Early Yakut Burials in the Flexed Position as a Historical and Ethnographic Source
[Ranneiakutskie pogrebeniia so skorchennym trupopolozheniem na boku kak istoriko-etnograficheskii istochnik]
Type of publication: Research Article
Submitted: 26.03.2015
Accepted: 25.10.2016
About author(s)
Rozalia Bravina | http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4902-8288 | bravinari@bk.ru | Institute for Humanities Research and Indigenous Studies of the North of the Siberian Branch of RAS (1 Petrovskogo Street, Yakutsk, 677007, Russia)
Viktor Dyakonov | http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4899-6148 | dyakonov_vm@rambler.ru | Institute for Humanities Research and Indigenous Studies of the North of the Siberian Branch of RAS (1 Petrovskogo Street, Yakutsk, 677007, Russia)
Ekaterina Kolbina | http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9265-6693 | kolba72@mail.ru | M.K. Ammosov North-Eastern Federal University (58 Belinsky Street, Yakutsk, 677027, Russia)
Denis Petrov | http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5166-5166 | dmpetrov-92@mail.ru | Institute for Humanities Research and Indigenous Studies of the North of the Siberian Branch of RAS (1 Petrovskogo Street, Yakutsk, 677007, Russia)
Keywords
Yakutia, Middle Ages, Kulun-Atakh culture, flexed position burial, position of skeletal remains, funeral rite, ethnographic parallels, Yakut ethnic history
Abstract
The article examines burials in a flexed position among the Late Middle Age population of Central Yakutia. We provide information on the general features and dating of the burials, medical and anatomical descriptions of the corpse placement, as well as available ethnographic and folklore evidences. The comparison of various historical and cultural parallels makes it possible to argue that in the Middle Age archaeological cultures of the Baikal area, there are burials that are analogous to the flexed position burials of the Yakut. The data obtained as a result of this research make important contributions to our knowledge of the early ethnic history of the Yakut.
Citation
Bravina, R.I., V.M. Dyakonov, E.Yu. Kolbina, and D.M. Petrov. 2017. Ranneiakutskie pogrebeniia so skorchennym trupopolozheniem na boku kak istoriko-etnograficheskii istochnik [Early Yakut Burials in the Flexed Position as a Historical and Ethnographic Source]. Etnograficheskoe obozrenie 4: 83-98
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