THE 14TH CENTURY SANITARY BURIAL IN BOLGAR (PRELIMINARY RESULTS)
Keywords:
palaeoanthropology, craniology, osteology, dental anthropology, discrete-varying traits, sanitary burial, Bolgar, the Middle Volga regionAbstract
The paper presents the results of a comprehensive paleoanthropological studies of human remains f in the construction # 6 (a kiln) found during archaeological investigations at the western part of the Bolgar Hillfort (excavation unit CCXVI) in 2016. In general, the remains were disorganized and mixed. As result of a detailed analysis of the morphological features of their fragments, including sex and age features, it became possible to determine that the remains were belonging to seven individuals, including three men, two women and two children.The specifi c of the burial as well as the composition of bones, their anatomic incompleteness as well as the particularities of destruction, including the traces of mortal injuries allowed to suppose that all individuals were murdered in extremely violent ways. There is no doubt that it was no only the result of an armed confl ict, but also a consequence of some execution (or capital punishment?). It is possible that the human remains were placed into the kiln, when they had been already most of the flesh was decomposed, in the result of a sanitary cleaning of the medieval city of Bolgar from the bodies of killed after a social confl ict of the inhabitants.
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