CARTOGRAPHIC AND RELIEF ANALYSIS OF THE LOCATION OF THE MOUNDS OF THE LOWER DON
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https://doi.org/10.14258/tpai(2021)33(2).-01Keywords:
the Lower Don, burial mound, topography, relief, steppeAbstract
The regularities of the location of steppe mounds are currently poorly understood. The study is based on the inventory of the objects of the archaeological heritage of the Rostov region in the 1990s and 2008–2020. The presented developments were verified and refined by the excavations of several identified burial mounds. The paper presents the typology of the topographical position of burial mounds: floodplain, terraced, terraced-cape, slope, watershed. Five levels of analysis of the position of the mounds are proposed. The basic techniques of mound constructing are described, and the findings of the components of tools for digging the soil are presented. Three stages of the development of the burial mound are identified. Characteristics are given to natural, biogenic and anthropogenic forms of relief, which need to be distinguished from mounds. All this data is proposed to be used to search for mounds. To identify the mounds in the area, the key features of burial mounds are described. The hypothesis of the relationship between the type of topographical position and the right to use the territory is substantiated.
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CARTOGRAPHIC AND RELIEF ANALYSIS OF THE LOCATION OF THE MOUNDS OF THE LOWER DON. (2021). THEORY AND PRACTICE OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL RESEARCH, 33(2), 7-30. https://doi.org/10.14258/tpai(2021)33(2).-01
