{"title":"On the Series of Stone Slabs with Sarmatian Tamga Signs in Odessa Archaeological Museum","authors":"S. Yatsenko, E. Shevchenko, Valerii Usenko","doi":"10.55086/sp226277311","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.55086/sp226277311","url":null,"abstract":"The analysis of 4 stone slabs with a series of Sarmatian tamgas is based on a series of new detailed photos and on the interpretation of influence of geological factors on the modern appearance of the slabs. The Sarmatian slabs from Olbia and Krivoi Rog were installed vertically, probably on top of the hills. Later these steles were tipped face up and covered with earth, which may be due to meteorological magic. The peasants who found them later worshipped them. In Olbia depicts the scene of the conclusion of the union, where 4 hands hold different vessels and are accompanied by tamgas. In the center is tamga 6, associated with Crimean Sarmatians. Here are the signs of clans of Crimea and DonBasin, which were depicted in two stages. In Krivoi Rog 50 tamgas of 46 types are engraved around the head of the Master of Animals, which were applied for about 3 centuries. The earliest signs are associated with the Kuban and Crimea. Since the middle of the 1st c. CE, the tamgas of influential groups of Western Ukraine and the Lower Don and the barbarians of the Crimea predominate, since the middle of the 2nd c. CE the signs of the Lower Don are the most frequent. It the center there are two important signs of the 2nd c. CE (Khorezmian king Artaw and co-ruler of the Bosporan Eupator), the analogies to the signs of Kangju and Khorezm. On the slab from Tanais of 236 CE there are 5 signs of local Sarmatians. On the slab from Tanais of 192 CE a large tamga of a local clan is important, it connected with the elite of Xiongnu later with Sogdia and Chach of the period of Hunnic rule.","PeriodicalId":435723,"journal":{"name":"Stratum plus. Archaeology and Cultural Anthropology","volume":"35 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133631629","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"On the Attribution of the Stater of King Mithridates, Found in 2013 during the Excavation of Artesian Fort","authors":"S. Yatsenko, M. Choref","doi":"10.55086/sp226137147","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.55086/sp226137147","url":null,"abstract":"The unique stater 46/47 CE on both sides has imprinted busts of men turned to the right: on the obverse — a beardless man in a laurel wreath, framed by the legend “ΒΑCΙΛΕΩC ΜΙΘΡΙΔΑΤΟΥ”, and on the reverse — a bearded man without a headdress, deliberately barbaric in appearance. In front of the latter there is a sign known both in Central Asia (Khwarazm, where it was found on coins, Kangju and nomadic territories of South and West Kazakhstan), and among the Sarmatians of Eastern Europe. Probably, the studied coin was minted on behalf of the king Mithridates III. It has two portraits: on the obverse — Emperor Claudius, on the reverse — the aforementioned Bosporan sovereign. Such a tamga (its different placement in space was allowed) was previously presented in Europe on a slab from the Artesian fortress in the same row with the Aspurgos sign. It is located in the center of the “Kerch written slab” with almost 500 signs. After the middle of the 1 st c. CE, such a sign on a horse stamp is presented in the Lower Don necropolis of Kirsanovskii III in the Middle Sarmatian burial of an aristocrat. Apparently, this is the last representative of this clan, so the stamp (the rarest case) was buried with him. Probably, the tamga on the coin represents the sign of a clan that belonged to a very influential aristocracy of Central Asian origin, which turned out to be by the beginning of the 1 st c. CE on the territory of the Kuban Siraces, and after the strengthening of the Alans migrated to the mouth of the Don.","PeriodicalId":435723,"journal":{"name":"Stratum plus. Archaeology and Cultural Anthropology","volume":"11 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128513271","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Funerary Rite as an Element of the Spiritual Culture of the Population of the Northern Part of Bukovina in the 10th—13th Centuries","authors":"I. Vozny","doi":"10.55086/sp226351371","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.55086/sp226351371","url":null,"abstract":"The article discusses one of the components of the spiritual culture of the ancient Rus population of the northern part of Bukovina, namely the funerary rite, since it is the most stable and hereditary features in the development of culture can be traced through it. The local population at the end of the 10th century adhered to the rite of corpse-burning on soil burial grounds. As a result of the processes of the formation of the old Rus state and the annexation of the territory under study, a new type of inhumation burials appears here on the ancient surface under mounds. Such necropolises testify to the presence of Kiev-Rus warriors and members of their families in the study area. With the formation