Title Interdisciplinary Analysis of the Cemetery Kudachurt 14 Evaluating Indicators of Social Inequality, Demography, Oral Health and Diet During the Bronze Age Key Period 2200-1650 BCE in the Northern Caucasus

Published Leiden : Sidestone Press, 2020

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Description 1 online resource (410 p.) Series Scales of Transformation Ser. ; v.11 Scales of Transformation Ser Contents 1.2.3 Stable isotope analyses: Palaeodietary reconstructions -- 2 Research questions and methodological approach -- 2.1 The cemetery "Kudachurt 14" (chapter 3) -- 2.2 Burial practice: Social indicators (chapter 4) -- 2.3 Human remains: Demography and oral health (chapter 5) -- 2.4 Carbon and nitrogen stable isotopes: Palaeodietary reconstruction (chapter 6) -- 2.5 Interdisciplinary synthesis: Burial practice, human osteology, and stable isotopes (chapter 7) -- 2.6 Basic approach and terminology -- 3 The cemetery of Kudachurt 14 -- 3.1 Location and environmental aspects 3.2 Excavation and subsequent work -- 3.2.1 Excavation techniques and on-site documentation -- 3.2.2 Inventory, preparation, and current state -- 3.3 Cemetery plan -- 3.4 Finds and chronology -- 3.4 1 Relative chronology and typological classification -- 3.4.2 Radiocarbon dating and stratigraphy -- 3.4.3 Summary: Chronology and typological classification -- 3.5 Kudachurt 14 and the MBA-LBA transition in the Northern Caucasus -- Disciplinary Analyses: Burial Practices, Human remains and isotopes -- 4 Burial practice: Social indicators -- 4.1 Characteristics of burial practice 4.1.1 Spatial distribution -- 4.1.2 Elements of grave construction -- 4.1.3 Inhumations and burial type -- 4.1.4 Goods for the dead: burial items -- 4.1.5 Data quality groups -- 4.2 Results 1: Basis of data and single characteristics -- 4.2.1 Elements of grave construction -- 4.2.2 Inhumation and burial types -- 4.2.3 Burial items -- 4.3 Results 2: Social proxies of burial practice -- 4.3.1 Construction elements, burial types and MNIG -- 4.3.2 Construction elements and burial item criteria -- 4.3.3 Burial item criteria: burial types and individuals 4.3.4 Burial item criteria: Assemblage functional character and burial type -- 4.3.5 Burial item criteria: Assemblage composition and burial type -- 4.3.6 Burial item criteria: Assemblage functional character and individuals -- 4.3.6.1 Single burials -- 4.3.6.2 Double burials -- 4.3.6.3 Collective burials -- 4.3.6.4 Bodily treatment -- 4.3.6.5 Interim result: Individual equipment -- 4.4 Chronological aspects -- 4.5 Discussion and evaluation: Burial practice and social indicators -- 4.5.1 Grave constructions: Proxies for effort or practicability? -- 4.5.2 Regularities of bodily treatment? Summary Representing both a barrier and a corridor between the Eurasian and Asian continents, the Caucasus has constituted the setting for various socio-economic transformations throughout prehistory. The transition from the Middle to the Late Bronze Age in the Northern Caucasus is a period characterised by a shift from pastoral lifeways in the steppe to sedentary lifestyles in the high mountains, and the change from hierarchical to egalitarian societies. In this cont Notes Description based upon print version of record 4.5.3 Burial item criteria: Cemetery Subject Excavations (Archaeology) -- Russia (Federation) -- Caucasus, Northern Human remains (Archaeology) -- Russia (Federation) -- Caucasus, Northern Bronze age -- Russian (Federation) -- Caucasus, Northern Diet -- Russia (Federation) -- Caucasus, Northern -- History Prehistoric archaeology. Antiquities Bronze age Diet Excavations (Archaeology) Human remains (Archaeology) Social conditions SUBJECT Kudachurt Site (Russia) Caucasus, Northern (Russia) -- Social conditions Caucasus, Northern (Russia) -- Antiquities Subject Russia (Federation) -- Northern Caucasus Genre/Form History Form Electronic book ISBN 9088909059 9789088909054

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