A child’s burial and new data of radiocarbon dating of monuments of the early Iron Age in Сentral Kazakhstan
Dmitriev Y. Kukushkin A. Maken A. Shokhatayev O.
2022Margulan Institute of Archaeology
Kazakhstan Archeology
2022#15Issue 198 - 109 pp.
The article discusses the results of fieldwork on the early Iron Age burial mound, investigated in the Aktogay district of the Karagandy region. It had an uncovered stone mound, under which the burial of a 4–5 yearold child laid on his back in an elongated position was recorded, accompanied by stone beads, an iron knife, a stone whetstone and a gold overlay. The Tasmola cultural identity of the excavated complex is indicated, first of all, by the zoomorphic overlay, on which the profile of a feline predator was depicted, which is characteristic of the Scythian- Saka animal style. In view of the absence of more specific chronological reference points, the investigated burial should be dated within a wide framework of the 8th–5th centuries BC. The results of radiocarbon dating of the burials of the Tasmola culture in the barrows of Borly and Senkibay-2 are also introduced into scientific circulation, which to a certain extent corrected the preliminary dating of these complexes, based on the method of typological analogies. According to new data, firstly, the materials of the Senkibay-2 burial ground should be somewhat dated to the 9th – beginning of the 8th century BC; secondly, the burial of the Borly mound should be dated to a slightly wider time range – the middle of the 8th – middle of the 6th century BC.
Archaeology , Central Kazakhstan , Early Iron Age , Radiocarbon dating , Tasmola culture
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Karagandy Buketov University, Karagandy, Kazakhstan
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