“Seeing off my Beloved Child…”: XRF of Silver Jewelry from Children’s Graves in the Medieval Necropolis of Babchik Vostochny in the Kerch Azov Region
Journal: Stratum plus Archaeology and Cultural Anthropology
Year: 2024

The article studies the composition of the alloy and the technology of making silver jewelry found in children’s burials from Babchik Vostochny — a 14th century slab burial ground in the Crimean Azov region. Silver spherical ornamented buttons in the studied necropolis and in all other sites with similar accessories were found in children’s burials. Surely, they were not just fashionable at the time but belonged specifically to children’s and adolescent costumes. Widespread in Crimea in the 14th