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Kurgan Studies: An environmental and archaeological multiproxy study of burial mounds in the Eurasian steppe zone
Ákos Pető and Attila Barczi
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This volume presents a series of archaeological and scientific studies focusing on Kurgans in Hungary and Russia. Kurgans are the burial mounds of Bronze and Copper Age societies that can be traced back to the 4th Millennium cal BC. The Kurgans of the Eurasian steppe zone preserve palaeosoils and represent a fantastic resource for investigating Holocene environmental changes. The studies presented in this volume principally focus on the Lyukas-halom and Csípő-halom kurgans in Hungary and the Skvortsovsky and Labazovsky kurgans in Russia, though there are also several papers that explore the 'wider world' of the Kurgans. On the whole, this volume brings together papers on a multi- and interdisciplinary scale, and sheds light on the current status and state-of-art of kurgan studies.
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Front Cover
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Title Page
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Copyright
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Table of Contents
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Foreword
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Editorial Preface
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List of Contributors
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List of Referees
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Introduction: Requiem for kurgans
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Chapter 1: Perspectives in kurgan studies
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The complex condition assessment survey of kurgans in Hungary
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On the history of the Bronze Age studies in the steppe near the Ural Mountains
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Chapter II: Archaeology
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Research of Pit–Grave culture kurgans in Hungary in the last three decades
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Hajdúnánás–Tedej–Lyukas-halom - An interdisciplinary survey of a typical kurgan from the Great Hungarian Plain region: a case study (The revision of the kurgans from the territory of Hungary)
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Pit–Grave Culture of the South near the Ural Mountains
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Timber–Grave culture in the basin of the Samara as an example of the Skvortsovsky and Labazovsky burial grounds
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Nomads of the steppe near the Ural Mountains in the Middle Ages
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Chapter III: Environmental Sciences
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III./1. Anthropology
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Human remains from the kurgan at Hajdúnánás–Tedej–Lyukas-halom and an anthropological outline of the Pit–Grave ethnic groups
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III./2. Geography, geomorphology, geochemistry
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Mineralogical and geochemical evolution of two kurgans from the Great Hungarian Plain
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Groundwater movements and its geochemical properties around and in the Csípo-halom kurgan
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Geomorphological classification of Hungarian kurgans
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III./3. Pedology, palaeopedology
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Detailed palaeopedological analysis of kurgans of the Great Hungarian Plain
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Soil micromorphological investigations of the buried soil and cultural layers of the Hajdúnánás–Tedej–Lyukas-halom
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Detection of the directional variation of palaeosol properties in the Filippovka 1 kurgan cemetery (Orenburg region, Russia)
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An interpretation of the soil 14C results of the Hajdúnánás–Tedej–Lyukas-halom kurgan
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Short and long-term pedochronosequences of the Skvortsovsky burial ground in the Buzuluk River valley (Orenburg region, Russia)
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The process of the Bolshoi Sintashta Kurgan’s construction (Chelyabinsk region, Russia) in the light of pedological and radiocarbon data
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III./4. Palaeozoology
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A quarter-malacological inventory of Hungarian kurgans
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III./5. Palaeo-ethnobotany
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The usage of wood in burial rites: data obtained from kurgans of the Filippovka-1 burial site
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Archaeobotanical remains of the Late Copper Age from the Carpathian Basin
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Palaeovegetational reconstruction of the Hajdúnánás–Tedej–Lyukas-halom based on combined micropalaeobotanical analysis
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III./6. Botany
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Anthropogenic impacts and management of natural grasslands on kurgans
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Evaluation of vegetational changes in the natural vegetation cover of kurgans (Csípo- and Kántor-halom)
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Effects of extrazonal and climatic conditions on the vegetation of kurgans. A pilot study from the Hortobágy (Csípo-halom)
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Published: 2011
Publisher: BAR Publishing
- 9781407337920 (ebook)
- 9781407308029 (paperback)
BAR Number: S2238