A Funerary Complex of the Sintashta Age at Maloyuldashevo I, Western Orenburg Region

A Funerary Complex of the Sintashta Age at Maloyuldashevo I, Western Orenburg Region

N.L. Morgunova, A.A. Evgenyev, and L.V. Kuptsova.

A collective burial of three persons excavated at Maloyuldashevo I, southern Urals, and dating to the Sintashta period, is described. Both the funerary rite and burial goods evidence an admixture of various contemporaneous traditions such as Sintashta, Potapovka, and Abashevo, as well as earlier traditions of the Volga-Ural region.

Keywords: Late Bronze Age, southern Urals, Sintashta, burials.