Медно-бронзовые котлы скифского времени из Кузнецкой котловины и Мариинской лесостепи

Abstract

The paper focuses on the research of the bronze cauldrons and miniature bronze vessels found in graves or accidentally in Mariinsk forest-steppe and Kuznetsk Basin at different times. It contains typological and morphological descriptions, images, information about the conditions and the authors of the findings, the results of mapping and elemental analysis. The most of the accidentally found cauldrons are associated with the places of worship. The objects of this category are considered as markers of the interaction between two large centers of culture development in the Ob and Yenissei Basin in the Scythian Epoch. The analysis of the metal showed that almost all of the cauldrons are made of copper or arsenical bronze. To repair cauldrons, in contrast, tin bronze was used. The typological-morphological features and elemental composition indicate the origin of the studied samples from the Minusinsk center of cauldrons production allocated by N. Bokovenko. The analyzed samples are kept in the SHM (3 ex.), TSU Museum (6 ex.), Museum “Archaeology, Ethnography and Ecology of Siberia of KemSU” (9 ex.), Kemerovo Region Local History Museum (2 ex.), Museum-preserve Tomskaya Pisanitsa (1 ex.).