Коллекция предметов вооружения сакского времени из могильников Молалы и Шубарат

Abstract

In 1985-1986, during the archaeological investigation of the Molaly I and Shubarat burials in Semirechie, a number of items of armaments and military equipment of the Saka period were received: an iron combat hatchet and a dagger, bone arrowheads, bronze belt buckles and a quiver hook. All these items belong to the late Saka time (the second half of the VIth – the first half of the IInd centuries BC). They have analogies in synchronous nomadic cultures of Central Asia and also in cultures of the Scythian type of the Sayano-Altai region. This shows that the armament complex of ancient population in the Tien Shan region in the 1st millennium BC developed under the close cultural contacts with the territories of Altai, Tuva and Western Mongolia. It is interesting, that general part of the weapons and military equipment was found in mound No.21 of the Molaly burial site. These are a dagger, four bone arrowheads and a quiver hook. This marks the full standard set of weapons of local Saka warriors, equally convenient for conducting both remote and close-in fighting.