Pages: 225-247 | DOI: https://doi.org/10.55086/sp263225247

The article publishes three new burials from the Koban cultural and historical region (KHR) of the Grushevskoye fortified settlement in Stavropol, which included horn-made pommels of weapons that were also ceremonial staffs. The article also discusses similar finds from the Late Bronze Age and Early Iron Age from the Caucasus and southern Eastern Europe, which help to establish the chronological position of the published complexes.

Keywords: North Caucasus, Koban culture, Late Bronze Age, Early Iron Age, horn pommels, armament, funerary rite

Information about authors:

Sergey Valchak (Moscow, Russian Federation). Candidate of Historical Sciences. Institute of Archaeology of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Dmitry Ulyanov St., 19, Moscow, 117292, Russian Federation
E-mail: [email protected]
ORCID: 0000-0002-9573-5928

Konstantin Krutogolovenko (Krasnodar, Russian Federation). Krasnodar Regional Branch of All-Russian Society for the Protection of Historical and Cultural Monuments. Krasnoarmeiskaya St., 6, Krasnodar, 350063, Russian Federation
E-mail: cost-85@ mail.ru
ORCID: 0009-0008-0712-4774

Evgenii Kudriavtsev (Stavropol, Russian Federation). North Caucasian Federal University. Pushkin St., 1, Stavropol, 355009, Russian Federation
E-mail: stavr-68@ mail.ru
ORCID: 0009-0000-1960-3205