Kurgan Tunnug 1—New Data on the Earliest Horizon of Scythian Material Culture
Questions surrounding the emergence of highly mobile nomadic pastoralism and the origins of the associated Scythian material culture have a long history in Eurasian steppe archaeology, but advances in knowledge have been hindered by a lack of data. Here we present new findings on the Early Iron Age...
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ftdatacite:10.7892/boris.146779 2023-05-15T18:30:48+02:00 Kurgan Tunnug 1—New Data on the Earliest Horizon of Scythian Material Culture Sadykov, Timur Caspari, Gino Blochin, Jegor 2020 application/pdf https://dx.doi.org/10.7892/boris.146779 https://boris.unibe.ch/146779/ en eng Routledge, Taylor and Francis Group info:eu-repo/semantics/restrictedAccess 720 Architecture 930 History of ancient world to ca. 499 Text article-journal ScholarlyArticle 2020 ftdatacite https://doi.org/10.7892/boris.146779 2021-11-05T12:55:41Z Questions surrounding the emergence of highly mobile nomadic pastoralism and the origins of the associated Scythian material culture have a long history in Eurasian steppe archaeology, but advances in knowledge have been hindered by a lack of data. Here we present new findings on the Early Iron Age royal burial mound Tunnug 1 in Tuva. While the site belongs to the same cultural tradition as Arzhan 1, the conceptual roots of the funerary ritual architecture can be traced to precursors in the Mongun Taiga culture and the Mongolian deer stone khirigsuur complex. The clay architecture uncovered at Tunnug 1 does not find any regional comparisons and possibly hints towards a western Central Asian contribution to the formation of the earliest Scythian horizon. Our research demonstrates the value of a multi-disciplinary approach to documenting monumental earthen architecture, including technical approaches (satellite imagery, aerial photographs, 3D models, digital elevation models, geophysics, and radiocarbon dating) with an analysis of construction material and associated finds. Text taiga DataCite Metadata Store (German National Library of Science and Technology) Tuva ENVELOPE(12.506,12.506,65.215,65.215) |
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Questions surrounding the emergence of highly mobile nomadic pastoralism and the origins of the associated Scythian material culture have a long history in Eurasian steppe archaeology, but advances in knowledge have been hindered by a lack of data. Here we present new findings on the Early Iron Age royal burial mound Tunnug 1 in Tuva. While the site belongs to the same cultural tradition as Arzhan 1, the conceptual roots of the funerary ritual architecture can be traced to precursors in the Mongun Taiga culture and the Mongolian deer stone khirigsuur complex. The clay architecture uncovered at Tunnug 1 does not find any regional comparisons and possibly hints towards a western Central Asian contribution to the formation of the earliest Scythian horizon. Our research demonstrates the value of a multi-disciplinary approach to documenting monumental earthen architecture, including technical approaches (satellite imagery, aerial photographs, 3D models, digital elevation models, geophysics, and radiocarbon dating) with an analysis of construction material and associated finds. |
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