Algunas reflexiones sobre un hacha de jadeíta de procedencia alpina depositada en la Real Academia Galega (A Coruña, Galicia) by Carlos Rodríguez Rellán, Ramón Fábregas Valcarce, Arturo De Lombera Hermida, Oscar Lantes Suárez

“…Finally, comparing the chronology of the Durrington “goutte d’eau” axes in other European regions and the chronological dates available for the Galician burial mounds, we suggest an arrival of this artefact in the Iberian northwest sometime in the second half of the 5th millennium BC or, more likely, in the early 4th millennium BC.…”
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Reconstructing the Gerdrup Grave – by Ole Kastholm, Ashot Margaryan

“…However, hitherto unpublished excavation data combined with new 14C analyzes show that the burial was part of a small multi-period burial site placed near a group of older burial mounds. Topographic analyses indicate that the burial was also located at a central ford, and thus had a prominent location. …”
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Landscape-scale connectivity and fragment size determine species composition of grassland fragments by Róbert Gallé, Dávid Korányi, Csaba Tölgyesi, Tamás Lakatos, Fabio Marcolin, Edina Török, Kitti Révész, Ágota Réka Szabó, Attila Torma, Nikolett Gallé-Szpisjak, Riho Marja, Katalin Szitár, Balázs Deák, Péter Batáry

“…Kurgans are ancient burial mounds with moderately disturbed grasslands surrounded by agricultural fields. …”
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A Geographical Dataset Describing the Complexity of the Gor River Megalithic Landscape by Carolina Cabrero González, Juan Antonio Cámara, Francisco Javier Esquivel, Liliana Spanedda, Antonio Garrido Almonacid

“…The geographical databases here presented are two: on the one hand, the database made up of up to 70 quantitative and qualitative variables that has been used to carry out the bulk of the doctoral study on the 151 referred dolmens and, on the other hand, the database made up of a total of 230 points identified through the review of DTMs based on LiDAR data and which could correspond totally or partially to burial mounds that have practically disappeared or are poorly preserved on the surface.…”
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The Golden Plate with the Picture of the Horned Animal from the Northern Altai: the Traditions of Animal Style and the Artistic Experiment by Golovchenko Nikolay N., Demin Mikhail A.

“…The golden plate with the picture of the horned animal was found in the near-bottom part of one of the robbed Pazyryk burial mounds. In this article there is a try to define the place of a two-humped “camel” with horns in the system of the figurative plot of Scythian Siberian animal style. …”
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The Mausoleum of Bendebike: High-Status Funeral Monument from the Territory of the Shiban Ulus: study history and context by Evgeny V. Ruslanov

“…On the basis of archaeological data and the spatial distribution of archaeological monuments in the mausoleum area (barrows, burial mounds, ancient villages), it is concluded that the mausoleum was built in an area, which probably served as a meridional route for the seasonal movements of the nomads of the Shiban ulus, from nomadic sites along the right bank of the Ural river to the southern bend of the Belaya river along a narrow steppe corridor east of the Malyi Nakas ridge.…”
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ASSESSMENT OF GOLD MELT INFLUENCE ON THE PLATINOID MICROINCLUSIONS IN ANCIENT GOLD PRODUCTS: A COMPARISON WITH EXPERIMENTAL DATA by V.V. Zaykov, I.A. Blinov, A.M. Yuminov, D.M. Galimov, D.A. Zherebtsov, E.V. Zaykova, M.N. Ankushev, V.M. Ryzhkov, M.A. Rassomakhin, I.A. Yusupov

“…The results of gold melt influence on platinoid microinclusions in ancient gold products from the burial mounds of the Urals and Phanagoria are compared with the experimental data. …”
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Musings about image cart on the pot from the burial ground about village Spassky by Dokuchaeva Stefaniya V.

