Viktor Trifonov
Biographic Data
| ID | 1124064 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Viktor Trifonov |
| GIVEN NAMES | Viktor |
| FAMILY NAME | Trifonov |
| SIGNATURE | TRIFONOV V |
| AFFILIATIONS | Institute of History of Material Culture |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3188-9311 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 7 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 11 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1994 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Dietary habits of the medieval Nogais in the Lower Don region
Introduction. The paper explores the dietary system of a Nogai group from kurgan 3 at the Sukhaya Termista II in the Rostov region, typical nomads who lived in the Sal river basin at the end of the 16th–early 17th centuries. The analysis of the δ13С and δ15N values of bone collagen helped gain a better understanding of possible components of their dietary system and provided the basis for comparing the results obtained and historical and ethnogra…
Tricky technology of making silver seed beads in the Early Bronze Age, NW Caucasus
This study reconstructed the technical chaîne operatoire of silver seed bead production in the Maikop culture on the basis of tracewear analysis and experimental research using silver beads from the Early Bronze Age dolmen (c. 3200–2900 bce ) in kurgan 2 at Tsarskaya (1898). The results demonstrate that such beads were produced as a “garland” lost wax casting, when a garland of beads is formed on a hollow dry stalk (straw) that burns out during t…
Views on the periodization and chronology of the Maykop culture in historical retrospect
Party like a Sumerian
The Bronze Age Maikop kurgan is one of the most richly furnished prehistoric burial mounds in the northern Caucasus. Its excavation in 1897 yielded a set of gold and silver tubes with elaborate tips and decorative bull figurines. Interpretations of these tubes include their use as sceptres and as poles to support a canopy. Re-examination of these objects, however, suggests they were used as tubes for the communal drinking of beer, with integral f…
The Multi-sided Dolmen with Tent-shaped Roof near Tsarskaya (Novosvobodnaya), 1869, North-Western Caucasus
This paper presents the results of archive and field investigations allowing us to reconstruct the architectural features, construction, basic dimensions, building stages, archaeological, chronological and cultural contexts of the unique multisided dolmen with a pyramidal (domed) roof, excavated by Nikolay Lvovich Kamenev in 1869 in North-Western Caucasus near the stanitsa (Cossack village) of Tsarskaya (modern Novosvobodnaya)
Genetic Diversity of Ancient Populations in the Caucasus and the Adjacent Steppes During the Eneolithic-Bronze Age (V-Ii Mill. Bc)
В статье представлен обзор новейших результатов анализа ДНК древних народов Кавказа и сопредельной степи в эпоху энеолита - бронзы (V-II тыс. до н. э.) и рассматриваются проблемы их культурно-исторической интерпретации. Выделено семь особенностей общей палеогенетической картины региона: 1. Формирование генотипа кавказских охотников-собирателей не позднее XII тыс. до н. э. и его раннее распространение за пределы Кавказа; 2. Существование на Кавказ…
The Production of Thin‐Walled Jointless Gold Beads from the Maykop Culture Megalithic Tomb of the Early Bronze Age at Tsarskaya in the North Caucasus
This study, the first of this kind, reconstructs the technical chaîne operatoire of thin‐walled jointless gold bead production in the Maykop culture on the basis of trace‐wear analysis, experimental research and comparative analysis, using gold beads from the Early Bronze Age dolmen ( c . 3200–2900 bc ) in kurgan 2 at Tsarskaya (discovered in 1898). The results of the study demonstrate that such beads were produced from a perforated disc‐shaped b…
A 5000-year-old souslik fur garment from an elite megalithic tomb in the North Caucasus, Maykop culture
This paper presents the results of a unique fur garment from the megalithic tomb of a rich man in the Northwest Caucasus, dated to the Early Bronze Age, which was excavated in 1898 (Tsarskaya, Russia). The garment was made from the fur of a souslik group animal, most likely the ground squirrel. Direct radiocarbon dating puts the fur at around 4445 ± 35 BP (ca. 3300-3000 BC), making it the earliest known fur garment in Eastern Europe. The choice o…
Directly dated broomcorn millet from the northwestern Caucasus
Zoomorphic scepter head from Anapa museum
The stone fi gured scepter head that represents the subject of this publication was discovered accidentally in the mid1950s, 30 km north of Anapa (Fig. 1) in the vineyards of the Prikubansky state farm, north of the Chekon farm-stead, between the farm-stead and the Yurovka – Varenikovskaya motorway. Several burial mounds are located in this area relating to a group of kurgans referred to as Malye Semibratnye (Salov, 1979: 101, N 40a, 41). The sce…
The Caucasus and the Near East in the Early Bronze Age (Fourth & Third Millennia Bc)
The Production of Thin‐Walled Jointless Gold Beads from the Maykop Culture Megalithic Tomb of the Early Bronze Age at Tsarskaya in the North Caucasus
This study, the first of this kind, reconstructs the technical chaîne operatoire of thin‐walled jointless gold bead production in the Maykop culture on the basis of trace‐wear analysis, experimental research and comparative analysis, using gold beads from the Early Bronze Age dolmen ( c . 3200–2900 bc ) in kurgan 2 at Tsarskaya (discovered in 1898). The results of the study demonstrate that such beads were produced from a perforated disc‐shaped b…
