Intro
Preface of the editors
Preface of the cooperation partners / Предисловие
Предисловие
Preface and acknowledgement of the author
Предисловие автора и благодарения
Part I
Background and objectives of research
1 Introduction
1.1 Environmental and archaeological background
1.1.1 Topography and environment
1.1.2 The North Caucasian Bronze Age: Cultures and chronology
1.1.3 Climatic conditions
1.2 State of the art
1.2.1 Burial practices: Socio-ritual indicators
1.2.2 Human Remains: Osteology and Palaeopathology
1.2.3 Stable isotope analyses: Palaeodietary reconstructions
2 Research questions and methodological approach
2.1 The cemetery "Kudachurt 14" (chapter 3)
2.2 Burial practice: Social indicators (chapter 4)
2.3 Human remains: Demography and oral health (chapter 5)
2.4 Carbon and nitrogen stable isotopes: Palaeodietary reconstruction (chapter 6)
2.5 Interdisciplinary synthesis: Burial practice, human osteology, and stable isotopes (chapter 7)
2.6 Basic approach and terminology
3 The cemetery of Kudachurt 14
3.1 Location and environmental aspects
3.2 Excavation and subsequent work
3.2.1 Excavation techniques and on-site documentation
3.2.2 Inventory, preparation, and current state
3.3 Cemetery plan
3.4 Finds and chronology
3.4 1 Relative chronology and typological classification
3.4.2 Radiocarbon dating and stratigraphy
3.4.3 Summary: Chronology and typological classification
3.5 Kudachurt 14 and the MBA-LBA transition in the Northern Caucasus
Disciplinary Analyses: Burial Practices, Human remains and isotopes
4 Burial practice: Social indicators
4.1 Characteristics of burial practice
4.1.1 Spatial distribution
4.1.2 Elements of grave construction
4.1.3 Inhumations and burial type
4.1.4 Goods for the dead: burial items.

4.1.5 Data quality groups
4.2 Results 1: Basis of data and single characteristics
4.2.1 Elements of grave construction
4.2.2 Inhumation and burial types
4.2.3 Burial items
4.3 Results 2: Social proxies of burial practice
4.3.1 Construction elements, burial types and MNIG
4.3.2 Construction elements and burial item criteria
4.3.3 Burial item criteria: burial types and individuals
4.3.4 Burial item criteria: Assemblage functional character and burial type
4.3.5 Burial item criteria: Assemblage composition and burial type
4.3.6 Burial item criteria: Assemblage functional character and individuals
4.3.6.1 Single burials
4.3.6.2 Double burials
4.3.6.3 Collective burials
4.3.6.4 Bodily treatment
4.3.6.5 Interim result: Individual equipment
4.4 Chronological aspects
4.5 Discussion and evaluation: Burial practice and social indicators
4.5.1 Grave constructions: Proxies for effort or practicability?
4.5.2 Regularities of bodily treatment?
4.5.3 Burial item criteria: Cemetery
4.5.4 Funeral equipment groups: Commonalities or inequalities?
4.5.5 Social implications of burial practice
4.6 Conclusions
5 Human Remains: Demography and oral health
5.1 Functional data from human remains
5.2 The significance of biological sex and age at death
5.3 Dental pathology and oral health
5.4 Investigative parameters and methods
5.4.1 Anatomical terminology
5.4.2 Preparatory work and recording approach
5.4.3 Age at death
5.4.4 Biological sex
5.4.5 Categories of oral health
5.5 Material: Graves, individuals, and dentitions
5.6 Results 1: Skeletal preservation, demography, and categories of oral health
5.6.1 Data basis: Skeletal and dental preservation
5.6.2 Demography: Age at death and biological sex
5.6.3 Categories of oral health.

5.6.4 Summary oral health: Results 1
5.7 Results 2: Statuses of oral health and burial context
5.7.1 Correlations of oral health categories: Inter-individual comparison
5.7.2 Statuses of oral health, burial contexts and spatial distribution
5.8 Chronological aspects
5.9 Discussion and evaluation: Demography and oral health at Kudachurt 14
5.9.1 Demographic and palaeopathological implications
5.9.2 Dietary implications
5.9.3 Occupational habits
5.9.4 Social implications
6 Carbon and nitrogen stable isotopes: Palaeodietary reconstruction
6.1 Principles of stable isotope analyses
6.1.1 Basic concept and terminology
6.1.2 Stable C and N isotopes from bone collagen
6.1.3 Stable C and N isotopes in palaeodietary reconstructions
6.2 Recent research on subsistence and diet in the North Caucasian Bronze Age
6.3 The significance of Kudachurt 14
6.4 Working hypotheses
6.5 Material and methods
6.5.1 Sample selection
6.5.2 Methods
6.6 Results
6.6.1 Collagen quality
6.6.2 Animal values
6.6.3 Human values
6.6.4 Animal and human values
6.7 Discussion and evaluation
6.8 Chronological aspects
6.9 Context of current C and N isotope research in the North Caucasian Bronze Age
6.10 Conclusion: Trends and limits of dietary reconstructions at Kudachurt 14
Interdisciplinary synthesis and conclusion
7 Interdisciplinary synthesis: Burial practice, human remains, and stable isotopes
7.1 Cemetery: Age, sex, and funeral equipment
7.2 Individual contexts: Burial practice, social inequality, and demography
7.3 Grave contexts: Social inequality, demography, oral health, and diet
8 Conclusions
8.1 Research questions and answers
8.1.1 The cemetery of Kudachurt 14 (chapter 3)
8.1.2 Burial practice: Social indicators (chapter 4).

8.1.3 Human remains: Demography and oral health (chapter 5)
8.1.4 Carbon and nitrogen stable isotopes: Palaeodietary reconstruction (chapter 6)
8.1.5 Interdisciplinary synthesis: Burial practice, human osteology, and stable isotopes (chapter 7)
8.2 Evaluation and research prospects
9 Short summary
10 Kurzzusammenfassung
11 краткая информация
12 References
13 Tables, figures and abbreviations
13.1 List of tables (short captions)
13.2 List of figures (short captions)
13.2.1 Copyrights
13.3 Abbreviations
Online data: catalogue and appendix
Online Data: Catalogue and Appendix
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