The Orientation of Bodies Buried in Mounds of the Tomsk Ob Region in the High Middle Ages
Abstract
The article analyzes 278 skeletons or graves from the Astrakhantsevsky burial mound (ABM), the Basandaysky burial mound (BBM), and the burial mound at the mouth of the Malaya Kirgiska River (MKBM) where the skeletons were broken. These sites can be attributed to the Basandaika Culture. They are located in the Tomsky and Shegarsky districts of the Tomsk Region. In all of these burial mounds seven orientations were identified: NE-SW, NNE-SSW, NW-SE, NNWSSE, NS, WE, WNW-ESE. The graves indicating the orientation were marked on the layouts of the burial mounds. The layouts demonstrate separate groups (ABM, MKBM) or several skeletons differently oriented in a single mound (ABM, BBM, MKBM), which could belong to different ethnic groups or ethnographic groups of the same ethnic group.
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