of the powerful Old Rus state, the process of Christianization acquired a wide scope. All investigated burials in the territory of the northern part of Bukovina were Christian. Structurally, the graves of the studied area are divided into five types: simple (without coffins), complex (with coffins), under-slab, in sarcophagus and in charnel houses. On the territory of the northern part of Bukovina, several burial grounds were also found belonging to the Pechenegs, Cumans, and Yatvingian burials, reflecting the military-political or trade processes that took place in the studied territories during the 10th—14th centuries. An analysis of the funerary sites in the studied area shows that the evolution of the funerary rite practiced by the local population followed all-Rus trend and was typical for the entire Old Rus state.","PeriodicalId":435723,"journal":{"name":"Stratum plus. Archaeology and Cultural Anthropology","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124564636","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Coins as a Chronological Indicator of the Ladoga Kurgan Culture","authors":"S. Kochkurkina","doi":"10.55086/sp226161167","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.55086/sp226161167","url":null,"abstract":"The area of the Kurgan culture at the turn of the 1 st —2 nd millennia included the South-Eastern Ladoga area with the basins of the Syas, Tikhvinka, Voronezhka, Pasha, Kapsha, Oyat, Svir rivers; the region of the Onega Lake with the system of rivers Olonka, Tuloksa, Vidlitsa, and the northern coast of Lake Onega. Several generations of archaeologists have investigated more than 700 mounds; English, German, Czech, Byzantine, and Oriental coins, as well as unspecified Western European products and their fragments were found in 91 of them. Coins with riveted ears were used together with beads as neck decorations, coins with holes could be sewn on clothes. Weights, scales accompanied by swords, spears, battle axes were found in male burials, which indicates the high status of the buried ones and the attributes of a merchant-warrior profession. In most cases, coins are a reliable temporary indicator of burial, but first of all, the archaeological method of dating by leading categories of items should be used.","PeriodicalId":435723,"journal":{"name":"Stratum plus. Archaeology and Cultural Anthropology","volume":"31 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"117005891","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Nerworks of Actors and Control over Information: How Russian Orthodox Church Interacts","authors":"Irina Dusacova, Egor Vladimirov","doi":"10.55086/sp226427438","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.55086/sp226427438","url":null,"abstract":"Based on theory of mediatization, the article examines publications about the Russian Orthodox Church in the secular Russian media and in the accounts of users from Russia in 2017—2022. The approach proposed by the authors is focused on media texts not as on the content, but rather as traces of the interaction of actors in the digital space. This approach allows the authors to answer two main research question in the article. The first question considers the network of actors that become visible and that are involved in the interactions on issues related to the Russian Orthodox Church. The second question considers the mechanisms of control over information in the secular media, both through influence on the agenda and through the broadcast of evaluation of topical events.","PeriodicalId":435723,"journal":{"name":"Stratum plus. Archaeology and Cultural Anthropology","volume":"16 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125351249","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Siberian Customs and Rituals in Archaeology: “Mouse, take my baby tooth and give me a new one — durable”","authors":"S. Tataurov, L. Tataurova","doi":"10.55086/sp226401413","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.55086/sp226401413","url":null,"abstract":"Despite the orthodox faith the Russian population of Siberia preserved and actively used pre-Christian customs and beliefs brought from Rus’ in the traditional household ritual culture. Archaeological observations allow us to show attitudinal plots of spiritual culture that are not related to Christian practices. For the first time, the authors offer for the scientific discussion archaeological evidence of syncretism of the national worldview in a broad context, based on the study of urban and rural culture of the 17 th—18 th centuries. They examine images-amulets on women’s and men’s rings, symbols-amulets on objects, in dwellings, ceremonial dishes, the funerary rite of children, the belief in the replacement of baby teeth, customs in relation to domestic guardian spirits – domovoy and bannik. This complements and enhances the existing ethnographic knowledge.","PeriodicalId":435723,"journal":{"name":"Stratum plus. Archaeology and Cultural Anthropology","volume":"205 ","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133391090","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Copper