Metal composition of inventory from the grave of the podgornovsky stage of the tagar culture of the Kosogol II burial ground in the northern forest-steppe (according to the materials of excavations by A. I. Martynov in 1985)

Abstract

Materials about metallurgy of the Podgornovo Stage are the least representative in the total volume of data on non-ferrous metal production of the Tagar culture in the northern forest-steppe. New data on the elemental composition of metal from the burial of the Kosogol II burial ground (excavations by A. I. Martynov in 1985, Uzhursky district of the Krasnoyarsk Territory) illustrate the production traditions of the northern forest-steppe population in the Early Tagar time and significantly supplement the ideas about them formed back in the 1960s and based on materials from the burial of the Podgornovo Stage in the Izykchul II burial ground (excavations by N. L. Chleno-va in 1962). The materials introduced into scientific circulation testify to the manufacture during this period of accompanying funerary items made of copper, arsenic copper and arsenous bronze. The metal is characterized by increased geochemical concentrations of nickel and arsenic. The obtained data are in good agreement with the known results of studies of the composition of the Pod-gornovo metal from the sites of the Minusinsk steppe basins, carried out by S. V. Khavrin. The similarity of the set of recipes for copper-based alloys indicates the unity of the copper-arsenic metallurgical tradition in the Podgornovo period, which prevailed throughout the Tagar culture and, obviously, had roots in the production traditions of the cultures of the Bronze Age.