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Archaeological context of human remains discovery in the Holocene layers Kapova cave

Zhitenev V.S.

Lomonosov Moscow State University, Faculty of History, Department of Archeology, Moscow

Zhitenev V.S., e-mail: macober@mail.ru

Abstract

The article is devoted to the results of archaeological research of the cultural layer of the Holocene epoch – the Late Bronze Age (Mezhovskaya culture) or the early Iron Age (Gafuriysky site type’s, which was formed on the basis of Mezhovskaya culture) with paleoanthropological materials in Kapova cave in 2009–2012. There were studied the excarnation remains (so-called «secondary») burial in situ. Presented the archaeological context (distribution pattern of calcite sinters, ash, bone materials, ceramic fragments) in the investigated area revealed the burial ground, left Ugric population of Southern Urals mountain forest zone.

Keywords

The Southern Ural, Kapova cave, Mezhovskaya culture, Gafuriysky site type’s, burial ground, excarnation remains burial, Ugric

Цит.: Zhitenev V.S. Archaeological context of human remains discovery in the Holocene layers Kapova cave // Moscow University Anthropology Bulletin (Vestnik Moskovskogo Universiteta. Seria XXIII. Antropologia), 2014; 2/2014; с. 114-121