The Eneolithic Burials at the Novoye Biksenteevo Dune, Ik–Belaya Interfluve (following the materials of the archaeological survey in 2023)

Authors

  • Victor V. Morozov LLC "Archaeology of the East European Plain". Prospect Mira, 89–174, Moscow, 129085, Russian Federation
  • Vladimir V. Stavitsky Penza State University. V.G. Belinsky. Krasnaya, str. 40, Penza, 440026, Russian Federation
  • Alexey L. Smirnov Institute of Archaeology of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Dmitriya Ulyanova St., 19, Moscow, 117292, Russian Federation
  • Viktoriya I. Danilevskaya  Institute of Archaeology of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Dmitriya Ulyanova St., 19, Moscow, 117292, Russian Federation
  • Elvira T. Sultanova LLC "Archaeology of the East European Plain". Prospect Mira, 89–174, Moscow, 129085, Russian Federation

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.24852/2587-6112.2025.1.113.120

Keywords:

archaeology, Eastern Trans-Kama region, Neolithic, Eneolithic, Novoye Biksenteevo burial ground, burial, bone and shell pendants

Abstract

The article presents the materials of a new Eneolithic burial ground, discovered by chance in the 2023 field season near the former village of Novoe Biksenteevo (Republic of Tatarstan). Burial 1, represented by an adult male individual, was destroyed by plowing; burial 2, identified in a test pit at the top of a dune, contained a partially preserved child's skeleton with bone and shell pendants. The analysis of sources on specific bone ornaments, biconvex pendants, allowed the authors to determine a narrow chronology of the existence of this type of ornaments. Based on analogies in the Volga-Urals and Western Siberia, the burials of the Novoye Biksenteevo burial ground can be tentatively dated to the second half of the V – first quarter of the IV millennium BC

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2025-02-28

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Morozov , V. V., Stavitsky , V. V., Smirnov , A. L., Danilevskaya , V. I., & Sultanova , E. T. (2025). The Eneolithic Burials at the Novoye Biksenteevo Dune, Ik–Belaya Interfluve (following the materials of the archaeological survey in 2023). Arkheologiia Evraziiskikh Stepei (Archaeology of the Eurasian Steppes), (1), 113–120. https://doi.org/10.24852/2587-6112.2025.1.113.120

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