“…In the burial ground about village Spassky during the excavations of the first group of burial mounds in 1961 in the construction zone of the Verhneural`skoe reservoir (upper course of the Ural River, Chelyabinsk region) a pot with the image cart was discovered. …”
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Hidden Fossils of The Hondsrug Complex Connect Time and Space by Margaretha Roelfs, Harry Huisman

“…The area shows a strong cultural history, in which neanderthals encamped about 50,000 years ago, reindeer hunters roamed, and the area is famous for dozens of dolmens, burial mounds and prehistoric Celtic fields. The land ice left behind thick layers of till, scattered with billions of erratic boulders that often contain fossils. …”
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Textiles from Scythian burial complexes by Elena Fialko, Yurii Boltryk

“…In Northern Black Sea steppes were excavated more than three thousand Scythian burial mounds. In the studied burials were discovered large quantities of artifacts, but leather and textile items are preserved only in a few cases. …”
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Ferd og frakt over fjell og vidde by Kjetil Loftsgarden

“…The historical significance of these communication routes are indicated by large burial sites, some consisting of hundreds of burial mounds, at the foot of several mountain crossings. …”
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Pottery complex of the Alakul Culture from kurgans 1 and 14 of the Alakul cemetery: results of technical and technological analysis by Ilyushina V.V.

“…The traditional methods of making vessels that existed among potters of the analysed population have been determined, the heterogeneity of potters' views on the initial plastic raw materials has been detected, as well as some differences in the manufacture of vessels from different burial mounds at the stages of compiling moulding compounds and design. …”
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Re-evaluating ‘Denmark’s Stonehenge’ by Lone Claudi-Hansen, Arne Anderson Stamnes

“…The site thereby serves as an example that links prominent hilltops surrounded by burial mounds, with the event of establishing fire pits in clusters. …”
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Golden Swords of the Early Nomads of Eurasia: A New Classification and Chronology by Denis Topal

“…This period is a veritable “golden autumn” of Scythia with its huge royal burial mounds and abundance of gold, perfectly illustrating our argument that conspicuous consumption coincides with periods of political and social instability. …”
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The Ar-Hötöl surface rupture along the Khovd fault (Mongolian Altay) by Battogtokh Davaasambuu, Matthieu Ferry, Jean-Francois Ritz, Ulziibat Munkhuu

“…The smaller offsets document the deformation associated with the last surface-rupturing earthquake that affects several Bronze to Iron Age burial mounds. Their analysis yields a robust segmentation model comprising 6 segments of 20 to 51 km in length, a maximum co-seismic slip value of 4.8 m ± 0.5 m located near the center of the rupture. …”
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On the Allocation of Social Strata and Military Elite in the Early Sarmatian Society of the Lower Volga Region in the 4th – 3rd cc. BC by Vladimir I. Moiseev, Valentina Yu. Chistobaeva

“…To examine the social structure of the Early Sarmatian society and to allocate the military nomadic elite, the materials of 143 funerals from burial mounds of the Lower Volga region have been analyzed. …”
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Children and Young Adults from the Early Sarmatian Burials of the Lower Volga Region (Paleopathological Perspective) by Evgeniy V. Pererva, Valentina Yu. Chistobaeva

“…This paper presents the results of a study of bone remains of impuberal individuals from the Early Sarmatian burial mounds located in the Lower Volga region. When working with bone remains, we analyzed frequency of occurrence of various stress indicators and other abnormalities, taking into account biological age of the individuals buried there. …”
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On the Paleopathological Features of the Sarmatian Population of the Lower Volga and the Lower Don Regions in the 4th - 1st Centuries B.C. by Pererva Evgeniy Vladimirovich

“…The bone remains which are the material to this research originate from tombs beneath burials mounds from the area of the Lower Volga and the Lower Don regions. …”
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The Saka ‘Animal Style’ in Context: Material, Technology, Form and Use by Saltanat Amir, Rebecca C. Roberts

“…Recent excavations of burial mounds (kurgans) in the East Kazakhstan region have provided invaluable data on the depositional contexts of such objects. …”
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Toponymic Dictionary of Kalmykia. Review of the book: Gedeeva, D. B., Ubushieva, B. E., Lidzhieva, L. A., & Barinova, B. V. (Eds.). (2019). Slovar’ toponimov Respubliki Kalmykiia [... by Tamara G. Basangova

“…In this vein, apart from discussing the “formal” features of the dictionary, the review analyzes the culturally significant layers of Kalmyk toponyms presented there (names of steppe burial mounds, water bodies, sacred places, etc.). Considering the prospects of making a new, even more complete version of the dictionary, the reviewer gives her recommendations on advancing the etymological research and the improvement of the reference part of this edition.…”
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