Pages: 55-68 | DOI: https://doi.org/10.55086/sp2335568

The author analyzes sources from the inlet child burial in Mound 1 of the Shatmantamak I burial ground. It is located in the northern steppe of the Southern Urals (today’s Miyakinsky District of Bashkortostan, Russia), within Bugulminskaya-Belebeevskaya Upland. It is shown that this burial belongs to the earlier stage of the Early Iron Age (late 9 ^th—8 ^th centuries BC). It was the time when a bright and recognizable “nomadic complex” was spreading across the Eurasian steppe from east to west. This one and closely related burials used to be previously regarded as part of the transitional period from the Bronze Age to the Early Iron Age. The early nomadic epoch in the Southern Urals is also marked by finds of Karasuk bronze daggers and knives.

Keywords: Southern Urals, children’s burials, early Iron Age, burial rites

Information about author:

Nikita Savelev (Ufa, Russian Federation). Candidate of Historical Sciences. Institute of History, Language and Literature, Ufa Federal Research Center of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Oktyabr Ave., 71, Ufa, 450054, Republic of Bashkortostan, Russian Federation
E-mail: [email protected]
ORCID: 0000-0002-3643-2388