Dagger from the late bronze age settlement on the lyuskus river

Abstract

The study provides a typological analysis of a dagger found at a Late Bronze Age settlement in Southern Siberia. The dagger has analogues among the same type of weaponry from Southeastern Europe (the Hetin Treasure and incidental fi nds). A sample from the burial of Kovacici-Vinogradi enables daggers of this type to be attributed to the Gava culture. It is suggested that this type of dagger is not typical of Southeastern Europe and that the origin of the artifact is related to the cultural genesis of the Bronze Age Black Sea region. The author proposes a hypothesis for the dagger's origin based on the fact of transit exchange between the population of Europe and the population of Southern Siberia in the Late Bronze Age.