Open AccessExcavation at the Visyachiy Kamen-2 burial ground
Author(s) -
P.I. Shulga,
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Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
polevye issledovaniâ v verhnem priobʹe, priirtyšʹe i na altae (arheologiâ, ètnografiâ, ustnaâ istoriâ i muzeevedenie)
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2687-0584
DOI - 10.37386/2687-0584-2021-16-169-174
Subject(s) - excavation , archaeology , ancient history , geography , geology , history
In 2008 near the village of Novofirsovo (Kurinsky District, Altai Territory), two burial mounds (No 2, No 3) were accidentally excavated. Kurgan No. 2 was robbed in antiquity; the inventory was absent. However, the features of the funeral rite indicate that it was made near 7th-6th cent. BC. «Long» mound No 3 (15 m long and 47 m wide), was formed during the confluence of small mounds (made of stone and soil), and contained seven graves. Kurgan belongs to a rare type of Middle Ages burial structures, possibly of the Turkic time.