Teleutsky Vzvoz-I – a Barrow Group of the Golden Horde Period in the South of Western Siberia (Results of Interdisciplinary Research)

Abstract

The Teleutsky Vzvoz-I barrow group is located in the Pavlovsky district of the Altai Territory. It was investigated by the expeditions of Altai State University for several field seasons. As a result, 14 burial mounds have been excavated. Despite the fact that the burials were robbed, a significant amount of archaeological materials of the Golden Horde time has been obtained. The beginning of an interdisciplinary study of the finds was the X-ray fluorescence analysis of a fragment of a metal mirror, full analogies of which are given in the paper. The use of microscopic methods was aimed at studying the detected tissue fragment, the restoration of which was carried out in the Grabar Art Conservation Scientific and Restoration Center (Moscow). Of particular importance are the numerous details of birch bark frames from the headgear of married Mongolian women (bokka, bogtag). It was possible to carry out the restoration of the complete set. This allows not only reliably reconstructing the appearance of the finished product, but also identifying other similar finds from the Teleutsky Vzvoz-I site and other complexes of Western Siberia. The anthropological definitions of the craniological collection and the first result of AMS dating became important.

Keywords

• archaeological finds
• south of western siberia
• the golden horde time
• teleutsky vzvoz-i
• interdisciplinary studies
• x-ray fluorescence analysis
• microscopic methods
• restoration
• anthropological determinations
• ams dating