Coins from Taulara of Mithridates VI Eupator Times from the Northern Black Sea Region and Eastern European Steppe and Forrest-Steppe","authors":"V. Orlyk","doi":"10.55086/sp226149159","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.55086/sp226149159","url":null,"abstract":"In the Pontic state of Mithridates VI Eupator’s times, copper coins were minted in the cities, settlements, and fortresses. The royal fortress called Talaura, that is located on the border with Armenia Minor, was one of the centers of these emissions. The article analyses 5 types of Taulara coins which are known, the assumption about the possible period of their minting is argued. Based on the analysis of die, an assumption is made concerning the more centralized Pontic coinage in the period under study and perspective directions are identified for further studies of Pontic state’s numismatics of Mithridates VI Eupator’s period. Special attention is paid to the study of Taulara coins on the Nothern Black Sea Region and Eastern European Steppe and Forrest-Steppe areas.","PeriodicalId":435723,"journal":{"name":"Stratum plus. Archaeology and Cultural Anthropology","volume":"43 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132199633","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"V. Ya. Grosul as the Organizer and leader of studies in history of Transnistria","authors":"Vyacheslav Sodol","doi":"10.55086/sp2264152","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.55086/sp2264152","url":null,"abstract":"Professor V. Ya. Grosul is a well–known scientist. One of the main directions of his research was the study of the history of Bessarabia and Transnistria. He was the creator of the scientific concept of the historical path of Transnistria and the head of the creative team of the collective monograph “History of the PridnestrovianMoldavianRepublic”. He made a great contribution to the development of a number of issues in the history of Pridnestrovye / Transnistria of the 18 th —19 th centuries. V. Ya. Grossul supervised the postgraduate course for the historians at the Shevchenko State University. V. Ya. Grossul brought an important contribution to the historical science of Pridnestrovye / Transnistria.","PeriodicalId":435723,"journal":{"name":"Stratum plus. Archaeology and Cultural Anthropology","volume":"22 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115477123","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Coins from the Excavations of the Late Medieval Vyborg","authors":"K. Gorlov, S. Belskiy","doi":"10.55086/sp226217238","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.55086/sp226217238","url":null,"abstract":"In 2019, the Leningrad Regional Archaeological Expedition of the “Current Archeology” ResearchCenter carried out excavations in Vyborg (Storozhevaya Bashnya Street, 21). During the excavations, 76 coins were registered, issued by the Kingdom of Sweden (24), the Russian Empire and the Grand Duchy of Finland (47), the German Empire (1) and the USSR (1). Three coins made of copper alloy remained unidentified due to poor preservation. The distribution of coins found in 2019 by stratigraphic horizons and objects made it possible to clarify the time of their formation. When using coins as a chronological indicator, the duration of their possible presence in circulation was taken into account, as revealed by the materials of archaeological finds and written sources. To date, only one work has been published in the form of theses, dedicated to numismatic finds obtained during the archaeological study of Vyborg.","PeriodicalId":435723,"journal":{"name":"Stratum plus. Archaeology and Cultural Anthropology","volume":"56 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129724245","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Hoards and Hoard Hunting as a Sociocultural Phenomenon in the Life of the Cossacks in the 18th—19th Centuries","authors":"Vladimir Milchev, Dmitry V. Sen’","doi":"10.55086/sp226239258","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.55086/sp226239258","url":null,"abstract":"The article examines the evolution of the Cossacks’ ideas about hoards in the territories of their traditional residence — Zaporozhye, Don, Kuban. The history of hoards is inscribed in the space of traditional activities of the Cossack communities, accompanied by the accumulation of material values, including money. The authors reveal the forms and degree of participation of the Don and Black Sea (Kuban) Cossacks in unauthorized (predatory) excavations of numerous antiquities of the south of the Russian Empire of the 19 th— early 20 th centuries, including hoard hunting, and identified the factors that determined the transformation of the cultural memory of the Cossacks about the hoards in the specified period.","PeriodicalId":435723,"journal":{"name":"Stratum plus. Archaeology and Cultural Anthropology","volume":"98 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122884910","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}