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Boy Hunter Burial from Staroe Kirgizovo Burial Ground of the Pyany Bor Culture

Zubov S.E., Liphanov N.A., Roslyakova N.V. (Samara, Russian Federation), Sattarov R.R. (Kazan, Russian Federation)

UDC 902/904

DOI: https://doi.org/10.24852/pa2021.1.35.65.77

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The paper presents the materials from burial No. 53 of the Staroe Kirgizovo burial ground of the Pyany Bor culture from the territory of the Ik and Belaya interfluve (excavations of 2016). The burial is approximately dated to the second half of the 1^st century BC – the 1^st century AD. It was a burial of a 7–8–year old child which contained a large and partly unique inventory, which was vary different from the average children's burials with scarce inventory of this cultural community. The buried was accompanied with various costume adornments made of bronze and bone, bladed and ranged weapons (a combat knife and a set of iron and bone arrowheads). Of particular interest is the accompanying complex of carved upper and lower jaws of small carnivorous animals. This set of finds is interpreted by the authors of the paper as hunting trophies of the buried boy.

Keywords

archaeologyIk and Belaya interfluveEarly Iron Agethe Pyany Bor cultureburial groundburial

About the author(s)

Zubov Sergey E. Candidate of Historical Sciences, Head of the Laboratory. Samara National Research University. Moskovskoye shosse, 34, Samara, 443086, Russian Federation; guberfond@rambler.ru

Liphanov Nikolay A. Candidate of Historical Sciences. Samara National Research University. Moskovskoye shosse, 34, Samara, 443086, Russian Federation; liphanov@gmail.com

Roslyakova Natalya V. Candidate of Historical Sciences. Samara State University of Social Sciences and Education. M. Gorkogo St., 65/67, Samara, 443099, Russian Federation; roslyakova_n@mail.ru

Sattarov Ruzil R. Candidate of Historical Sciences. Associated professor, Kazan (Volga Region) Federal University. Kremlyovskaya St., 18, Kazan, 420000, the Republic of Tatarstan, Russian Federation; Institute of Archaeology named after A.Kh. Khalikov, Tatarstan Academy of Sciences. Butlerov St., 30, Kazan, 420012, the Republic of Tatarstan, Russian Federation; sattarov.rr@rambler.ru