Urbanity on the Mongolian Plateau in the Premodern Period

The first approach continues the comparison between two cities of the Mongolian Empire and their respective environs in present-day Mongolia and now focuses on the elites in the urban context. Targeted archaeological excavations within the city of Karakorum and in the northern bordering burial area serve to verify a postulated social topography also using bioarchaeological methods. The second approach takes a diachronic perspective in which the transformation of burial customs from the Bronze Age to the Turko-Mongolian era is to be analyzed. A third approach leads to a transcultural comparison on a large scale.