Funeral-memorial complex early medieval nomads of the Eastern Azov (on materials of excavations of burial grounds Lebedi IV and Lebedi VIII in 1980) Cover Image

Погребально-поминальные комплексы раннесредневековых кочевников из Восточного Приазовья (по материалам раскопок могильников Лебеди IV и Лебеди VIII в 1980 г.)
Funeral-memorial complex early medieval nomads of the Eastern Azov (on materials of excavations of burial grounds Lebedi IV and Lebedi VIII in 1980)

Author(s): V.A Skarbovenko, N.A. Lifanov
Subject(s): Archaeology, Cultural history, Ethnohistory, 6th to 12th Centuries
Published by: Нижневартовский государственный университет
Keywords: Post-Hunnic era; Khazar Khanate; nomads; funeral-memorial rites; grave goods

Summary/Abstract: In this article the archeologic materials of early Middle Ages nomads from mound burial cemetries Lebedy IV and Lebedy VIII (the territory of Krasnodar area) are presented. Among them the funeral complexes of post-Hunnic (second half VI century) and early-Khazar (the middle – second half VII century) periods are revealed.