JUCHI KHAN MAUSOLEUM: REALITIES, LEGENDS AND RITUALS

МАВЗОЛЕЙ ДЖУЧИ-ХАНА: РЕАЛИИ, ЛЕГЕНДЫ И ОБРЯД
Usmanova E.R. Uskenbay K.Z. Kozha M.B. Panyushkina I.P. Solovieva L.N. Akhatov G.A.
2022 Academy of Sciences of Tatarstan, A.Kh. Khalikov Archaeology Institute

Arkheologiia Evraziiskikh Stepei
2022 Issue 3 74 - 80 pp.

Lore and folk legends designate the burial of Jochi Khan, the eldest son of Genghis Khan, in the eponymous mausoleum in Ulytau, Kazakhstan. The mausoleum was built according to Islamic architecture of the 14^th-15^th centuries. A.Kh. Margulan, the author of archeological excavations, relying mostly on the folk legends designated the mausoleums burial to Jochi Khan. Radiocarbon dating of mausoleum determines two stages of its construction throughout the 14^th century and the burial box age later than the death of Jochi Khan in 1225. New evidence from the mausoleum architecture and artifacts suggests that Jochis burial is not in the mausoleum but a secret place prescribed by the Chinggisid canon. The assembly of Islamic and pre-Islamic traditions and the camel skull found in the burial indicates that the burial was made for a person of Islamic faith from the Golden Horde. Whereas the mausoleum was named in the honor of Jochi Khan.

camel cult , Golden Horde , Islamic mausoleum , Jochi Khan , pre-Islamic rituals , radiocarbon dating , secret burial

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Saryarka Archaeological Institute, Buketov Karaganda University, Universitetskaya Str., 28, Karaganda, 100024, Kazakhstan
Institute for Humanitarian Studies, ABDI, Seifullin Ave., 465, Almaty, 050050/A20C6G3, Kazakhstan
Research Institute of Archaeology of the H.A. Yasawi, International Kazakh-Turkish University, Sattarkhanov Ave. No. 29, Building 3, 116 South Kazakhstan region, Bekzat, Turkestan, 161200, Kazakhstan
University of Arizona, Laboratory of Tree-Ring Research, Tucson, United States
Institute of Archaeology Russian Academy of Sciences, Dm. Ulyanov St., 19, Moscow, 117292, Russian Federation
A.Kh. Margulan Institute of Archaeology, Al Farabi Kazakh National University, Dostyk av., 44, Almaty, 050100, Kazakhstan

Saryarka Archaeological Institute
Institute for Humanitarian Studies
Research Institute of Archaeology of the H.A. Yasawi
University of Arizona
Institute of Archaeology Russian Academy of Sciences
A.Kh. Margulan Institute of Archaeology

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