Archaeology, Ethnology & Anthropology of Eurasia 38 (1) 2010

Annotation:  Siliceous Rock of the Southern Urals: Distribution and Usage in the Stone Age Periods, Boundaries, and Contact Zones in the Far Eastern Insular World of the Neolithic (Based on Oyster Cultivation and Archaeology as Producing Activities Early Iron Age Dyupsya Burial, Central Yakutia The “Osmium Trace” in Mineral Inclusions in Ancient Gold Artifacts Social Structure of the Early Medieval Population in the Upper Kama Region (Based on Evidence from t Bronze Helmet Recently Discovered in Mongolia The Matchmaker’s Staffs from Fort Nadym of the 17th–18th Centuries Dendrochronological Survey of the Towers from the Kazym Ostrog Dendrochronological Dating of the Groundsill for the Bell Tower of the Spasskaya Church in Irkutsk Marriages among the Tobol-Irtysh Tatars in the Late 18th – Early 20th Centuries The Altai Cossacks in the 18th – Early 20th Centuries ANTHROPOL A Fossil Human Humerus from Khvalynsk: Morphology and Taxonomy Skeletal Remains from Buston VI – a Sapalli Culture Cemetery in Uzbekistan New Craniometric Evidence on the Origin of the Karelians (the Kylalahti Kalmistomäki Burial Ground) The Maikop Crania Revisited   

Early Iron Age Dyupsya Burial, Central Yakutia

A.D. Stepanov.

An Early Iron Age burial has recently been discovered 5 km northeast of Dyupsya Village in Central Yakutia. The shallow burial pit was found to contain the body of a man buried in fl exed position with the head facing southeast. The burial goods include the remains of two end plate overlays belonging to a small bow, a fl int endscraper, eight fl int arrowheads with horn mediators for arrows, a long bone dagger or javelin head, a bone awl, fragment of an iron object, and fl int fl akes. To date, no other burial site of this kind has been discovered in Yakutia. The Dyupsya artifact assemblage is typologically similar to those of Pokrovsky burials of the Early Iron Age. The assemblage is preliminarily dated to the period 5th century BC – 5th century AD.

Keywords: Burial, skeleton, Early Iron Age, bow end plates, arrowheads, fl exed position.