Excavations of the kultobe settlement of Arys and Kylyshzhar burial ground in south Kazakhstan
Săpăturile în aşezarea fortificată Kultobe din Arys şi în necropola Kylyshzhar din Kazahstanul de Sud
Раскопки городища Культобе Арысского и могильника Кылышжар в Южном Казахстане
Podushkin A.N. Donets A.G.
2021High Anthropological School University
Stratum Plus
2021#2021Issue 4333 - 347 pp.
The article addresses the main results of the activities of the South Kazakhstan State Pedagogical University’s Archaeological team in 2020 field season under the regional research program “Monuments of writing and archeology of the state of Kangyuy (Kangju) in the 2nd century BC — 4th century AD”. The team conducted systematic excavations on the Kultobe Arys settlement (rabad territory) and the Kylyshzhar burial ground (southwestern group of burial mounds, mounds 11 and 12). In the course of work on the Kultobe settlement, an assemblage of archaeological finds was obtained, including ceramics of various functional purposes, tools made of stone, bone, and an epigraphic artifact — a full text in Proto-Sogdian (Kangju) writing on a ceramic brick-table. The uncovered catacomb burials of the Kylyshzhar burial ground made it possible to obtain archaeological complexes of the 1st—3rd century BC, possibly the beginning of the 4th century AD (ceramics, jewelry, household items), which by their historical and cultural parameters are associated with the Sarmatian-Xiongnu world of Central Eurasia and the state of Kangju.
1st century BC — 3rd century AD , Archaeological complex , Catacomb , Epigraphic artifact , Kangju , Sarmatians , Settlement , South Kazakhstan
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South Kazakhstan State Pedagogical University, Shymkent, Kazakhstan
Turkestan Regional Museum of History and Local Lore, Shymkent, Kazakhstan
South Kazakhstan State Pedagogical University
Turkestan Regional Museum of History and Local Lore
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