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4-2(60) 2008
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- E.V. Shelepova
Ritual Sites оf Nomads оf Altai оf Late Antiquity: Systematization аnd Analysis
Ritual complexes of biike, pazyryk, bulan-koba cultures of Altai of Late Antiquity epoch demonstrates different models of sacral space organization. Besides burial constructions, the basic elements were vertically installed objects (monuments, statues, #balbals#) and round and under-square circles-facings. They could be found in the territory of near-by-burial mound space, "adjoining" the burial mound or locating some distance from it or isolated from burial constructions. As the result of study of planegraphy, sacral orientation, construction and semantics of the named sites groups there was traced dynamics of there development and change in time, revealed lack of straight succession among the marked archaeological cultures.
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