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Eleven examples of a special type of jewellery – flat, double spiral, bronze wire earrings have been recorded in monuments dated to the late Hunno-Sarmatian period. This paper analyses the main characteristics of the jewellery in question and their area of distribution. It also focuses on a likely source of origin within the culture of the Altai people. We note that neither prototypes nor analogues have been found at Altai sites dated to the Early Iron Age and Middle Ages. Nor have analogues been found in adjace...

This article deals with problems of the ancient settlement of Northern Yakutia. Across the Arctic of Yakutia, in the basin of river UГ©lГ©, Anabar, Olenek, lower Lena, Indigirka, Kolyma and Islands of the Arctic Ocean discovered and excavated hundreds of monuments of stone and early metal ages in ancient times, the main migratory paths were rivers flowing into the Arctic Ocean, which originate from Central Yakutia. Currently in the Arctic Yakutia there are about 20 sites of mammoth hunters, especially in the basin...

This work will describe, summarize and present the up to day results of the excavation from a cave site, LionВ’s cave on Hymettus Mountain in Attica. The excavations are a joint project of the University of Athens and the Eforate of Speleology and Paleoanthropology. It is is an interdisciplinary research project organized and directed by the author of this article and a number of specialists in archaeological and palaeoenvironmental disciplines are participating. A considerable number of students from the National...

The Lena-Amga interfluve of Central Yakutia is characterized by taiga-alas landscape. A feature of this area is a plain covered mainly larch taiga, the uniformity of which the thermokarst basins of alases violate. Alas represent a rounded or elongated hollow formed by years of soil defrosts, the bottom of which is covered by extremely nutritious for cattle meadow grass. The vegetation of alas represents meadow and praire system. For now days, Alas are the most important places for agriculture. A large number of ol...

The sacred places are signs and markers in the perception of the physical, symbolic and cultural space: therefore we have to study local contexts through the analysis of all the available sources, including the spatial distribution of the holy places and the spatial relationships existing between the various evidences of archaeological contexts, according to the perspective of global history of the "Landscape Archaeology". The research on sacred places proves to be a privileged means of investigating the social an...

The landscape has a great cultural and historical importance because it represents the archive of history and the identity of a territory and also of the people, who over the centuries, have inhabited and transformed it. It is the network in which all the issues of cultural heritage are included, each linked to the other: this interaction and stratification should be absolutely considered and emphasized in every action of research, knowledge, conservation and valorisation. Currently the deep change that the concep...

Arad County is located in the western part of Romania, within the DKMT cross-border area. The National Archaeological Record of Romania lists 246 historic sites in this area, most of which are found in villages. Only few of these monuments are valorized as landmarks. Rural monuments are not advertised and have no proper monument protection. Local communities do not have the means, the awareness or the genuine interest to preserve them. Thus, initiatives for rehabilitation, reuse and valorization of some of these m...

The author discovered an area of unravaged burial complexes on the territory of the Lower Katun mountainous valley regarded a part of the trans-cultural region where large multicultural necropoles were formed. The burial mound group of Chulkov Log-1 is one of them. The monument is located along the Chuya Highway, 1.5 km away to the north-west from the town of Manzherok, Mayminsky District, near the mountainous slope of the Iolgo ridge branches. The burial mound group includes 123 burial mounds with stone structure...

In Late Antiquity, Sicily became a privileged place of religious changes in the Ancient Mediterranean: the south eastern part of the island is the last frontier of the Byzantine Empire, place of last resistance to Islamic domination. The dimension of the sacred is reflected in a specific socio-political organization of the space and is often configured as a “landscape of power”: in this way, some examples of cave churches in the middle of the Island dedicated to the cult of saints, can be explained, many of wh...

Through employing a comparative perspective, major components of the intellectual contribution of Barrington Moore and Max Weber are presented; both of them made a unique contribution to the explanation of the formation of modern nations under capitalist conditions resulting from the interdependence of culture, industrialization and the transformation of social structures. First, Moore's and Weber's reasoning about the emergence of modern capitalism is clarified; while Moore ascribes crucial importance to social d...

The paper presents results of archaeological excavations lasting 11 seasons, in years 1981-1986 and 2000-2004 by Archaeology Institute of Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toru? (Poland). In Strzelno - a tiny town in Kuyavia region (North Poland) - the Premonstratensian nunnery had been functioning from the end of 12th c. to the 19th c. This is the site of a small Romanesque St. Procopius rotunda and Holy Trinity convent basilica with 4 famous Romanesque columns. The main purpose of the research was to determine t...