Directly dated broomcorn millet from the northwestern Caucasus
Tricky technology of making silver seed beads in the Early Bronze Age, NW Caucasus
This study reconstructed the technical chaîne operatoire of silver seed bead production in the Maikop culture on the basis of tracewear analysis and experimental research using silver beads from the Early Bronze Age dolmen (c. 3200–2900 bce ) in kurgan 2 at Tsarskaya (1898). The results demonstrate that such beads were produced as a “garland” lost wax casting, when a garland of beads is formed on a hollow dry stalk (straw) that burns out during t…
A 5000-year-old souslik fur garment from an elite megalithic tomb in the North Caucasus, Maykop culture
This paper presents the results of a unique fur garment from the megalithic tomb of a rich man in the Northwest Caucasus, dated to the Early Bronze Age, which was excavated in 1898 (Tsarskaya, Russia). The garment was made from the fur of a souslik group animal, most likely the ground squirrel. Direct radiocarbon dating puts the fur at around 4445 ± 35 BP (ca. 3300-3000 BC), making it the earliest known fur garment in Eastern Europe. The choice o…
The Caucasus and the Near East in the Early Bronze Age (Fourth & Third Millennia Bc)
Zoomorphic scepter head from Anapa museum
The stone fi gured scepter head that represents the subject of this publication was discovered accidentally in the mid1950s, 30 km north of Anapa (Fig. 1) in the vineyards of the Prikubansky state farm, north of the Chekon farm-stead, between the farm-stead and the Yurovka – Varenikovskaya motorway. Several burial mounds are located in this area relating to a group of kurgans referred to as Malye Semibratnye (Salov, 1979: 101, N 40a, 41). The sce…
Directly dated broomcorn millet from the northwestern Caucasus
The Production of Thin‐Walled Jointless Gold Beads from the Maykop Culture Megalithic Tomb of the Early Bronze Age at Tsarskaya in the North Caucasus
This study, the first of this kind, reconstructs the technical chaîne operatoire of thin‐walled jointless gold bead production in the Maykop culture on the basis of trace‐wear analysis, experimental research and comparative analysis, using gold beads from the Early Bronze Age dolmen ( c . 3200–2900 bc ) in kurgan 2 at Tsarskaya (discovered in 1898). The results of the study demonstrate that such beads were produced from a perforated disc‐shaped b…
A 5000-year-old souslik fur garment from an elite megalithic tomb in the North Caucasus, Maykop culture
This paper presents the results of a unique fur garment from the megalithic tomb of a rich man in the Northwest Caucasus, dated to the Early Bronze Age, which was excavated in 1898 (Tsarskaya, Russia). The garment was made from the fur of a souslik group animal, most likely the ground squirrel. Direct radiocarbon dating puts the fur at around 4445 ± 35 BP (ca. 3300-3000 BC), making it the earliest known fur garment in Eastern Europe. The choice o…
The Multi-sided Dolmen with Tent-shaped Roof near Tsarskaya (Novosvobodnaya), 1869, North-Western Caucasus
This paper presents the results of archive and field investigations allowing us to reconstruct the architectural features, construction, basic dimensions, building stages, archaeological, chronological and cultural contexts of the unique multisided dolmen with a pyramidal (domed) roof, excavated by Nikolay Lvovich Kamenev in 1869 in North-Western Caucasus near the stanitsa (Cossack village) of Tsarskaya (modern Novosvobodnaya)
Genetic Diversity of Ancient Populations in the Caucasus and the Adjacent Steppes During the Eneolithic-Bronze Age (V-Ii Mill. Bc)
В статье представлен обзор новейших результатов анализа ДНК древних народов Кавказа и сопредельной степи в эпоху энеолита - бронзы (V-II тыс. до н. э.) и рассматриваются проблемы их культурно-исторической интерпретации. Выделено семь особенностей общей палеогенетической картины региона: 1. Формирование генотипа кавказских охотников-собирателей не позднее XII тыс. до н. э. и его раннее распространение за пределы Кавказа; 2. Существование на Кавказ…
Party like a Sumerian
The Bronze Age Maikop kurgan is one of the most richly furnished prehistoric burial mounds in the northern Caucasus. Its excavation in 1897 yielded a set of gold and silver tubes with elaborate tips and decorative bull figurines. Interpretations of these tubes include their use as sceptres and as poles to support a canopy. Re-examination of these objects, however, suggests they were used as tubes for the communal drinking of beer, with integral f…
Views on the periodization and chronology of the Maykop culture in historical retrospect
Tricky technology of making silver seed beads in the Early Bronze Age, NW Caucasus
This study reconstructed the technical chaîne operatoire of silver seed bead production in the Maikop culture on the basis of tracewear analysis and experimental research using silver beads from the Early Bronze Age dolmen (c. 3200–2900 bce ) in kurgan 2 at Tsarskaya (1898). The results demonstrate that such beads were produced as a “garland” lost wax casting, when a garland of beads is formed on a hollow dry stalk (straw) that burns out during t…
Dietary habits of the medieval Nogais in the Lower Don region
Introduction. The paper explores the dietary system of a Nogai group from kurgan 3 at the Sukhaya Termista II in the Rostov region, typical nomads who lived in the Sal river basin at the end of the 16th–early 17th centuries. The analysis of the δ13С and δ15N values of bone collagen helped gain a better understanding of possible components of their dietary system and provided the basis for comparing the results obtained and historical and ethnogra…
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