Abstract
In Altai, in the Chekanovsky Log-X burial place, adornments made of “white metal” (earrings and beads) were found in several burials. The closest analogues to beads are known at the steppe type sites of Middle Asia, where 300-1200 things were found in several burials. According to the results of spectral analysis, the Middle-Asian beads consisted of copper with a high content of tin or a complex alloy, the basis of which was tin, which gave the things a silvery color. The author suggests that such beads among the population of Middle Asia were a substitute for a more expensive and rare metal - silver, and not the beads themselves were valued, but the clothes skillfully embroidered with them. Finds of silvery beads and earrings in the Chekanovsky Log-X burial place confirm the author's earlier opinion that the appearance of Andronovo sites in Altai occurs under the influence of migration impulses of Andronovo population from the southern regions.
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