Issyk. New data: Based on the materials of kurgan no. 7 (South-East Kazakhstan)

Mukhtarova G. Tulegenov T. Besetayev B.
19 December 2022 Margulan Institute of Archaeology

Kazakhstan Archeology
2022 #18 Issue 4 84 - 96 pp.

For the first time in the article, the materials of the excavations of the elite burial mound no. 7 of the Issyk burial ground are introduced into scientific circulation. In the process of studying the monument, geo-radar studies of the kurgan embankment were carried out, as a result of which some structural features of the constructs were revealed (e. g.: Stone shell). Aerial, orthophoto and topographic plans of the object were made. According to the classification of the authors, which assumes the allocation of two types of Zhetysu mounds, the studied mound can be attributed to the second type based on the analysis of structural elements of the ground structure. In this case, it is a “platform” over which an embankment was subsequently constructed. Over the past decades, thanks to the methods of absolute dating, additional opportunities have appeared in the study of the chronology of the early Iron Age of Zhetysu. To date, 59 published absolute dates are known, obtained by analyzing materials from various monuments of the region: Burial grounds - Beshatyr, Kaspan-6, Karatuma, Katartobe; settlements - Tsyganka-8, Tuzusai, etc. According to the results of radiocarbon AMS dating of materials obtained during excavations, the monument dates from the second half of the 7^th-6th century BC. Thus, the date obtained by us is the first date for the Issyk burial ground.

Archaeology , Chronology , Early Iron age , Early nomads , Issyk burial ground , Radiocarbon analysis , Saka , Zhetysu

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