EARLY BRONZE AGE NECROPOLIS AT THE SITE OF MEANIŠTE NEAR VRANJE

Journal of Serbian Archaeological Society 29, 2014

In course of salvage excavations at the site of Crkvište in Davidovac near Vranje, remains of prehistoric settlement were encountered, which can be attributed to Early Iron Age and the beggining of Hallstadt, based on properties of style and typology of the finds.

Gold and Bronze. Metals, Technologies and Interregional Contacts in the Eastern Balkans during the Bronze Age, 2018

EBA_MBA Chronology and Precious Metals

In 2007 Joint Mongolian-American “Deer stone” project team has discovered many new archaeological sites in the Darkhad lowland basin of Northern Mongolia. One of them was very interesting circle grave which is related to Middle Bronze Age of Mongolia. The structure and of grave is very similar with graves excavated by archaeologist by D. Erdenebaatar in the west and north Mongolia. He named this type of graves “Munh-hairhan culture”. The grave we excavated is related with 1880-1670 BC according the C14 analytic of the USA. Also the date is almost same with “Munkh-hairhan culture”. But there were no artifacts with body in the grave, only we found some animal bones and ceramic fragments from between the surface rocks. We think those findings are related with the grave.

The edition is logical continuation of the monograph of 2003 on which pages materials of a burial ground of a bronze age the Krivoe Ozero for the first time have been introduced for scientific use. A main objective of the offered project - expansion of an information field in relation to a material world of a burial ground. The book contains about 500 photographic images of pieces of funeral stock, morphological and technical characteristics on metal objects and the analysis of prints of textiles on inside of ceramic vessels. We hope that it in many respects the unusual and innovative edition will draw attention not only archaeological community, but also all interested with ancient history of edge.

Висвітлено матеріали двох поховань епішнурового горизонту пам'яток Волині, досліджених у 2008 р. біля с. Хрінники Рівненської обл. Подано культурно-хронологічну інтерпретацію поховань, а також результати антропологічного дослідження скелетів.

Milorad Ignjatović* A LATE BRONZE AGE HOARD FROM UGRINOVCI NEAR BELGRADE The hoard discovered in the village of Ugrinovci near Belgrade was a chance find which made its way to the Belgrade City Museum as a donation. A survey has established that it came from a stratified site which, to judge from surface finds, includes remains of a Late Bronze Age settlement. The fact that the hoard was associated with a settlement raises questions as to the purpose and possible meaning of the deposition of objects. The amount of objects (219 utilitarian items weighing 5385.75g and 3221.6g of foundry cast-offs) and the structure of the hoard suggest a larger mixed hoard whose features assign it to the “broken horizon” of the regional, Srem and eastern Slavonia, group of the Urnfield period. Typological and chronological analysis of its contents has shown that the mate-rial is roughly datable to Br D – Ha A. the objects dated to Ha A1 show the highest relative frequency, which suggests that the hoard belongs to Hoard Phase II in Vojvodina and central Serbia or to Ha A1 according to central-European terminology. The hoard shows many points of similarity to the one discovered on the site of Ekonomija Sava at Jakovo. So far the two are the only Late Bronze Age hoards discov-ered in a settlement context. Despite a probable chronological distance between them, there are a number of analogies such as, for example, the same settlement pattern involving very similar topographic positions and natural environments. Although hoards are not a frequent occurrence within Bronze Age settlements, the practice of depositing ob- jects within the settlement bounds is known in earlier periods of Balkan prehistory. Most hoards discovered in southeast-European Neolithic and Eneolithic settlements have been interpreted as forgotten treasures of a profane nature. e assumption about their profane nature, however, strongly contradicts the proposed views on the reasons behind the formation of the hoards made up of broken artefacts. Relevant to interpreting the Bronze Age hoards containing a large number of artefacts is also the assumption that they prob-ably were the result of deposition over a long period of time and that, as such, they might have been the community’s “crown jewels”. Is it possible that such treasures sank in oblivion? Similar communal goods are known in traditional African communities. On observed locations in Benin and Ghana similar hoards are enshrined in the king’s house, as a legitimation of the authority of the king, who in his turn plays the role of the guard-ian of the treasure. The disappearance of such goods under the ground round the house probably indicates the end of kingship, though not necessarily the end of the community. Whether votive or not, and even if they are not prompted by external events, such as foreign invasion—deposition of such goods signals the end of the established social relations. All goods of the kind, including the Bronze Age ones, may therefore be said to have passed from one state into another, from the active and “living” into the “dead”, undesired and even dangerous one, which eventually led to their burial.

Plavinski M. A., Tarasevich V. M. PRELIMINARY RESULTS OF THE EXCAVATIONS AT THE NAŬRY II NECROPOLIS DATING TO THE SECOND HALF OF THE FIRST MILLENNIUM AD IN THE CONTEXT OF THE STUDIES OF BURIAL SITES IN THE NORTHERN REGIONS OF THE REPUBLIC OF BELARUS, 2021

The article examines the materials from the excavations of the necropolis Naŭry II (Miadziel district Minsk region), carried out in 2017–2020 by A. Plavinski, M. Plavinski and V. Tarasevich. During four years of excavations in the necropolis Naŭry II 733 sq. meters were studied. As a result of the research it was revealed that the necropolis consists of kurgan barrows with cremation burials and graves with cremations without kurgans. Two cultural and chronological horizons can be identified in the necropolis functioning. The first horizon includes kurgans dating back to the third quarter of I millennium AD. The second horizon includes burials without cremations, which can be attributed to the culture of the Smolensk-Polоtsk long barrows which falls within the broad range of the 8th – early / first half of the 11th centuries.