О планировке элитарных некрополей и элитарных участков в некрополях ранних кочевников Степи
On Planning of the Elite Necropolises and the Necropolises' Elite Sections of the Early Steppe Nomads

Summary/Abstract: The main models of planigraphy of the Eurasian Steppe early nomads’ special elite necropolises and elite sections of them were analyzed. Usually such necropolis / section were a string of barrows. In European Steppe the special elite cemeteries were placed near the settlements of agricultural peoples, in the Central Asia — near a small rivers and in the mountain pastures’ zone. For the completion of such elite cemeteries the magic of sacred numbers: 3, 5, 7, 12 were important. The various models of elite sections in the clan barrow necropolises were studied: two parallel strings with big barrows in the eastern one; the big barrows location in the bottom of a hill, near a spring; in the center of string; the string of big barrows as a centerline with small barrows around it; big barrows concentration on the northern border of cemetery; the big barrow create a discharged chain length up to 10 km.

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