Tyragetia (Dec 2019)
Медный котел с поселения Кривинка 1 / Copper vessel from from Krivinka 1 settlement
Abstract
The article is devoted to the new find of a metal vessel, discovered together with pottery and other unusual tools at the Late Bronze Age settlement of Krivinka 1, located on the right bank of the Irtysh by the eponymous village in the East Kazakhstan Oblast of the Republic of Kazakhstan. The material culture of the Bronze Age of Kazakhstan is usually represented with a standard assemblage of artifacts, where metal vessels until recently have been almost not known. However, in the last decade there has appeared a number of examples of metal ware from closed complexes and random finds, demonstrating that the early population of Kazakhstan had broadly used them too starting from the Early Andronovo Period. A graphic reconstruction allows representing the vessel as a small bucket. The metal analysis shows that the vessel was made of a copper sheet. This artifact, as well as some other finds and sites explored in the recent years at the territory of Kazakhstan change the idea of the material culture of the Bronze Age tribes of Kazakhstan and open a new stage in their research.
