Archaeology, Ethnology & Anthropology of Eurasia 39 (1) 2011

Annotation:  Three Scenarios of the Middle to Upper Paleolithic Transition. Scenario 2: The Middle to Upper Paleo Chronology and Periodization of the Neolithic in the Upper and Middle Kama Region Paleolithic Art of the Carpathian-Dniester Region Raw Materials and Paste from Wheel-Thrown Ceramics from the Gnezdovo Burial Ground The Origins of Lead Archaeological Artifacts Using Mass Spectrometry Analysis Kelteminar Arrowheads from the Altai Dagger from the Late Bronze Age Settlement on the Lyuskus River The Archekas Celt and the Issue of the Seima-Turbino Period in the Kuznetsk Basin and in the Achins Bone Anthropomorphic Sculpture from the Ust-Polui Sanctuary Images in Bronze from the Sarovka Ritual Complex: Reconstructing Semantics Information-Theoretical Database Management System in the Context of Monuments Dating to the Pre-Sc Ritual Complexes of the Bolshoye Storozhevoye Fortifi ed Settlement in the Middle Don Area Erlik Khan in the Traditional Worldview of the Khakas Copper Casting in the Daily Life and Ritual Practices of Komi Old Believers Dogs in the Traditional Worldview of the Chuvash People A Proximal Pedal Phalanx of a Paleolithic Hominin from Denisova Cave, Altai Secular Dental Changes in the Populations of the Armenian Highland: Evolutionary and Ecological Asp A Nonmetric Cranial Study of the Andronovo Series from the Altai   

Dagger from the Late Bronze Age Settlement on the Lyuskus River

V.V. Bobrov.

The study provides a typological analysis of a dagger found at a Late Bronze Age settlement in Southern Siberia. The dagger has analogues among the same type of weaponry from Southeastern Europe (the Hetin Treasure and incidental fi nds). A sample from the burial of Kovacici-Vinogradi enables daggers of this type to be attributed to the Gava culture. It is suggested that this type of dagger is not typical of Southeastern Europe and that the origin of the artifact is related to the cultural genesis of the Bronze Age Black Sea region. The author proposes a hypothesis for the dagger’s origin based on the fact of transit exchange between the population of Europe and the population of Southern Siberia in the Late Bronze Age.

Keywords: Dagger, Lyuskus settlement, Gava culture, Bronze Age, Irmen culture, Western Siberia, Southeastern Europe.