Archaeology, Ethnology & Anthropology of Eurasia 40 (1) 2012

Annotation:  Bairaki – a Lower Paleolithic Site on the Lower Dniester The Denticulate Mousterian as a Supposedly Distinct Facies in Western Central Asia Non-utilitarian Lithic Objects from the European Paleolithic Decorated Birch-Bark Artifacts from Section VI of the Gorbunovsky Peat-Bog An Alakul Funeral and Ritual Site in the Eastern Orenburg Region Medieval Amulet Illustrating the Divine Horseman Myth, Rozhdestveno, Perm Territory Face Images in Lower Angara Rock Art Boats in the Rock Art of Kanozero and Northern Europe New Data on Bronze Age Jewelry in the Southeastern Urals The Old Russian Male Funerary Attire (Based on Finds from the 10th–11th Century Burial Mounds at Goc Investigation of Wooden Burial Structures in the Process of Archaeological Excavations A Contribution to the Study of the Eastern Links of the Bronze Age Culture of the Northern Middle Vo Secular Imagery in the Islamic Space of Medieval Zirikhgeran Stone Statue of Ailyan, Gorny Altai Jurchen Pendants of the Netsuke Type Elements of Religious Ritualism in Popular Medicine among the Izhma Komi of the Lower Ob Region Early Metal Age Crania from Bolshoy Oleniy Island, Barents Sea   

A Contribution to the Study of the Eastern Links of the Bronze Age Culture of the Northern Middle Volga

S.V. Bolshov.

The fact that Bronze Age tribes of the Middle Volga supported eastern (Trans-Uralian) cultural links is evidenced by materials from the Yurino burial ground associated with the Seima-Turbino tradition, and by pottery with rolls and serpentine patterns from the Chirki settlements. Likewise, arsenic copper, of which artifacts from the Pepkino and Abashevo burials of the Abashevo culture are made, comes from the Tash-Kazgan mines in the Trans-Ural region. Eastern affi nities are also documented by Seima-type arrowheads belonging to Abashevo warriors buried at Pepkino and Algashi mound 12. These artifacts resemble those from the Krotovo burial grounds on the Irtysh (Inberen X, Chernoozerye IV and VI). These contacts clearly date to the Middle Bronze Age (early 2nd millennium BC).

Keywords: Bronze Age, Abashevo culture, Krotovo culture, Chirki settlements, pottery with rolls, serpentine patterns, Seima-Turbino burial grounds.