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MAIASP. 2024. No. 17
Sergey Yarygin (Almaty, Kazakhstan), Sergazy Sakenov (Semey, Kazakhstan)
Stone stelas and plates in the cult practice of the population of
Northern Kazakhstan II—I millennium BCE)
DOI: 10.53737/2713-2021.2024.80.43.004
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The article is a
publication about stone sculptures from funerary and cult monuments of Northern Kazakhstan of the 2nd millennium BCE — turn of
the 1st century BCE — 1st century CE. Data is provided on nine sculptures
from the territory of the Zerenda and Burabay districts of the Akmola
region, seven of them are dated to the Bronze Age, two to the early Iron Age.
Three statues are fixed in closed complexes — at the bottom of the grave pit,
in the backfill or on the ceiling. The four steles are part of funerary or
memorial structures from Bronze Age burial grounds. Two steles are located as
part of a cult megalithic structure. Based on the data obtained, the authors
come to the conclusion that an active tradition of using stone steles
appeared in Northern Kazakhstan, in
particular on the territory of the Kokshetau
Upland, in the Late Bronze Age among the population of the Fedorov archaeological culture. It is impossible to
completely exclude the pre-Andronovo period, the
burials of which were identified from the materials of the Tazhegul burial ground. Finds of steles from the next
period are still rare; the only stele discovered in a burial mound
demonstrates a connection with monuments from Altai to the Middle Ciscaucasia.
The anthropomorphic slab from the burial at the turn of the era is similar to
the slabs from the Sarmatian monuments of the Southern Urals.
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