IMC 2017: Sessions
Session 309: Bringing in the Alans, II: Society and Economy of Alania
Monday 3 July 2017, 16.30-18.00
| Sponsor: | Department of History, School of Oriental & African Studies, University of London |
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| Organisers: | Nicholas Evans, Institut für Mittelalterforschung, Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Wien John Latham-Sprinkle, Department of History, School of Oriental & African Studies, University of London |
| Moderator/Chair: | Hugh Kennedy, Department of the Languages & Cultures of the Near & Middle East, School of Oriental & African Studies, University of London |
| Paper 309-a | 'Alans' in the North Caucasus: Settlement and Identity (Language: English) Index terms: Archaeology - Sites, Architecture - Religious, Byzantine Studies, Geography and Settlement Studies |
| Paper 309-b | Population and Society in the Sarmatian and Early Alanic North Caucasus: The Cemetery of Klin-Yar (Near Kislovodsk, Russia) (Language: English) Index terms: Archaeology - General, Archaeology - Sites, Economics - General |
| Paper 309-c | Alans on the Move: A Case Study in the Archaeology of Mobility (Language: English) Index terms: Anthropology, Economics - Trade, Historiography - Modern Scholarship, Social History |
| Abstract | This the second of two sessions on the Alans, a people of the steppe and North Caucasus. Due to the lack of any written administrative records from within the region, the study of the society and economy of Alania is especially dependent on archaeological evidence. This panel will present papers by two archaeologists who have worked extensively in the Central North Caucasus, in which they develop models for Alan social and economic structure in the first millennium, and a further paper on approaches to mobility of people and goods in the archaeological scholarship on the Alans. |