THE FINDS FROM THE DESTROYED BURIAL OF THE PAZYRYK CULTURE IN THE BARAGASH VILLAGE (the Altai Republic)

Keywords: Pazyryk culture, burial, painted vessels, riding horse equipment, cheekpiece, animal style

Abstract

The paper presents the results of the study of finds originating from the destroyed burial in the village of Baragash (the Shebalino district, the Altai Republic), located in the upper reaches of the Peschanaya river. The burial was destroyed in 2015 during the digging of a trench for the water supply, which passed approximately through the center of the burial mound. During the inspection of the mound, the employees of the Agency for Cultural and Historical Heritage of the Altai Republic collected details of horse equipment, jewelry, household items and weapons. The burial contained bone arrowheads, a bead, plaques made of gold foil, bronze clips, a painted ceramic vessel, a whetstone, and a horn cheekpiece. Fragmentary information about the structural features of the destroyed object, as well as the analysis of items allows us to establish that the complex belongs to the Pazyryk culture of the Scythian time of Altai. The horn cheekpiece found in the burial, decorated with the heads of a wolf and a bird of prey, as well as bronze clips, make it possible to establish the attributing of the object to an early group of Pazyryk sites. The absolute dating of the complex can be tentatively established by the end of the 6th – 5th centuries BC.

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Author Biography

N.A. Konstantinov, Gorno-Altaisk State University

Candidate of Historical Sciences, Associate Professor of the Department of History and Archaeology

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Published
2020-12-23
How to Cite
Konstantinov N. THE FINDS FROM THE DESTROYED BURIAL OF THE PAZYRYK CULTURE IN THE BARAGASH VILLAGE (the Altai Republic) // THEORY AND PRACTICE OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL RESEARCH, 2020. Vol. 32, № 4. P. 58-66 DOI: 10.14258/tpai(2020)4(32).-04. URL: http://journal.asu.ru/tpai/article/view/%2832%29.-04.
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MATERIAL ANALYSIS IN ARCHAEOLOGY