"THE HEADLESS HORSEMAN" OF THE MIGRATION PERIOD FROM THE CENTRAL ALTAI

Abstract

Currently, the results of a productive research of the excavations of several dozen mounds which refers to Bulan-Koby archaeological culture have contributed to the accumulation of the source base for exploring of the history of Altai in the Great Migration of Peoples. The processed archaeological materials can elucidate to the complex mechanisms concerning of the ethnogenetic development on the stage of history from these region, due to the interaction of different ethnic groups of the local and alien population. Current stage in the researching of these processes involves the comprehensive analysis as already known archaeological materials and so verifying new hypothesis and new research methods concerning to materials from the period of the III - IV centuries AD. The comprehensive reconstruction of the history, the chronology, the ethno-history and sociogenesis processes in the region's population is expected result of scientific research in this field. The implementation of such studies is carried out mainly due to the archaeological excavations from the burial ground which is known as Stepushka-I - such is the main monument from the later period of the Xianbei-Zhuzhan Time from the Central Altai. It can be dated by the IV AD. This publication is introduced into the scientific circulation submissions of the research materials from mound№5 where is contained of horseman's burial with traces of violent death. Such a tendency demonstrates the particular proof of the important ethno-cultural processes and to a certain extent ambiguous developments in the nomadic culture going on the Central Altai in the Great Migration of Peoples.