Two Belt Overlays from the Burials of the Upper Ob Region Population of the Early Iron Age: Symbolism and Sacralization of Destruction
Abstract
The article is devoted to the consideration of two belt overlays originating from the burial two mounds eight of the Maslyakha-1 burial ground, published for the first time, and the graves one of the 15 mound of the Novotroitskoe-1 necropolis. Offered a hypothetical reconstruction of both the surviving fragments of the plates and their decoration. Based on the study of the topographical context of the discovery of finds, and the absence of their additional elements in the studied complexes, the author comes to the conclusion about the possible deliberate, ritual damage to these things. The analysis of the topography of the subject clothing in burials Bolsherechenskaya cultural-historical community provides some evidence of the deliberate undoing the belt of the deceased that reflects the shape of the treatment thing during a rite of passage, which can be defined as symbolic or functional degradation. This phenomenon can be considered from the point of view of studying the forms of situational sacralization of the subject complex of clothing. Destructive manipulations made with the belt and its accessories have broad semantic connotations, and are fixed on both archaeological and ethnographic materials. The symbolism of destruction can be considered from the point of view of the «inverted world» hypothesis noted by ethnographers, according to which a broken thing, by analogy with a dead person, gets a new life in another world.
About the Author
N. N. Golovchenko
Altai state pedagogical University
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Nikolay Nikolayevich Golovchenko, Candidate of Historical Sciences, Senior Lecturer of the Department of National History
55 Molodezhnaya st., Barnaul 656031
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Golovchenko N.N. Two Belt Overlays from the Burials of the Upper Ob Region Population of the Early Iron Age: Symbolism and Sacralization of Destruction. Universum Humanitarium. 2020;(2):18-35. (In Russ.)
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