ARCHAEOLOGICAL EXPEDITIONS IN MONGOLIA
ARCHAEOLOGICAL EXPEDITIONS IN MONGOLIA

Author(s): István Erdélyi
Subject(s): History, Archaeology, Cultural history, Ancient World
Published by: Mundus Novus Kft.
Keywords: Mongolia; Steppe; archaeologica
Summary/Abstract: The volume presents the results of the excavations of the joint Mongolian-Hungarian expeditions: among others the relics of the Late Bronze Age - Early Iron Age, the stag steles and the tombs of the Asian Hun (Hiung-nu) people from the 1st-2nd centuries A.D. Besides the scientific description of the finds, it also gives the details of their historical-archaeological background, on the basis of the data in the earlier literature, including foreign parallels. He also reflects on the theory of the Turcs in a distant connection with the Khazar and Avar archaeological relics. In Appendix: New data on the palaeoanthropology of northern Mongolia by Tibor TÓTH; The palaeosomatology of the Naima-Tolgoy population by Ildikó PAP; A pathological study of the skeletal material from Naima-Tolgoy by Antónia MARCSIK.

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