KAMYANA BABA
Individual specimen record for PRM 1890.30.1.
Digital Heritage Museum
Museum of Ritual and Funerary Practices
Exploring the intersections of death, anthropology, archaeology, territories, and art through a rigorous and reflective digital archive.
Every culture has its own answers.M.A.A.A.T. embraces them all.
Curated entry points into our cross-disciplinary research and archival holdings.
Death
Rites, practices, symbols, and representations of death across cultures and through time.
Anthropology
Cultural practices, collective memory, oral traditions, identity, and community.
Archaeology
Funerary contexts, sites, finds, and archaeological layers of funerary and ritual practices.
Territories
Cultural landscapes, places of memory, historical maps, and territorial contexts.
Art
Iconography, funerary art, devotional objects, and artistic and symbolic expressions.
Digital Archive
Grief has passed through me, and I have transformed that passage into research.
KAMYANA BABA
General category record for Cuman-Polovtsian anthropomorphic stone statues.
KAMYANA BABA
Synthesis of KAMYANA BABA statues, contexts, chronology, and methodology.
No image available
ANTHROPOMORPHIC STEPPE STATUES
Methodology for the identification of male sex in anthropomorphic steppe statues.
No image available
Bossed bone plaques
Comparative synthesis linked to object/lot records already catalogued by the project; does not describe a single specimen.
Geographies of the Afterlife
Loading collection points…
A visual overview of the research terrain. The adjacent action opens the interactive collection-points map.
About the Association
The MAAAT Association is a scholarly collective dedicated to the interdisciplinary study of human mortality through material culture. We maintain public archives, publish peer-reviewed research, and curate digital exhibitions to foster a dignified, cross-disciplinary understanding of heritage.
15k+
Digital Records24
CollaborationsA living field of inquiry
Our research brings material evidence, lived experience, and artistic interpretation into conversation. The association supports slow looking, careful documentation, and public access to knowledge.
- Material culture and the evidence carried by objects.
- Territories, routes, and the memory held by place.
- Artistic practices that make new readings possible.
Agenda & Publications
OCT12
NOV05
From mocked integrations
The M.A.A.A.T. System
M.A.A.A.T. is an integrated and interoperable cataloguing and research system based on international standards for the management of tangible and intangible cultural heritage.
Learn more about the projectReference legislation
- Legislative Decree 42/2004 – Code of Cultural and Landscape Heritage
Participation & community
M.A.A.A.T. promotes the active participation of communities, scholars, institutions, and citizens in the shared construction of knowledge and the safeguarding of memory.
Participate in the project