MAIASP. 2024. No. 18

Alexey Kukushkin (Karaganda, Kazakhstan), Yevgeniy Dmitriev (Karaganda, Kazakhstan), Sagyndyk Zhauymbai (Karaganda, Kazakhstan), Ilya Gusev (Karaganda, Kazakhstan)

Saka burial from Central Kazakhstan: results of interdisciplinary research

DOI: 10.53737/2713-2021.2024.71.55.005

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Pages: 91—104

Thе article contains the materials of research of the Early Tasmola burial in Central Kazakhstan. The obtained material is represented by jewelry in the form of gold earrings, pendants and stone beads. The discovery of a grain grinder and a grindstone in the mound raises the question of secondary farming by the nomadic population in the Early Iron Age. Age and sex determinations of human remains, trace analysis of the grinder mechanism, and the rocks of stone products were determined. Radiocarbon analysis allowed to date the investigated construction within the framework of the middle of 8th — end of 6th centuries BC. This agrees with the typological analogies of gold earrings found in the burial.

Key words: Central Kazakhstan, Early Iron Age, kurgan, jewelry, grinder mechanism, radiocarbon dating.

Received  July 14, 2024

Accepted for publication July 31, 2024.

About the authors:

Kukushkin Alexey (Karaganda, Kazakhstan). PhD (History), Karaganda Buketov University.

E-mail: tatarlandia@mail.ru

Dmitriev Yevgeniy (Karaganda, Kazakhstan). Karaganda Buketov University.

E-mail: yevgenii1992@mail.ru

Zhauymbai Sagyndyk (Karaganda, Kazakhstan). Karaganda Buketov University.

E-mail: sagyndyk.zhauymbay@mail.ru

Gusev Ilya (Karaganda, Kazakhstan). Karaganda Buketov University.

E-mail: darth_vader.91@mail.ru