Archaeology, Ethnology & Anthropology of Eurasia 43 (2) 2015

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Metal Details of Mongolian Age Belt-Sets from the Angara Taiga

P.O. Senotrusova, P.V. Mandryka, and A.A. Tishkin.

Belt-sets with saber clip-plates and other metal details had appeared during the time of the Mongolian Empire and eventually spread across Eurasia. Items of six such sets, manufactured of nonferrous metals, were found at Prospikhinskaya Shivera IV on the lower Angara. The chemical composition of the alloys indicates several casting techniques. The Angara belts testify to cultural contacts in high medieval northern Eurasia.

Keywords: Angara, High Middle Ages, cultural contacts, belt-sets, X-ray fluorescence analysis, alloy composition.