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- Title
Children in the Bronze Age societies of the Southern Trans-Urals (Sintashta, Petrovka and Alakul' cultures).
- Authors
Berseneva, Natalia; Kupriyanova, Elena
- Abstract
This study concerns the Sintashta, Petrovka and Alakul' cultural groups. They are dated from the 21st to the 15th century cal. BC and the sites are located in the Southern Trans-Urals. One of the most impressive traits of the Sintashta, Petrovka and Alakul' burial grounds is that the sub-adults constitute between 50% to 80% of all the deceased. Comparing the variations of children's burial rites, we can conclude that children's status was probably different in these cultures. We can suppose that the Sintashta rite reflected first of all the vertical stratification while the Petrovka and Alakul' ones, the kinship relations.
- Subjects
BRONZE Age; POPULATION aging; CEMETERIES; CULTURE; KINSHIP
- Publication
Archaeologia Polona, 2013, Issue 51/52, p5
- ISSN
0066-5924
- Publication type
Article