MAGNETIC SURVEY OF THE PERIPHERAL AREAS OF THE KURGAN TUNNUG-1 IN TUVA

Authors

  • D.E. Edemsky Pushkov Institute of Terrestrial Magnetism, Ionosphere and Radio Wave Propagation, RAS
  • A.V. Popov Pushkov Institute of Terrestrial Magnetism, Ionosphere and Radio Wave Propagation, RAS
  • I.V. Prokopovich Pushkov Institute of Terrestrial Magnetism, Ionosphere and Radio Wave Propagation, RAS
  • T.R. Sadykov Institute for the History of Material Culture, RAS
  • G. Caspari 3Institute for Archaeological Sciences, University of Bern; University of Sydney
  • J.K. Blochin Institute for the History of Material Culture, RAS

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.14258/tpai(2020)1(29).-06

Keywords:

magnetometry, magnetic survey, archaeological interpretation, archeology, Tunnug, early Scythian time

Abstract

The article provides the feasibility for the using of geophysical methods, in particular, the magnetometric probing for examining the complex ritual and funeral architecture of the early Scythian kurgan Tunnug-1 and its periphery (Piy-Khemsky District of the Tuva Republic). The survey results showed that the area near close to the kurgan was used as a place of religious events and ritual burials both in the early Scythian period and by tribes living in the area in later times. As a result of the studies, subsurface local stone structures belonging to the objects of burial architecture, unevenly distributed around the near the mound territory, were discovered. The building material of stone structures has different magnetic susceptibilities, which does not prevent to reliable magnetometry localization of these archaeological objects. Areal geomagnetic surveying has proven to be an effective approach for a detailed examination of the funeral architecture, determination, and contouring of places of the religious and cult practice of the funeral memorial cycle of ancient nomads.

Downloads

Download data is not yet available.

Author Biographies

  • D.E. Edemsky, Pushkov Institute of Terrestrial Magnetism, Ionosphere and Radio Wave Propagation, RAS

    Ph.D., senior researcher at the Institute of Terrestrial Magnetism, Ionosphere and Radio Wave Propagation named after N.V. Pushkova RAS

  • A.V. Popov, Pushkov Institute of Terrestrial Magnetism, Ionosphere and Radio Wave Propagation, RAS

    Doctor of Physics and Mathematics, Chief Researcher at Sushkov Institute of Terrestrial Magnetism, Ionosphere and Radio Wave Propagation, RAS

  • I.V. Prokopovich, Pushkov Institute of Terrestrial Magnetism, Ionosphere and Radio Wave Propagation, RAS

    Researcher at the Pushkov Institute of Terrestrial Magnetism, Ionosphere and Radio Wave Propagation RAS

  • T.R. Sadykov, Institute for the History of Material Culture, RAS

    Junior Researcher, Institute of the History of Material Culture of the Russian Academy of Sciences

  • G. Caspari, 3Institute for Archaeological Sciences, University of Bern; University of Sydney

    PhD, Associate Researcher, Institute of Archaeological Research, University of Bern

  • J.K. Blochin, Institute for the History of Material Culture, RAS

    Junior Researcher, Institute of the History of Material Culture, Russian Academy of Sciences

References

Gass A., Parcinger G., Fassbinder J. Pervye shagi issledovanij periferii bol’shih kurganov rannego zheleznogo veka Severnogo Kavkaza [Preliminary Research on the Peripheries’ of the Great Kurgans of the Early Iron Age in the Northern Caucasus] “Anfimovskie chteniya” po arheologii Zapadnogo Kavkaza. Problemy izucheniya pogrebal’nogo obryada narodov Zapadnogo Kavkaza v drevnosti i srednevekov’e: Materialy mezhdunarodnoj arheologicheskoj konferencii [Anfimov Readings on the Archaeology of the Western Caucasus. Problems of Studying the Funeral Rite of the Peoples of the Western Caucasus in Antiquity and the Middle Ages: Materials of the International Archaeological Conference]. Krasnodar : IP Smorodin, 2016. 278 p.
Gryaznov M.P. Arzhan. Carskij kurgan ranneskifskogo vremeni [Arzhan – Royal Mound of the Early Scythian Time]. L., 1980. 62 p.
Sadykov T.R., Caspari Dg., Blochin E.K. Ranneskifskij kurgan Tunnug-1: rezul’taty pervyh rabot na yuzhnoj periferii pamyatnika [The Early Scythian Burial Mound Tunnug-1: Preliminary Results of the Excavation of the Southern Periphery]. Teoriya i praktika arheologicheskih issledovanij [Theory and Practice of Archaeological Research]. 2019. №1. Pp. 29–38. DOI: 10.14258/tpai(2019)1(25).-03.
Fassbinder J. Magnitometriya v arheologii – ot teorii k praktike [Magnetometry in Archaeology – from Theory to Practice] Rossijskaya arheologiya. 2019. №3. Pp. 75–91. DOI: 10.31857/S086960630005672-8.
Caspari G., Sadykov T., Blochin J., Hajdas I. Tunnug 1 (Arzhan 0) – an Early Scythian Kurgan in Tuva Republic, Russia // Archaeological Research in Asia. 2018. V. 15. P. 82–87. DOI: 10.1016/j.ara.2017.11.001.
Caspari G., Sadykov T., Blochin J., Buess M., Nieberle M., Balz T. Integrating Remote Sensing and Geophysics for Exploring Early Nomadic Funerary Architecture in the “Siberian Valley of the Kings” // Sensors. 2019. V. 19. С. 3074. P. 1–13. DOI: 10.3390/s19143074.

Downloads

Published

2020-03-19

Issue

Vol. 29 No. 1 (2020)

Section

USE OF NATURAL-SCIENTIFIC METHODS IN ARCHAEOLOGICAL RESEARCH

How to Cite

MAGNETIC SURVEY OF THE PERIPHERAL AREAS OF THE KURGAN TUNNUG-1 IN TUVA. (2020). THEORY AND PRACTICE OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL RESEARCH, 29(1), 100-109. https://doi.org/10.14258/tpai(2020)1(29).-06