Pages: 31-46 | DOI: https://doi.org/10.55086/sp2653146
This article examines materials from a representative burial excavated at the Gorny-10 necropolis in the Krasnogorsk district of Altai Krai. The burial is currently the largest studied early medieval site in southern Western Siberia. It contained an elderly man and impressive grave goods, including an original composite belt, weapons, equipment, and jewelry. Analysis of the finds dates the burial from the second half of the 6th century to the third quarter of the 7th century AD and assigns it to a poorly studied period in the history of the tribes of southern Western Siberia, i. e. the era of the First Turkic Khaganate. The findings establish that Central Asian nomadic traditions significantly influenced the formation of the material culture of the population of the Altai Mountains’ northern foothills. They also support the conclusion that, during his lifetime, the elderly man held a fairly high position in the social hierarchy of the local group under study.
Keywords: necropolis, Western Siberia, chronology, finds
Information about authors:
Nikolai Seregin (Barnaul, Russian Federation). Doctor of Historical Sciences. Altai State University. Lenin Ave., 61, Barnaul, 656049, Russian Federation
E-mail: [email protected]
ORCID: 0000-0002-8051-7127
Sergei Matrenin (Barnaul, Russian Federation). Candidate of Historical Sciences. Altai State University. Lenin Ave., 61, Barnaul, 656049, Russian Federation
ORCID: 0000-0001-7752-2470
Nadezhda Stepanova (Novosibirsk, Russian Federation). Candidate of Historical Sciences. Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography, Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Akademik Lavrentiev Ave., 17, Novosibirsk, 630090, Russian Federation
E-mail: [email protected]
ORCID: 0000-0003-4017-5641