Archaeology, Ethnology & Anthropology of Eurasia 37 (3) 2009

Annotation:  Middle Paleolithic Industries of the Early Late Pleistocene (OIS 5) in the Southwestern Part of East Evidence of Environmental Instability of the Lake Baikal Area after the Last Glaciation (Based on P Radiocarbon Chronology of Neolithic and Bronze Age Cultures in Yakutia Clay Balls from Suchu Island as Neolithic Sacral Symbols Models of Metal Production in the Near East (Chalcolithic – Middle Bronze Age) Chinese Inscription on the Lacquer Cup from Noin Ula Mound 20 (Mongolia) Horse Forehead Pieces from the Kuban Region The Pakhomovskaya Culture of the Late Bronze Age Stone Stele Bearing a “Sun-Headed” Deity on the Tuim River, Khakassia (In commemoration of the Finni Methodological Issues in the Digital Mapping of Archaeological Sites The Church of the Saviour from Zashiversk: The Dendrochronological Aspect The “Harlequin”: An Ostyak Idol “Technological Eschatology” in Modern Traditions of Popular Orthodoxy and among the Old Believers o Mummery in the Calendar Rites of German Settlers in Siberia Silver of Kazakh Zergers: Traditions in Modern Jewelry Art Dental Remains from Mound 20 at Noin-Ula, Mongolia The Origin of the Medieval Population of the Novgorod Republic) (10th–13th centuries): A Craniometri   

The Pakhomovskaya Culture of the Late Bronze Age

O.N. Korochkova.

The distribution area of the Pakhomovskaya culture is located in the forest-steppe region of the Tobol-Irtysh basin. The Pakhomovskaya culture represents part of the Andronovo-type community which originated in the northern periphery of the Andronovo world as a result of contacts existing between aboriginal and immigrant (Andronovo) groups. In the west, the Pakhomovskaya culture bordered on the Cherkaskul culture, in the south, the early Alekseyevka-Sargary culture, and in the east, the distribution area of Ordynskoye sites and those of the Novochekino variant of the Suzgun culture. The specifi c characteristics of the Pakhomovskaya culture are refl ected in ceramic designs, artifact types, funeral rites, and settlements. Both producing and foraging economies were practiced. There is reason to suppose that the Pakhomovskaya people, along with other groups, introduced the producing economy to the taiga world, and that these contacts account for Indo-European borrowings in native languages. Given the ties that existed between the Pakhomovskaya, the Cherkaskul and the early Alekseyevka-Sargary cultures, the Pakhomovskaya culture is estimated to date to the 14th–13th centuries BC.

Keywords: Bronze Age, Western Siberia, Pakhomovskaya culture, Andronoid community.