- PII
- S0869-60630000354-2-1
- DOI
- 10.7868/S30000354-2-1
- Publication type
- Article
- Status
- Published
- Authors
- Volume/ Edition
- Volume / Issue 3
- Pages
- 28-45
- Abstract
- This paper deals with gender indicators and markers of social stratification yielded by the burials of the late phase of the Sambian-Natangian culture of the Aestians of the mid-5th–7th centuries AD. The data of physical anthropology enable us to differentiate male, female, and children’s grave goods. Three levels of burials can be tentatively distinguished from grave goods and certain funerary rites, i.e. (1) privileged tombs with relatively rich grave goods including prestigious costume elements, weapons, horse harness items, and drinking horns; (2) ‘middle class’ tombs with standard grave goods including ornaments from cheap non-ferrous metals, and some weapons; (3) tombs of lower classes either practically lacking in grave goods or containing but pottery. Territorial groups probably corresponding to Aestian policies can be revealed.
- Keywords
- Sambian-Natangian culture, Aestians, great migrations, Merovingian time, funerary rites, gender markers, social stratification
- Date of publication
- 01.07.2017
- Year of publication
- 2017
- Number of purchasers
- 4
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- 688
RAS History & PhilologyРоссийская археология Russian archeology
- ISSN (Print) 0869-6063
- ISSN (Online) 3034-5774
MARKERS OF SOCIAL STRATIFICATION AMONG THE BEARERS OF THE SAMBIAN-NATANGIAN CULTURE IN THE EARLY MIDDLE AGES (THE MID-5TH–7TH CENTURIES AD)
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