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Burials with ditches in the Early Avar period
Burials with ditches in the Early Avar period

Author(s): Zsolt Gallina, Bence Gulyás, Gyöngyi Gulyás, Flórián Harangi
Subject(s): Archaeology
Published by: Akadémiai Kiadó
Keywords: Early Avar period; Carpathian Basin; east European steppe; burial rites; ditch-framed burials; barrows;

Summary/Abstract: In this article, we present the ditch-framed graves of Babarc-Mérnökségi telep (Grave SNR 28) and Hajdúböszörmény-Bak-hát-dűlő sites. Together with these, a total of seven such graves from the Early Avar period are known. Although they indicate a connection with the Eastern European steppe communities of the 5th–7th centuries based on their other burial practices, their exact analogies are unknown outside the Avar Kaghanate. The grave goods suggest that these ditch-framed burials probably date from the first half of the Early Avar period.

  • Issue Year: 150/2025
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 335-352
  • Page Count: 18
  • Language: English
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