The Medieval site of Kosozen in the Kaskelen river valley
Rogozhinskiy A. Shatokhin A.
2024Margulan Institute of Archaeology
Kazakhstan Archeology
2024#2024Issue 3135 - 150 pp.
In 2022, near the village of Kosozen, in the Kaskelen River valley, north of Almaty, a large series of objects (more than 90 units) were discovered, the compact arrangement of which marks the location of an unfortified medieval camp on the trade route between the Ili ferry and urban settlements in the foothills of the Zailiysky (Ileisky) Alatau. Metal objects from the site belong to several categories: jewelry (rings, signet rings, pendants-amulets), belt and horse bridle parts (buckles, decorative overlay plaques, bells, rivets), coins and weapons. An exploratory pit at the site did not reveal significant cultural deposits, but the combined dating of the object complex indicates that the site functioned for a long time in the mid-8th - mid-13th centuries.
archeology , Ili Valley , medieval urban culture , Silk Road , site , trade route
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Margulan Institute of Archaeology, Almaty, Kazakhstan
Almaty, Kazakhstan
Margulan Institute of Archaeology
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