Pages: 101-119

The author examines items ornamented in Scythian-Siberian anymal style, which were found in cemeteries, located in the delta of the Syr-Darya and Amu-Darya, dated by late 8th — 5th centuries BC. Cemeteries Uygarak and North Tagisken were excavated in the Lower Syr Darya littoral. Cemetery Sakar-Chaga were investigated in Trans-Sarykamysh delta of Amu-Darya. They belong to the general culture of the Saka type, but represent local ethnogenesis and chronological specificity that, in particular, is reflected in the subjects of the animal style.

Keywords: Aral region, Early Saka culture, animal style, chronology, local specificity.

Information about author:

Leonid Yablonsky (Moscow, Russian Federation). Doctor of Historical Sciences. Institute of Archaeology of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Dmitry Ulyanov St., 19, Moscow, 117036 , Russian Federation
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