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1 online resource (410 pages). |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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Scales of Transformation Ser. ; v.11
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Scales of Transformation Ser.
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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1.2.3 Stable isotope analyses: Palaeodietary reconstructions -- 2 Research questions and methodological approach -- 2.1 The cemetery "Kudachurt 14" (chapter 3) -- 2.2 Burial practice: Social indicators (chapter 4) -- 2.3 Human remains: Demography and oral health (chapter 5) -- 2.4 Carbon and nitrogen stable isotopes: Palaeodietary reconstruction (chapter 6) -- 2.5 Interdisciplinary synthesis: Burial practice, human osteology, and stable isotopes (chapter 7) -- 2.6 Basic approach and terminology -- 3 The cemetery of Kudachurt 14 -- 3.1 Location and environmental aspects |
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3.2 Excavation and subsequent work -- 3.2.1 Excavation techniques and on-site documentation -- 3.2.2 Inventory, preparation, and current state -- 3.3 Cemetery plan -- 3.4 Finds and chronology -- 3.4 1 Relative chronology and typological classification -- 3.4.2 Radiocarbon dating and stratigraphy -- 3.4.3 Summary: Chronology and typological classification -- 3.5 Kudachurt 14 and the MBA-LBA transition in the Northern Caucasus -- Disciplinary Analyses: Burial Practices, Human remains and isotopes -- 4 Burial practice: Social indicators -- 4.1 Characteristics of burial practice |
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4.1.1 Spatial distribution -- 4.1.2 Elements of grave construction -- 4.1.3 Inhumations and burial type -- 4.1.4 Goods for the dead: burial items -- 4.1.5 Data quality groups -- 4.2 Results 1: Basis of data and single characteristics -- 4.2.1 Elements of grave construction -- 4.2.2 Inhumation and burial types -- 4.2.3 Burial items -- 4.3 Results 2: Social proxies of burial practice -- 4.3.1 Construction elements, burial types and MNIG -- 4.3.2 Construction elements and burial item criteria -- 4.3.3 Burial item criteria: burial types and individuals |
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4.3.4 Burial item criteria: Assemblage functional character and burial type -- 4.3.5 Burial item criteria: Assemblage composition and burial type -- 4.3.6 Burial item criteria: Assemblage functional character and individuals -- 4.3.6.1 Single burials -- 4.3.6.2 Double burials -- 4.3.6.3 Collective burials -- 4.3.6.4 Bodily treatment -- 4.3.6.5 Interim result: Individual equipment -- 4.4 Chronological aspects -- 4.5 Discussion and evaluation: Burial practice and social indicators -- 4.5.1 Grave constructions: Proxies for effort or practicability? -- 4.5.2 Regularities of bodily treatment? |
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4.5.3 Burial item criteria: Cemetery. |
| Summary |
Representing both a barrier and a corridor between the Eurasian and Asian continents, the Caucasus has constituted the setting for various socio-economic transformations throughout prehistory. The transition from the Middle to the Late Bronze Age in the Northern Caucasus is a period characterised by a shift from pastoral lifeways in the steppe to sedentary lifestyles in the high mountains, and the change from hierarchical to egalitarian societies. In this cont. |
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eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
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Excavations (Archaeology) -- Russia (Federation) -- Caucasus, Northern.
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Human remains (Archaeology) -- Russia (Federation) -- Caucasus, Northern.
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Bronze age -- Russia (Federation) -- Caucasus, Northern.
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Diet -- Russia (Federation) -- Caucasus, Northern -- History.
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Kudachurt Site (Russia)
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Caucasus, Northern (Russia) -- Social conditions.
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Caucasus, Northern (Russia) -- Antiquities.
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Antiquities. |
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Bronze age. |
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Diet. |
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Excavations (Archaeology) |
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Human remains (Archaeology) |
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Social conditions. |
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Russia (Federation) -- Northern Caucasus. |
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Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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History.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Fuchs, K. Interdisciplinary Analysis of the Cemetery Kudachurt 14 Leiden : Sidestone Press,c2020 9789088909030 |
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9088909059 |
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9789088909054 (electronic book) |
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9789088909030 |
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9088909032 |
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9789088909047 |
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9088909040 |
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