Female Burials of the Early Nomads in the Southern Ural: Manifestation of Social Roles
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.52967/3007-6528.2023.1.160.165Keywords:
Southern Urals, Early nomads, female burials, social rolesAbstract
The article concerns the reconstruction of the women’s social roles in the societies of the Early nomads in the Southern Urals (the end of the 6th–3rd centuries BC) by analyzing the data of funerary sites. The analysis allows us to conclude that female social roles were quite numerous, and, in addition to the traditional female roles of wife/ concubine, mother and mistress, the burial grounds manifested the roles of female ritual specialists and women who may have taken part in military conflicts. Judging by the distribution of artifacts according to the age of the deceased, group of women who died at the age of 25 to 35 had the most diverse grave goods, this group accounts for the majority of burials with decorations, weapons and mirrors. Probably, the peak of the social activity of women fell at this age, which was reflected in the composition of the grave goods.
References
Berseneva, N. A. 2022. In: Stratum Plus, 3, 159–170 (in Russian).
Bogachenko, T. V. 2017. Istoricheskie osnovy skazaniy o zhenschinah-voitelnitsah yuzhnorusskih stepey (Historical
foundations of stories about women warriors of the southern Russian Steppes). Rostov-on-Don; Taganrog:
Southern Federal University (in Russian).
Gilmitdinova, A. K. 2016. In: Yablonskiy, L. T., Kraeva L. A. (eds.). Konstantin Fedorovich Smirnov i aktualnye problemy sarmatskoy arkheologii (Konstantin Fedorovich Smirnov and current problems of Sarmatian archaeology). Orenburg: Orenburg State Pedagogical University, 66–69 (in Russian).
Tairov, A. D., Botalov, S. G., Pleshanov, M. L. 2008. In: Yablonskiy, L.T. (ed.). Rannie kochevniki Volgo-Uralskogo regiona (Early nomads of the Volga-Ural region). Orenburg: Orenburg State Pedagogical University, 139–145 (in Russian).
Yatsenko, S. A. 2007. In: Narody i religii Evrazii (Nations and Religions of Eurasia), 1, 58–66 (in Russian).
Berseneva, N. 2022. In: Archaeology, Ethnology and Anthropology of Eurasia, 1 (50), 99–105 (in English).
Nelson, S. M. 1997. Gender in Archaeology. Analyzing Power and Prestige. Walnut Creek: AltaMira Press (in English).
Yablonsky, L. T. 2017. In: Krutak, L., Deter-Wolf, A. (eds.). Ancient Ink. The Archaeology of Tattooing. Washington: University of Washington Press, 215–230 (in English).
Yablonsky, L. T., Treister, М. 2019. In: Ancient Civilizations from Scythia to Siberia. Vol. 25. Leiden: Koninklijke Brill NV, 79–161 (in English).
Downloads
Published
Issue
Section
License
Copyright (c) 2023 Наталья Александровна Берсенева (Автор)
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.
