pit-Grave culture. The paper considers the radiocarbon data (more than 120 dates), specifies the periodization of the Pit-Grave culture of the Volga-Ural interfluve, singles out the three stages of its development. The chronology of the culture is determined 3900–2300 cal BC. The authors provide new information about the Pit-Grave economy. Paleopedology, palynology, anthropology, metallography, ceramic technical, and technological analyses were used together with archaeological methods to make a more detailed description of the culture.

  • Issue Year: 20/2016
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 128-149
  • Page Count: 22
  • Language: English
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