The first results of the study of artifacts from the medieval cemetery of Staraya Ladoga were presented by scientists from the Institute of Materials and Materials of the Russian Academy of Sciences.
as he wrote DEA NewsMost of the finds were made in the double burial of two newborns and the grave of a one and a half year old child.
It was noted that no written source mentions the tens of burials west of Staraya Ladoga. It used to be farmland.
As noted by the staff of the Institute for the History of Material Culture of the Russian Academy of Sciences (IIMK RAS), the found cemetery combines pagan and Christian burials.
In older ones, all item sets have been preserved. Marianna Pavlova, a young researcher at the Department of Slavic-Finnish Archeology of the Institute for the History of Mathematics and the Mathematical Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, said that it reflected the ideas of people of the early Middle Ages about the afterlife or the afterlife.
He added that the late Christian era is represented by inhumations in rectangular burial pits with their heads facing west.
The pagan period includes two child burials in round recesses.
In one of these graves, there is a child aged one and a half to two years, and in the second, two newborns. Sets of items were placed in the tombs, including a comb, a molded pottery, an iron bell, a castle rivet disc, and a composite amulet made from a bear’s tooth and a horse’s wrist bone.