Przeglądanie według Temat "forest-steppe zone of the middle Dnieper basin"

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Wyznaczniki płci w grobach ludności grup leśnostepowych kultury scytyjskiej
(Muzeum Okręgowe w Rzeszowie, 2016) Burghardt, Marcin
In the present article, based on the analysis of 120 burial complexes discovered in the forest-steppe zone of the middle Dnieper basin and the middle Don basin and dated from the second half of the sixth century to the fourth/ third century BC (for which anthropological determinants of sex were available), a series of 21 items was distinguished with the determinants of male or female sex. In addition, based on a comparative analysis taking into account also the burials with determined sex by the researchers based on the grave goods accompanying the dead (110 burials), it demonstrated the legitimacy of functioning in the literature the views on the sex determinants. Analyzing the co-existence of different types of sex determinants in male and female graves, it was found that the former ones are characterized mainly by the presence of sets of weapons combined with the lack of ornaments or spindle whorls (specific to women), mirrors and other toilet items. Moreover, the male sex of the deceased was also marked by means of the presence of blade and blunt weapon, elements of body armour, parts of the horse tack, whips, bronze cauldrons, clamps and straps, flint flakes in the grave. Whereas, as for the graves of women, despite the presence of items related to sewing (needles and spindle whorls) and toilet (mirrors, stone tiles and pieces of dyes), the occurrence of sets of ornaments or some individual types (earrings occurring in pairs, necklaces with gold elements, rings, pins) is also characteristic in their inventories. These items are found in both the graves with weaponry, where there are at least two-element sets, as well as elsewhere. In the last case, female sex may be testified by the present of one determinant of this sex in the grave.