Published: 2022-12-31

Podlasie cemeteries of graves with stone casing in light of interdisciplinary research

Katarzyna Skrzyńska
Archeologia Polski
Section: Studies
DOI https://doi.org/10.23858/APol67.2022.005

Abstract

The article presents selected research results of a NPRH (National Program for the Development of the Humanities) project “The origins of Christianity in the Masovian-Rus’ borderland”, carried out under the direction of Prof. Andrzej Buko in 2013–2016 at the Institute of Archaeology and Ethnology of the Polish Academy of Sciences. The research focused on early medieval inhumation cemeteries in Podlasie. Ancient DNA analyses demonstrated that individuals buried in the barrow graves were genetically different from the population interred in the flat cemeteries, whether with a stone casing around the grave or not. An anthropological comparative analysis of the populations from the cemeteries at Suraż and Czarna Wielka also indicated biostructural differences between the users of the two types of flat cemeteries. The results support the thesis about the foreign origins of the people buried in the cemeteries of graves with stone casing in Podlasie, and the at least partly foreign provenance of those using the burial grounds established around the major strongholds of the region.

Keywords:

Polish-Rus’ borderland, funerary rites, barrow graves, graves with stone casing, palaeogenetic studies, anthropological research, early medieval times

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Skrzyńska, K. (2022). Podlasie cemeteries of graves with stone casing in light of interdisciplinary research. Archeologia Polski, 67, 117–158. https://doi.org/10.23858/APol67.2022.005

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