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Silos and granery pits within medieval Europe. A typological study: the case of Miranduolo (Siena, Italy)

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Giaquinta R.
Sprawozdania Archeologiczne
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2011
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vol. 63
175-187
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The process of storing food has always been a critical social and economic problem and, as such, a truly relevant issue for material culture. In early medieval times the control of resources like food supplies represented, in Western Europe, a real marker of economic power. During dark ages, food supplies were stored inside different structures, related to single dwellings; such structures were totally under the control of local elites except for small storages representing nuclear supplies. In Slavic Eastern Europe these cases were not exceptions: each dwelling was typically associated with a storing structure, be it a granary pit or a silo. The aim of this work is to present different examples of pits within western and eastern European contexts. Seven typologies were identified in the European literature. The present catalogue is based upon forty-four settlements ranging between the 6th and the 12th century, with a more detailed analysis on the settlement of Miranduolo (Siena).
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NEOLITICKÝ HROB (?) A KULTOVÝ OBJEKT ZO STARŠEJ DOBY BRONZOVEJ V NITRE-DOLNÝCH KRŠKANOCH

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Ruttkay M.
Slovenská archeológia (Slovak Archaeology)
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2020
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vol. 68
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issue suppl 1
537 – 552
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In 2003, a feature – presumably a grave – was uncovered during an investigation in the southern part of Nitra-Dolné Krškany. Based on the radiocarbon dating, the grave was dated to the end of the Late Neolithic (5830 ±40 BP) – most likely the phase I of Lengyel culture. Due to the violation of the contexts, it was impossible to determine whether the feature was a grave within a settlement or a burial at the bottom of a storage pit. We were also able to obtain new knowledge about the feature no. 16 – a conical storage pit with five skeletons lying on its bottom. The radiocarbon dating indicates that the feature could be dated between 3570 ±35 and 3550 ±35 BP. Feature no. 16 can be linked with Nitra culture, probably its Nitra-Únětice phase. The context indicates that the bodies were intentionally deposited in the feature (not discarded). The central skeleton is, most likely, a man in a so-called frog position with arms in an artificial adoration gesture. Above him was laid a child who apparently died violently. The find allows various interpretations. However, the author prefers the explanation that the deceased were intentionally deposited in the grave with a certain cult intention.
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