Moscow University
Anthropology
Bulletin
Anthropology
Bulletin
Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia
Sataev Robert, e-mail: rob-sataev@mail.ru.
On the Bronze Age settlement Gonur-depe, ways of ritual use of animals can be divided into three main groups. The first group of animal remains from burials includes: 1) some dissected parts of animal carcasses placed in the burial as a farewell food; 2) full and uneviscerated animal carcass placed in the burial as an offering to the higher powers; 3) animals placed entirely in the burial, buried next to it or in concomitant construction, to accompany the deceased to the underworld and become part of its property; 4) full animal carcass in a cenotaph replaced the deceased and buried according to the existing burial rites; 5) some carcass parts of one or more different animals placed in the burial and laid out in a certain order; 6) grave goods from animal bones (including unprocessed isolated corneous rods and astragals). Thus different forms of animal use are often combined. The second group includes separate animal burials or their parts: 1) animals were completely buried in a specially prepared pit or ditch (with grave goods or without); 2) the full animal carcass buried in a specially prepared pit in the dissected form, laid out in a certain order; 3) buried isolated animal parts (mainly the head or horns); 4) parts of the carcasses of animals (or meat food) put in a vessel. The third group includes burials of the cremated animals or their parts: 1) entirely cremated animal carcasses left by the burning; 2) the cremated animal remains placed in specially arranged and issued poles; 3) the remains of burned animals placed in a specially arranged structures in the form of cysts.
Bronze Age, Gonur-depe, animal remains, burials
Цит.: Sataev Robert ANIMALS IN THE FUNERAL RITE AND RITUAL PRACTICE OF THE ANCIENT POPULATION OF GONUR-DEPE // Moscow University Anthropology Bulletin (Vestnik Moskovskogo Universiteta. Seria XXIII. Antropologia), 2014; 3/2014; с. 108-108
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