Intel medieval burial from the kurgan № 4 of Kichigino burial complex

Authors

  • Ivan Valer'evich Grudochko Author
  • Alexander Dmitrievich Tairov Author

Abstract

Kichigino I is a necropolis of the early Iron Age nomads. Inlet medieval burial
was found in the mound center of kurgan № 4. Buried lay stretched on his back,
head to the southwest. Near the buried’s foots was found items of harness. Among
them, egg-shaped stirrup with arched footboard, which met analogy in the monuments
of the Southern Urals steppes, steppes and Volga-Urals and Irtysh. Stirrup
dated X—XI century A. D., including on base of coins finds in other complexes. The
funeral rite is similar to the types of Sineglazovo and late Karanaevo etc., which
belongs to nomadic population of Kimak-Qypchaq circle.

Author Biographies

  • Ivan Valer'evich Grudochko

    junior research fellow of Eurasian Studies
    Research Center (Chelyabinsk). Research interests: material culture and archaeological sites of medieval nomads in Ural-Kazakhstan steppes

  • Alexander Dmitrievich Tairov

    is the headmaster of Eurasian Studies Research Center
    (Chelyabinsk), Dr. Sc. (History). He is the author works including in the sphere of archeology
    and ancient history of steppe Eurasia and geoarcheology.

Issue

Vol. 14 No. 1 (2014)

Section

Historical Sciences