Open AccessChildren and teenagers’ burials dated back to the beginning of the Cooper-Bronze Age on the example of the Maikop-Novosvobdnenskoe community
Author(s) -
S. N. Korenevskiy
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
samarskij naučnyj vestnik
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2782-3016
pISSN - 2309-4370
DOI - 10.17816/snv201764203
Subject(s) - ornaments , inheritance (genetic algorithm) , archaeology , bronze age , bronze , ancient history , history , geography , biology , biochemistry , style (visual arts) , gene
The paper is aimed to discuss the problem of children and teenagers burials of the Maikop-Novosvobdnenskoe community (MNC) located in the Caucasus region. Childrens burials of the Galugaevsko-Sereginskiy, the Dolinsky variants and the Novosvobdnenskaya group are rare, but there are weapons and gold ornaments. This situation suggests transferring a high status of their parents by inheritance to the child. But the Psekupskiy variant reflects other situation. Childrens burials in its monuments look like childrens cemetery or burials of adults in kurgans and in earth graves. They do not contain weapons, tools or ornaments of copper and gold. It is possible to observe that burials of children are in big vessels. That tradition often depended on the degree of the society development.