Radiocarbon chronology of Late/Final Bronze Age sites in Central Kazakhstan
Varfolomeev V. Bedelbayeva M.
30 June 2025Margulan Institute of Archaeology
Kazakhstan Archeology
2025#2025Issue 256 - 73 pp.
For the first time, the article introduces into scientific circulation three new radiocarbon dates of Late Bronze Age sites in Central Kazakhstan from the materials of the Temirkash and Tesiktas burial grounds, Akkezen settlements (excavation 3), obtained in laboratories in Novosibirsk (Russia) and Vilnius (Lithuania). The disparity of the available 14 C data from various publications makes it difficult to model a continuous chronological scale and determine the length of the Late Bronze Age in Central Kazakhstan. The bibliography of works devoted to the period of the late (final) Bronze Age of Central Kazakhstan clearly shows a paradoxical understanding of the cultural situation. There are two cultures – Begazy–Dandybai and Sargary–Alekseevskoe. The chronological relationship between them was initially considered at the level of a typological analysis of archaeological sources. In the second half of the twentieth century, the late date of the Begazy-Dandybai funerary monuments (10th–8th centuries BC) was postulated, and later, in 2014, it was adjusted to the 14th–10th centuries BC. New research, supplemented, among other things, by materials from settlements, expanded the boundaries of the epoch within the 13th–9th centuries BC. As a result of the conducted research, the authors systematized the published series of radiocarbon dating of the Late Bronze Age sites of the region. Further accumulation of archaeological data, taking into account the obtained dates of absolute chronology, makes it possible to substantiate the beginning of the Late/Final Bronze Age of Central Kazakhstan in the 15th century BC and the end – the beginning 9th century BC. The existence of one culture belonging to the common culture of roller ceramics, represented by monuments of two social strata – the elite and the ordinary population, is argued.
archaeology , burial grounds , Central Kazakhstan , chronology , epoch , final Bronze Age , radiocarbon dating , settlements
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