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x99lynx@... wrote:
> 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.
>
> Steve
*****GK: The abstract of Kovaleva's paper at a 2001
Esslingen(?) conference, written in ghastly English,
doesn't directly suggest that the Tomashivka Late
Trypilia group on the southern Boh (Bog)practiced
inhumation as a preponderant burial rite.
Unfortunately all we have is this abstract. My
information from the ARKHEOLOGIA UKRAINSKOJI RSR
mentions this group but does not describe its funerary
customs. It does note that on general cultural grounds
Tomashivka resembles Kasperivtsi (Kovaleva also notes
this) Horodsk and Sofiivka. What I find curious is
Kovaleva's contention that the Lower Mykhajlivka
"flexed" inhumations represent an "agricultural"
position. As I reported earlier the Middle Trypilia on
the Dnipro (ca.4500-3500 BC) was characterized by the
presence of both cremation and inhumation burials.
There is no doubt as to the "agricultural" orientation
of Middle Trypilia. And yet among its inhumation
burials one finds BOTH "flexed" and "extended"
positions...==== BTW there are other interesting
abstracts alongside that of Kovaleva. There is a paper
by David Anthony which propounds an "elite dominance"
theory to explain the spread of IE among steppe
populations east of the Volga. And there is an
interesting paper by Michail Turetskyi of Samara which
tells us that the latest calibrated radiocarbon dates
for the "developed" Yamna culture on the Middle Volga
point to the period 3250-2750 BC. Thus "Early Yamna"
would begin ca. 3500 BC.****
>
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