NECK-RING GRAVE IN THE CEMETERY OF KLIN-YAR AND ITS PLACE IN THE HIERARCHY OF PRIVILEGED WOMEN’S BURIALS FROM THE GREAT MIGRATION PERIOD IN THE NORTH CAUCASUS

• Authors: Mastykova Anna
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

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This paper analyses the social rank of a privileged woman’s burial containing a neck-ring and gold ornaments, investigated in the cemetery of Klin-Yar in the North Caucasus (Stavropol region, near the modern city of Kislovodsk). This rare neck-ring with the medallion featuring the inlay style, surely of ‘high-status’ nature, indicated the high social rank of its owner. Parallels to this neck-ring with inlay medallion occurred in the ‘princely’ grave of Bol’shoi Kamenets in the Middle Dnieper area, as well as in Wrocław-Rędzin in modern Poland (this find context remained obscure). The Klin-Yar burial is the only woman’s grave from the Great Migration Period in the central North Caucasus connectable to the supreme category of privileged graves.

Keywords

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NORTH CAUCASUS; PRIVILEGED BURIALS; GREAT MIGRATION; NECK-RINGS; WOMAN

• Publisher: Slovak Academy of Sciences, Archaeological Institute
• Journal: Slovenská archeológia (Slovak Archaeology)
• Year: 2020
• Volume: 68
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 69 – 81

Contributors

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Mastykova Anna

• Institute of Archaeology, 19 Dimitrii Ulianov Str., RU – 117036 Moscow, Russia