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