Abstract

The article considers the result of the Shelomok I Burial mound excavations conducted in 2017-2019. Initially, the burial ground was considered to be a kurgan, however, in the western periphery of the burial ground, eight ground burials were investigated, made according to the rite of inhumation, stretched out on the back. The orientation of the buried has a stable direction to the southwest and west. Despite the fact that most of the burials were robbed, a significant number of finds were found, including a large amount of paleofaunal material. According to the totality of artifacts found, including ceramics, weapons, bone items, bronze items made in the Scythian-Siberian animal style and horse harness items, the burial mound Shelomok-I is tentatively dated to the turn of the 5th / 4th-3rd centuries BC.

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