„ÄR QIƒСÄQLANDI, ÄR OγUZLANDI”. ONE MORE TIME ABOUT THE KRYLOS BURIALS FROM AN ASIAN PERSPECTIVE
https://doi.org/10.15330/hal_swc.10.10-22
Keywords:
Krylos, Turks, Old Magyars, Pechenegs, Yugra, Subbotsy horizon, Ural-Kama region, funeral archaeologyAbstract
In this article, the author returns to the open topics of an article that appeared in 2018 on the page of the collection of scientific papers ‘Halych’. It concerned the Asian and Ural-Kama perspectives of two burials of elite mounted archers from the vicinity of the Krylos settlement (Ivano-Frankivsk region, Ukraine). The research basis was the available studies of the first author of the excavations, Yaroslaw Pasternak, who excavated the barrows in 1935, as well as repeated archaeological research of the site conducted by Bogdan Tomenchuk in 2006 and published in a monographic edition on the archaeology of the Galician region. The essay provides an outline and supplementary information on the Asian past of the ancestors of the nomadic Old Magyars, the formation of their distinctive culture in the basins of the Kama, Vyatka and Biala rivers, and focuses on the peculiarities related to the funeral ritual of the mounted warriors buried in Krylos. The architecture of the burial differs from the funerary rituals of the Old
Magyars and their ancestors, and the funerary rites related to the positioning of the dead and the way the horses were laid out have clear connotations of Turkic (Pecheneg) rituals. The warriors themselves were dressed in clothes and jewellery of Ural-Kama origin. Further considerations therefore concern cultural relations with neighbouring peoples both from the Asian past of the Hungarians and from the subsequent stages of their migration and attempts to interpret who the deceased were and why a mixed funeral ritual was applied to them. Due to the unique nature of both complexes, it would be worthwhile to re-examine the set of artifacts using modern research methods used in archaeology, as well as to make available the archival materials from the research from the 1930s – which, as it turns out, have been preserved in excellent condition.
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