Identifying the Criteria for Determining Status Burials by Results of Integrated Analysis

Abstract

ABSTRACTChemical-technology investigation was carried out for 95 belt sets from the burials of 8th−11thcenturies. In its course three groups of burials were separated on the basis of archaeology-statistical features; the Group 3 was identified as status one. All the groups contain belt sets made from the cooper-based alloys which include silver (6.98−92.87%) and amalgam. The major scheme of the belt sets (Groups 1, 2, 3) production is casting in moulds with print of used plaques; there are belt sets in Groups 1 and 2 which were made in different way (lost wax casting, casting in moulds with print of special matrix, forging). Chemical and technology parameters of the belt sets from the elite burials of the Group 3 are similar to the parameters of the belt sets discovered in the common burials of the Groups 1 and 2. There are a number of burials in the Group 1 the belt sets of which according to their chemical-technology characteristics could be attributing to the “award”.