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The Burials of the Hunnish Period Bowmen in Northern Illyricum

Погребения лучников гуннского времени в Северном Иллирикуме

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The paper considers two burials with bows of the Hunnish period from the Northern Illyricum territory. They contained bone laths of a bow – Singidunum IV (ancient Singidunum), grave 2/2006 and Vranja, grave 2. A 120–150 cm long bow with bone laths was the Huns’ principal weapon. For the Migration period there are two main regions where burials with bow bone laths were spread: Russian-Ukrainian steppes and the Middle Danube region. The Migration period burials with bow bone laths are known both among steppe peoples and among sedentary barbarians. The bow containing graves in Northern Illyricum can be identified as belonging to the “upper middle class” barbarians of the Middle Danube. In the age of Attila there appeared a group of burial grounds on the Middle Danube that contained graves with weapons, including bows and arrows, that are an archeological evidence of smaller militarized formations (“the barbarian kingdoms”), to an extent controlled by the Hunns. In these sites’ materials, particularly, in military gear and horse harness, the steppe influence is clearly traced. They were left by a culturally heterogeneous population, that had partially arrived to the Danube region from outer territories. The emergence of these groups of sites is connected with transformations of a military, political and cultural character, generated by the Hunns’ entrenchment on the Middle Danube. After the fall of the Huns’ “empire” these militarized groups eventually form an alliance with the Roman empire. These formations are budding “barbarian” kingdoms – gentes of the post Hunnish period, that appear both at the Roman provinces’ territories, and in the adjacent Barbaricum. Presumably, the Northern Illyricum sites constitute one of such groups.
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hal-03916229 , version 1 (30-12-2022)

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Michel M Kazanski. Погребения лучников гуннского времени в Северном Иллирикуме. ИА РАН. Балканы, Подунавье и Восточная Европа в римское время и эпо- ху Средневековья: Материалы II российско-сербской археологической конференции «Славяне в мире Балкан и Восточной Европы: ис- торико-археологическая панорама» (14–21 мая 2017, г. Москва), pp.138-149, 2022, 978-5-94375-383-1. ⟨10.25681/IARAS.2022.978-5-94375-383-1⟩. ⟨hal-03916229⟩
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