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intramural

CATEGORY: term
DEFINITION: Pertaining to graves located within the confines of a settlement. Graves outside a settlement are extramural.

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Boian

CATEGORY: culture
DEFINITION: A Neolithic culture (c 7000-3500 BC, some say Middle Neolithic c 4200-3700 BC) in lower Danube valley of southern Romania and characterized by terrace-floodplain settlements, consisting at first of mud huts and later of fortified promontory settlements of small tells. The Boian phase was marked by the introduction of copper axes, the extension of agriculture, and the breeding of domestic animals. The distinctive Boian pottery was decorated by rippling, painting, and excised or incised linear designs with white paste. Intramural burial is most common, but occasional large inhumation cemeteries are known. By spreading northward into Transylvania and northeastward to Moldavia, the Boian culture gradually assimilated earlier cultures of those areas. Flourishing exchange networks are known to involve Prut Valley flint, Spondylus shells from the Black Sea, and copper.

Ruse

SYNONYM: Russe, Roussé, Sexantaprista, Roustchouk
CATEGORY: site
DEFINITION: A city of northern Bulgaria, located on a major crossing-point of the Danube, which began as a fortified Roman harbor called Sexantaprista (Sixty Ships") in the 1st century BC. It was destroyed by barbarians in the 7th century. The Ottomans built a new town Roustchouk which subsequently bore the names Cherven and Roussé. It is the site of a large tell of the Karanovo V-VI group (4th millennium BC) where 11 Copper Age occupation levels have been uncovered. Interspersed between house levels were over 100 intramural burials."

Sapalli-depe

SYNONYM: Sapalli-Tepe
CATEGORY: site
DEFINITION: Site in southern Uzbekistan with Middle to Late Bronze Age occupation. Data found there defines the Sapalli phase of regional chronology, mid-late 3rd millennium BC. There was a central square fortification and intramural burials with well-preserved organic remains.