ON THE ERRONEOUS INTERPRETATION OF THE ORIGIN AND TIME OF THE APPEARANCE OF THE CATACOMB TYPE OF BURIAL IN THE BRONZE AGE IN CENTRAL ASIA

2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (10) ◽  
pp. 4-12
Author(s):  
Akhmadali Askarov ◽  
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Behzod I. Isabekov ◽  
Ubaydulla M. Ismoilov ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Central Asia ◽  
Bronze Age ◽  
Internal Structure ◽  
Critical Approach ◽  
Candidate Dissertation ◽  
Burial Grounds ◽  
Soviet Historiography ◽  
Erroneous Interpretation ◽  
The Bronze Age ◽  
Burial Rite

This article examines the origin of ancient catacomb-type graves, about its erroneous use at one time in relation to the graves of the Zamanbaba culture based on the historiography of Soviet archeology. At one time, V.A. Gorodtsov also mistakenly called the undercut graves catacomb, as evidenced by his graphic drawings. Our further studies of real catacomb graves on the territory of the Akhangaron Valley showed what a catacomb-type grave is, its internal structure and the time of its appearance in Central Asia. Unfortunately, Russian colleagues-archaeologists, without delving into the internal structure of catacomb-type graves, repeat the terminological errors of Soviet historiography, as evidenced by the candidate dissertation of Yu.G. Kutimova “The origin and ways of spreading the catacomb burial rite in Central Asia (based on the materials of the burial grounds of the Bronze Age) to which the authors' self-critical approach to determining the time of the appearance of the catacomb device of graves is devoted, also criticizes Russian colleagues in the interpretation and interpretation of archaeological sources of Central Asia in the Soviet conservatism historiography

scholarly journals Sintashta as a Cultural and Historical Phenomenon of the Bronze Age

2021 ◽  
Vol 33 (3) ◽  
pp. 43-67
Author(s):  
Kukushkin I. ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Middle East ◽  
Central Asia ◽  
Bronze Age ◽  
Steppe Zone ◽  
Asia Minor ◽  
The South ◽  
Wide Strip ◽  
Historical Phenomenon ◽  
Burial Grounds ◽  
The Bronze Age

The Sintashta culture is the most controversial ethno-cultural formation of the Bronze Age, formed in the Ural-Kazakhstan steppes. It appears suddenly and is located on the territory of the Southern Trans-Urals. Fortified settlements and burial grounds of this culture spread in a wide strip along the eastern slopes of the Ural Range. The specificity of fortified urban-type settlements, uncharacteristic for the steppe zone of Eurasia, allowed researchers to conclude that they were imported from other regions where they had been originally developed and canonized. In this regard, the most probable is the gradual migration of the population from the territory of Asia Minor, the architectural and planning standards of which demonstrate features of detailed similarity. The alleged migration took place through the Trans-Asian corridor connecting the Middle East and Central Asia to South Kazakhstan, from where paramilitary groups appear in the South Trans-Urals and create the Sintashta culture. Fortified settlements are accompanied by the appearance of burials with chariot attributes, presented in the form of an already established complex of objects and technologies. In archaeological sources, the chariot complex is represented by the remains of chariots, skeletons of draft horses, cheekpieces, as well as weapons of distance and close combat. In the steppes of Eurasia, the war chariot becomes the most formidable and powerful weapon of the Bronze Age. Keywords: Sintashta, migration, chariot, Southern Trans-Urals, Middle East

The Baigetuobie cemetery: New discovery and human genetic features of Andronovo community’s diffusion to the Eastern Tianshan Mountains (1800–1500 BC)

The Holocene ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 095968362097026
Author(s):  
Jiangsong Zhu ◽  
Jian Ma ◽  
Fan Zhang ◽  
Yinqiu Cui ◽  
Marcella Festa ◽  
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Keyword(s):  
Central Asia ◽  
Bronze Age ◽  
Tianshan Mountains ◽  
Cultural Interaction ◽  
Eastern Tianshan ◽  
Genetic Features ◽  
Funeral Rituals ◽  
Short Time ◽  
The Bronze Age ◽  
New Discovery

Andronovo has been regarded as one of the most powerful cultures in Central Asia, which reflected frequent cultural interflow, people migration, and technique diffusion on the Bronze Age Eurasian steppes. In the past decade, many new discoveries in Xinjiang, such as Adunqiaolu and Jartai, have drawn broad attention to the communication of the Andronovo culture in the central Tianshan Mountains. However, systematic study is still insufficient on the communication and influence of the Andronovo culture or the “Andronovo phenomenon” along the Tianshan Mountains. Based on our comprehensive investigation of tomb structure, funeral rituals and assemblages, this article reclassifies relevant Andronovo remains in Xinjiang into five categories. Two categories represented by the Xiabandi cemetery and the Adunqiaolu show clear resemblance to those at Semirech’ye in all aspects, which indicated people in these regions may have maintained close and consistent interaction. Other three categories in the Kuokesuxi and Tangbalesayi cemetery have different tomb structures and funeral rituals from those typical discoveries of the Andronovo cultures in Central Asia in spite of the their similarity in pottery and bronze ornaments, which can be considered as the result of product exchange or technical communication, rather than population migration. New discovery of the Baigetuobie cemetery with evidence of tomb structure, dating, and human genetic features in the Balikun grassland suggested that there might be a small group of people, probably came from the central Tianshan Mountains or Semirech’ye or further west, had migrated to the Eastern Tianshan Mountains about 1600 BC, which was likely facilitated by the relatively warm and humid environment. They had preserved their traditional tomb architecture and were not active in cultural interaction and population fusion with people of Hami Oasis in the south. Due to some reason unknown, people of Baigetuobie had faded away from Balikun grassland after a short time.

The Bronze Age khanates of Central Asia

Antiquity ◽  
1994 ◽  
Vol 68 (259) ◽  
pp. 398-405 ◽  
Author(s):  
C. C. Lamberg-Karlovsky
Keyword(s):  
Central Asia ◽  
Bronze Age ◽  
The Bronze Age

Origins of the Bronze Age Civilization in Central Asia

1996 ◽  
Vol 100 (1) ◽  
pp. 182
Author(s):  
Charles C. Kolb ◽  
Fredrik Talmage Hiebert
Keyword(s):  
Central Asia ◽  
Bronze Age ◽  
The Bronze Age

FUNERAL CEREMONIES AMONG THE LIVESTOCK TRIBES AND THEIR CHARACTERISTICS

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
pp. 104-108
Author(s):  
Safarali Kushakov ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Central Asia ◽  
Bronze Age ◽  
Cattle Breeding ◽  
Human Burials ◽  
The Bronze Age

In this article, we can learn about one of the greatest features of the tradition of human burials in the southern and bordering regions of Uzbekistan, and about its features in the monuments of the Bronze Age cattle-breeding tribes of Northern Bactria.At the same time, the emergence of early urban states in Central Asia, especially in ancient Bactria and Margiana, was considered

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