From: tgpedersen
Message: 64363
Date: 2009-07-09
>Doligocephality?
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> --- On Thu, 7/9/09, tgpedersen <tgpedersen@...> wrote:
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> > the presence if inhumation is a prerequisite for
> > Yasig presence
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> GK: Indeed. But that is only one characteristic. Others are:
> the grave shape; the body position and orientation; the funeral
> inventory (specific types of jewellery, ceramics, weapons, <other
> objects e.g. phalerae). A single item is never a sufficient
> identifier for a professional archaeologist, though some are
> clearly more important than others.
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> Of course.
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> But actually that raises an interesting principal question: What
> does one do in the case of a partial match?
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> Torsten
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> ****GK: Depends how partial and as to what. An interesting set of
> results is that for the Chernyakhiv culture: there are a number of
> shared components in the inhumation burials, but also distinct
> characteristics which enabled archaeologists to convincingly
> differentiate Scythian, Alanic, Thracian, and Germanic burials. As
> far as I remember before checking, the key indicators were grave
> shapes, body orientation and some specific smaller objects. The
> unifying factors (the Chernyakhiv ceramics and much "Chernyakhiv"
> jewellery) were ignored.****
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