SECURE-AND-PRESERVE RESEARCH OF THE OKTYABRSKIY I AND KIEVSKIY I BURIAL GROUNDS OF EARLY ALANIAN CULTURE AT THE MIDDLE TEREK IN MOZDOK DISTRICT OF THE REPUBLIC OF NORTH OSSETIA-ALANIA IN 2019

Authors

  • Vladimir Ur'evic Malasev The Institute of Archeology Russian Academy of Science 0000-0002-1276-7650 (unauthenticated)
  • Rabadan Gadzievic Magomedov LLC “Research and Production Center “DARS”
  • Feliks Safarbekovic Dzucev LLC “Archaeology Center”
  • Hamid Magomedovic Mamaev Institute of Humanitarian Studies Academy of Sciences of Chechen Republic
  • Zalina Petrovna Kadzaeva Institute of History and Archaeology

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.32653/CH162439-460

Keywords:

Republic of North Ossetia-Alania, security and rescue excavations, Kievsky-I and Oktyabrsky-I burial ground mounds, Alan culture, 3rd – first half of the 5th century AD.

Abstract

In May-August of 2019, Terek comprehensive archeological expedition (LLC “Research and production center «DARS»”), Caucasian expedition (Institute of archeology of RAS) and Chechen expedition (Institute of humanitarian studies of AS of Chechen Republic), with the financial support of PJSC “Gazprom” (LLC “Gazprom Invest”, Saint-Petersburg) and LLC “Kirus” (Grozny), conducted secure-and-preserve digs of burial grounds Oktyabrskiy I and Kievskiy I of the early Alanian culture on the construction site of the main gas pipeline “Mozdok-Grozny” in Mozdok district of the Republic of North Ossetia-Alania. At Oktyabrskiy I burial ground, the following burials were studied: 122 mound and non-mound burial complexes of the 3rd – first half of the 5th century AD, on Kievskiy I – 40 complexes of the second half of 4th – first half of the 5th century AD, and one burial of the 14th century AD. The vast majority of the burials were made in catacombs of the Type I (the long axis of the chamber is perpendicular to the long axis of the entrance pit). The studied sample of burials supplements the results of excavations of 2018 and makes the studied monuments supporting for the territory of the Middle Terek at the time indicated. The population, which abandoned the burials of the type Bratskiy I mounds, Oktyabrskiy I and Kievskiy I, participated in cultural and historical processes in the territory of the West Peri-Caspian region, where their presence in the second half of the 3rd century AD has been recorded in the Tersko-Sulak interfluve since the middle of the 4th century AD – in southern Dagestan, as well as on the northern outskirts of the Kislovodsk basin.

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Author Biographies

  • Vladimir Ur'evic Malasev, The Institute of Archeology Russian Academy of Science
    Bio Statement: PhD (in Archeology), Senior Researcher of the Department of Scythian-Sarmatian Archeology Researcher focus: Sarmatian cultures, Alan culture, chronology, cultural genesis, migration in the Caucasus
  • Rabadan Gadzievic Magomedov, LLC “Research and Production Center “DARS”
    PhD (in History), General Director
  • Feliks Safarbekovic Dzucev, LLC “Archaeology Center”
    General Director
  • Hamid Magomedovic Mamaev, Institute of Humanitarian Studies Academy of Sciences of Chechen Republic
    Ph.D. (in History), Deputy Director
  • Zalina Petrovna Kadzaeva, Institute of History and Archaeology
    Researcher

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Malasev VU, Magomedov RG, Dzucev FS, Mamaev HM, Kadzaeva ZP. SECURE-AND-PRESERVE RESEARCH OF THE OKTYABRSKIY I AND KIEVSKIY I BURIAL GROUNDS OF EARLY ALANIAN CULTURE AT THE MIDDLE TEREK IN MOZDOK DISTRICT OF THE REPUBLIC OF NORTH OSSETIA-ALANIA IN 2019. ИАЭК. 2020;16(2):439-460. doi:10.32653/CH162439-460