Pages: 309-333
The article presents some preliminary results of a comprehensive study of a unique archaeological site of the Golden Horde time — a single burial mound Svetloe Pole III, excavated in the Samara region in 2020. In the only burial, despite the destruction, extraordinary objects have been preserved: a massive (gilded) bronze belt overlay with the image of a dragon, a horn pommel depicting a bird of prey gnawing at a large bird — possibly a bustard; gold earrings and stripes into clothes, coins, iron arrowheads (some of them gilded), etc. The sub-kurgan area was surrounded by a wooden ring structure 15 m in diameter, on the eastern side of which there was a sacrificial complex with 14 skulls of horses without lower jaws. The anthropological study showed that the buried man, 50—60 years old, of the Mongoloid anthropological type, had numerous pathologies. Interesting paleozoological observations were made when analyzing bone remains of the animals found not only on the sacrificial site, but also in the filling of the mound.
Keywords: Middle Volga region, Golden Horde, burial mound, burial rite, paleoanthropology, paleozoology, chronology, sacrificial complex
Information about authors:
Dmitriy Stashenkov (Samara, Russian Federation). Candidate of Historical Sciences. Samara Museum for History and Regional Studies named after P. V. Alabin. Leninskaya St., 142, Samara, 443041, Russian Federation.
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Anna Kochkina (Samara, Russian Federation). Samara Museum for History and Regional Studies named after P. V. Alabin. Leninskaya St., 142, Samara, 443041, Russian Federation.
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Mikhail Turetskiy (Samara, Russian Federation). Candidate of Historical Sciences. Samara State University of Social Sciences and Education. M. Gorky St., 65/67, Samara, 443099, Russian Federation.
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Ilgizar Gazimzyanov (Kazan, Russian Federation). Candidate of Historical Sciences. Kazan (Volga Region) Federal University. Kremlyovskaya St., 18, Kazan, 420008, Republic of Tatarstan, Russian Federation.
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Viatcheslav Gasilin (Yekaterinburg, Russian Federation). Candidate of Biological Sciences. Institute for Ecology of Plants and Animals, Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences. 8th March St., 202, Yekaterinburg, 620144, Russian Federation.
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Alexander Khokhlov (Samara, Russian Federation). Doctor of Historical Sciences. Samara State University of Social Sciences and Education. M. Gorky St., 65/67, Samara, 443099, Russian Federation.
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