Re: The "Golden Cemetery" of the kuban r.

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, george knysh <gknysh@...> wrote:

>
> Here's something more recent than Shchukin or Veselovskyi:
>
> http://kronk.narod.ru/library/guschina-zasetskaya-1994.htm
>
> Judging by the contents account (and that's all we have here) the
> burials were of the "catacomb" type. That settles it: this was the
> primary Alanic custom. So these are Alanic graves. Not "barbarized
> Romans" (Veselovskyi) nor "Romanized barbarians" of uncertain
> Sarmatian ethnicity (Shchukin). Yatsenko peripherally speaks of the
> "kurgans" and gakks of this cemetery (in your "tamga feast"
> posting).
> The Roman influence is probably explainable by the political
> contacts of the Bosporan kingdom. Which was actively "sarmatized"
> from the 1rst c. CE. These Sarmats were Alans (this we know from
> many sources).

http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/cybalist/message/64695
'In spite of that it was already early pointed out, that the grave of
Mus^ov also displays certain related features to the environment of
the Imperial period graves of the Lübsow/Lubieszow group, especially
with those of phase B2. These are reflected in the construction of
the grave chamber with stone facing/covering,...'

What defines 'catacomb' in the Sarmatian setting?


Torsten