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New Finds of Metal Tools of the Late Bronze Age in the Upper Tobol Region

Usmanova E.R. (Karaganda, Kazakhstan), Merts I.V. (Barnaul, Russian Federation), Merts V.K. (Pavlodar, Kazakhstan), Erzhanova A.E. (Almaty, Kazakhstan), Fomin V.N. (Karaganda, Kazakhstan)

UDC 902.01

DOI: https://doi.org/10.24852/pa2024.3.49.114.127

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The article presents an analysis of two accidental finds in the area of the villages of Novoilyinovka and Alchanovka (Kostanay oblast, Kazakhstan). The “Alchanovka” sickle belongs to the products of the Sosnovo-Mazino type, but differs by its zigzag ornament. The high iron content indicates the use of copper-pyrite ores as the raw material dating the sickle to the 14th–13th centuries BC and associate it with the Sargary-Alekseyevka culture. The “Novoilyinovka” celt is decorated on both sides by hanging triangles with ends in the form of “pearls”. By its morphological features, it is close to the products of the Maklasheyevka culture and Novoaleksandrovo groups of metal artifacts of the Late Bronze Age of Eastern Europe. Based on the chemical composition of the metal, it belongs to the Maklasheyevka culture of the Volga-Kama region, and possibly dates back to the 13^th–12^th centuries BC. Most likely, the “Novoilyinovka” celt is an import from the Volga-Kama region. The “Alchanovo” sickle and the “Novoilyinovka” celt reflect two stages within the period between the end of the Late Bronze Age-3 phase and the beginning of the Late Bronze Age-4 phase of the development of the West Asian (Eurasian) metallurgical province of Western Siberia.

Keywords

archaeologyVolga-Kama regionforest-steppe zone of Western SiberiaLate Bronze Agesickle of the Sosnovo-Mazino typecelt with a front loopMaklasheyevka cultureSargary-Alekseyevka culture

About the author(s)

Usmanova Emma R. Saryarka Archaeological Institute of Karaganda Buketov University, Universitetskya 28, Karaganda, 100024, Kazakhstan; Institute of Archeology named after A. Kh. Margulan, Dostyk Ave., 44, Shevchenko Str., 28, Almaty, 050010, Republic of Kazakhstan; Institute of Archaeology named after A. Kh. Khalikov, Tatarstan Academy of Sciences. Butlerov St., 30, Kazan, 420012, Republic of Tatarstan, Russian Federation; emmadervish2004@mail.ru

Merts Ilya V. Candidate of Historical Sciences. Altai State University, Lenin Ave. 61, Barnaul, 656049, Russia; Ph.D. of Historical Sciences. Joint Research Center for Archeological Studies named after A.Kh. Margulan, Toraighyrov university, Lomov street 64, Pavlodar, 140008, Republic of Kazakhstan; barnaulkz@mail.ru

Merts Viktor K. , Candidate of Historical Sciences. Director. Center for Archaeological Research of Toraigyrov University, Lomava str. 64, Pavlodar, 140008, Republic of Kazakhstan; v_merz@mail.ru

Yerzhanova Albina E. PhD. Institute of Archeology named after A. Kh. Margulan, Dostyk Ave., 44, Shevchenko Str., 28, Almaty, 050010, Republic of Kazakhstan; erjanova_a@mail.ru

Fomin Vitaliy N. Candidate of Сhemical Sciences. Karaganda Buketov University, Head of the Laboratory. Universitetskya 28, Karaganda, 100024, Republic of Kazakhstan; vitfomin@mail.ru