Special Rituals, Rites and Customs of Treatment of Human Bodies (A Case Study of Sarmatian Cultures)
Journal: Nizhnevolzhskiy Arheologicheskiy Vestnik
Year: 2019

This article presents characteristics of special rituals, rites and customs identified in Sarmatian cultures of Eastern Europe. For example, a group of prone burials of the Late Sarmatian time was distinguished in the course of the research. As shown by the comparative historical analysis of the prone burials, this society differed from other synchronous groups of the population in the relatively mass nature of such burials. Analysing the details of the burial rite does not provide an unambiguou