Lepeshkinsky Complex of Bronzes from Tagar Burial Site Serebryakovo I in the Mariinsk Forest-Steppe: the elemental composition of the metal
https://doi.org/10.21603/2078-8975-2021-23-2-405-414
Abstract
The present article introduces an elemental composition analysis of copper and bronze alloys from the burials of the Lepeshkinsky Stage of the Tagar culture, burial site Serebryakovo I in the Kiya-Chulym interfluve. The research featured mounds 2, 12, and 16, which date back to 3–1 centuries B.C. The metal composition of 72 items was investigated by inductively coupled plasma atomic emission spectroscopy (ICP AES). The obtained data were subjected to statistical processing, which revealed seven chemical-metallurgical and metallurgical groups of copper-based alloys. The bronze alloys did not depend on the typology of the tools, i.e. knives, engravings, mirrors, deer plaques, etc. The results confirmed the dating of the Lepeshkinsky site between the Saragashensky and the Tesinsky Stages of the Tagar culture. The items revealed a tendency towards a decrease in the proportion of tin bronzes and average concentrations of tin ligatures. The study proved that archaeometallurgical data can help to determine the relative-chronological position of the Tagar culture burial complexes.
Keywords
Lepeshkinsky Stage,
copper-bronze inventory,
typology,
elemental composition,
metallurgical group of alloys
Supporting agencies: The research was part of the State Assignment of the Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Russian Federation No. 0286-2021-0011 YGISU AAAA-A21-121012090006-0 "Sociocultural genesis and cross-border interaction of ancient and medieval societies in the contact zones of Western and Central Siberia".
About the Author
A. S. Savelieva
Federal Research Center of Coal and Coal Chemistry, Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Kemerovo
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Savelieva A.S. Lepeshkinsky Complex of Bronzes from Tagar Burial Site Serebryakovo I in the Mariinsk Forest-Steppe: the elemental composition of the metal. The Bulletin of Kemerovo State University. 2021;23(2):405-414. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.21603/2078-8975-2021-23-2-405-414
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