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- S0869-60630000402-5-1
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- Article
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- Published
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- Volume / Issue 1
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- 25-35
- Abstract
- The article covers certain aspects of the study of ash-pits, which are a specific feature of Late Bronze Age settlements in Western Siberia. Several facts prove that the ash-pits were constructed intentionally, as a rule on the periphery of the settlement, as accumulating units. Part of the layers consisted of ash brought in together with domestic waste from various dwellings, part (white ash) was formed as a result of intentional burning of light inflammable materials. The fact that ash-pits contained partial burials allows to consider them also as temporary or permanent burial-places. They could also have been used as platforms for exposure (excarnation) and partial burning. These specific archeological features of Late Bronze Age settlements are encountered throughout a wide territory from Western Siberia to the Black Sea region. They testify to the development and cultivation of similar rituals and notions within populations that most probably were ethnically akin and had well-developed production economy, primarily domestic cattle-breeding.
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- Date of publication
- 01.01.2009
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RAS History & PhilologyRussian archeology
- ISSN (Print) 0869-6063
- ISSN (Online)3034-5774
ON WEST SIBERIAN ASH-PITS OF THE LATE BRONZE AGE
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