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x99lynx@... wrote:
>
> The author cites BINFORD L.R. (1972), " Mortuary
> practices : their study and
> their potential " in An Archaeological Perspective,
> Seminar Press, New York,
> p. 208-243; and
> BITTEL K. (1958), Die Hethitischen Grabfunde vom
> Osmankayasi, WVDOG 71 (and
> bibliography) for the proposition that cremation was
> never the common method
> of burial in Cucuteni-Tripolye.
>
> If you have better information from anywhere, please
> bring us up to date.
*****GK: My information updates are derived from
Ukrainian archaeological journals, which pretty
routinely contain items on Trypilia. The basic (and
still fundamental) source however would be ARKHEOLOGIA
UKRAINSKOI RSR, vol.1, Kyiv: Naukova Dumka 1971,
pp.149-209 (this is in Ukrainian, but perhaps we could
describe it as one of the current satemized
southeastern dialects of PIE (:=)). For those
unfamiliar with this dialect, let me summarize in the
more widely used northwestern PIE:
1. Larger cemeteries of Early Trypilia have not yet
been found. Sporadic indicators suggest the presence
of both cremation and inhumation as burial rites.
2. The known cemeteries of Middle Trypilia are also
few. Both rites are attested, but cremation is
preponderant.
3. We are luckier with Late Trypilia (3500-2750 BC).
Its various subgroups practised the following burial
rites:
(a) The Koshelivtsi-Kasperivtsi groups (upper Dnister)
practiced cremation.
(b) The Vykhvatynsk-Usatovo groups (middle and lower
Dnister) practiced inhumation. These groups had a very
special relationship with the steppe populations
preceding Yamna.
(c) The Lukashevka-Sofiivka groups (middle Dnipro)
practiced cremation.
(d) The cemeteries of the Horodsk groups (Volynia)
have yet to be discovered. It is however pretty
certain that they precticed cremation since some of
them were assimilated by the later Globular Amphorae
culture and maintained the ritual in that context.
I am unfamiliar with the burial rites of the Cucuteni
(Romanian) portion of the culture. Perhaps someone
might fill us in on this.*****
>(Steve) BTW there's also something recent about late
> Tripolye inhumation practices
> showing up in the graves of the "Lower Mikhailovka"
> group, by a Irina
> F.Kovaleva, on the web.
*****GK: I'll try to find this and get back to
you.****
>
> Steve
>
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