Результаты изучения кургана № 30 скифского времени на памятнике Чинета-II (Алтай)

Abstract

The article presents the results of the study of mound N30 from the Chineta-II burial ground, which is part of the Chineta archaeological district, located in the vicinity of the eponymous village of Chineta in the Krasnoshchekovsky district of the Altai territory. The study emphasizes that in the excavated mound number 30, the deceased was laid in an extended position on his back and oriented with his head to the West. These signs of the funeral rite, despite the fact that they do not belong to the classical ones, nevertheless, are found in the study of monuments of nomads of the Altai mountain regions of the Pazyryk period. At the same time, the combination of these features was found mainly in the area of the lower and middle reaches of the Katun river. It is established that mound № 30 is chronologically related to mound № 31, which was excavated earlier and is quite well dated to the second half of the IV–III centuries BC. From the accompanying inventory, 2 horn subrectangular belt buckles with a rounded upper part and a rectangular base were found in mound № 30. In the process of comparative historical analysis, analogies are given to these artifacts found both in the monuments of the Pazyryk Mountain Altai period and in other regions, including Tuva and Mongolia. Barrow N30 of the Chineta-II burial ground, taking into account the Dating of barrow N31 of the same burial ground and the comparative data given, is tentatively dated to the second half (end) of the IV–III centuries BC. The presence of burials on the Chinetа-II burial ground, made both according to the classical canons of the Pazyryk burial rite, and with deviations from it, testifies to certain ethnocultural processes in the Scythian time in the North-Western Altai.