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The afore-mentioned buried cache is one of the most interesting and informative archaeological and historical sources. It contains the complex of articles intentionally hidden into the ground after the appointed process of its collecting. Investigation of such finds is one of the actual problems in the world and home archaeology. On the territory of South Siberia the buried treasures (or the so-called В«cachesВ») appeared as long ago as the Mesolithic Epoch. However, they contained complexes of various kinds of ar...

Albanian territories in general and Kosovo in particular has a treasure of historical and cultural heritage. This legacy steadily, over centuries is exposed to destructive activities, either by nature or human factor. In postwar Kosovo has inherited a state of serious historical and cultural heritage, as a result of inadequate treatment of its urban and architectural vandalism, destruction, devastation which is made and even today historical cultural heritage. Sensitivity to these values, and consequently put them...

Archaeological study of the Kazan Kremlin in 1990th years gave varied in compositionof glazed ceramics from Kazan State strata. Over a half refers to imported ceramics. Another part consists of fragments of glazed pottery of two types: red clay pottery with blue glaze and pottery with green and brown glaze. Similar dishes were found at other sites of the Volga-Kama region. Comparative analysis of the elemental composition of pottery with Crimea, glaze with Bulgar sepaja and ceramic fragments from the excavations o...

The present article considers issues relating to the woodworking craft of the population of Altai during the Hunno-Sarmatian period. The article focuses particularly on criteria for the choice and nature of application of various types of wood depending on their physical and chemical characteristics. The composition of woodworking tools during this period is examined, and improvements in comparison with the previous period considered. The state of the woodworking craft is described from the point of view of its le...

Archaeological research based on traditional archaeological methods (typology, style and context analysis) provides a wealth of information concerning ware shape, color, decoration and overall fabric. In order to differentiate between such classificatory schemes, archaeologists often resort to an interdisciplinary approach involving the analysis of the mineralogical composition and geochemical fingerprints of the raw materials use in the pottery manufacture. The Cucuteni–Trypillia civilization developed during t...

Different spectroscopic techniques, in combination with suitable statistical methods of multivariate analysis, can be applied in explorations investigation in various fields, including industry, environment, agriculture, medicine and cultural heritage, for example. For well-known reasons, in analyses of cultural heritage artifacts only full or nearly non-destructive experimental methods must be used. In this paper, we have chosen the ancient metal coin, found on the territory of the present Republic of Croatia and...

The problem of historical and cultural objects destruction in the zone of large reservoirs negative impact is now one of the most pressing problems in the preservation of historical heritage on the territory of Russian Federation. Approximately 36% of the reservoir banks of Russia are being actively destroyed, which leads to permanent withdrawal of large areas from the land use of valuable coastal areas. Two major reservoirs, Kuybyshevskoye and Nizhnekamskoye are located on the territory of the Republic of Tatarst...

The target of this research is most significant and impressive elements of the female costume from archaeological monuments dated to the 1st half of the I millennium ADand located in the Volga-Vyatka Interfluve. The article focuses on a specific type of the costume bronze decorations - arc rattle pendants which are of interest to comprehend local non-ferrous metalworking characteristic features, their artistic value and semantic text. The author provides a general description of the decorations and explores inform...

Current paper aim to investigate the dynamic of a regional settlement-system through cartographic documents and data relating to the landscape around the sites (using satellite images, aerial photographs and geophysical measurements) stored in a geographic information system. We can state that the Middle Bronze Age chiefdoms form peer polities controlling different size territories along single or more valleys. Our approach represents the actual stage of research of the subject;

Field studies and materials gathered show that in terms of fortifications, Morava's resource areas, not only did they not stay behind other Albanian and Balkans territories, but they appear with their own special features, and have contributed greatly to the common treasure of European architecture. The purpose of this paper is to provide a systematic presentation of our creativity in centuries, claiming disclosure of a part of our creative values in the common treasure of Illyrian-Dardan heritage consolidation. B...

A lot of spherical cones were found at excavations in Bilyar and Bulgar - capitals of the Volga Bulgaria of 10-14th centuries. The interdisciplinary research of spherical coneswas carried out on 13 fragments from Bilyar and Bulgar settlements. Subjects were analyzed by the following methods: X-ray diffraction (XRD), optical microscopy and petrographic (OMPA), differential thermal-magnetic (DTMA), emission spectral analysis (ESA) and differential thermal analysis (DTA). XRD and OMPA demonstrated the similarity of m...

Present paper analyzes the Middle Bronze Age Otomani culture`s pottery from Carei-Bobald tell settlement (North-western Romania). Our aim is to sketch an accurate picture about a large ceramic material, debate some typological and chronological issues based on statistics, chemical composition and the manufacturing techniques. The topics covered include the reconstruction of the technology used in pottery production, through a combination of optical microscopy (OM), scanning electron microscopy and energy-dispersiv...

In this article, the essential role of ALS data application is presented in example of the Eagles' Nests, which are group of medieval castles - historical fortification systems in Poland. A key issue in this research is to expose the impact of various transformations of elevation models, which allows for a more comprehensive analysis of mentioned historical monuments and their neighborhood including particularly, appropriate visualization methods of digital terrain models (DTM) and digital surface models (DSM). Ap...

Land covered with vegetation, in particular woodland, is poorly recognised but contains a significant number of archaeological features and sites, including a number of objects associated with the production of charcoal in the past, such as charcoal piles or kilns. An example of such objects, analysed in this text, are remains of charcoal piles, which are today visible on the surface in the rudimentary form of grooves and ridges of earth of a few or a dozen centimetres each. Charcoal piles are objects that existed...

We are discussing in this paper monumental tombs, which distinguish from other forms of interment and funerary architecture because of their spatial organization, structure and decoration. In the family tombs had been manifested, in a modest manner, the idea of imperial mausoleums but in accordance with economic situation of the family. Building of tombs – family mausoleums marked the entire Late Roman period and had been equally popular among the pagans as well as among the Christians.