Sharapova S.V., Bachura O.P., Grachev M.A., Karapetian M.K., Kiseleva D.V., Kosintsev P.A. et al. Informative Capacity of the Sargat Culture’s Disturbed Burials: Kurgan Novopokrovka 16 in the Middle Irtysh River Basin
Svetlana V. Sharapova, Candidate of Sciences (History), Leading Researcher, Institute of History and Archaeology of the Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, S. Kovalevskaya St, 16, 620108 Ekaterinburg, Russian Federation
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Olga P. Bachura, Candidate of Sciences (Biology), Senior Researcher, Institute of Plant and Animal Ecology of the Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Vos’mogo Marta St, 202, 620144 Ekaterinburg, Russian Federation
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Maxim A. Grachev, Head of the Museum, Omsk State Pedagogical University, Partizanskaya St, 4а, 644099 Omsk, Russian Federation
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Marina K. Karapetian, Candidate of Sciences (Biology), Senior Researcher, Research Institute and Museum of Anthropology, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Mokhovaya St, 11/1, 125009 Moscow, Russian Federation
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Daria V. Kiseleva, Candidate of Sciences (Geology and Mineralogy), Senior Researcher, Institute of Geology and Geochemistry of the Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 15, Academician Vonsovsky St, 620016 Ekaterinburg, Russian Federation; Assistant Professor, Ural Federal University, Mira St, 19, 620002 Ekaterinburg, Russian Federation
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Pavel A. Kosintsev, Candidate of Sciences (Biology), Senior Researcher, Institute of Plant and Animal Ecology of the Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Vos’mogo Marta St, 202, 620144 Ekaterinburg, Russian Federation
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Vladimir M. Kostomarov, Candidate of Sciences (History), Associate Professor, Tyumen State University, Lenina St, 23, 625003 Tyumen, Russian Federation
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Tatyana G. Okuneva, Junior Researcher, Institute of Geology and Geochemistry of the Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Academician Vonsovsky St, 15, 620016 Ekaterinburg Russian Federation
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Evgeny S. Shagalov, Candidate of Sciences (Geology and Mineralogy), Senior Researcher, Institute of Geology and Geochemistry of the Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Ekaterinburg, Russian Federation; Assistant Professor, Ural State Mining University, Kujbysheva St, 30, 620144 Ekaterinburg, Russian Federation
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Artem S. Yakimov, Candidate of Sciences (Geography), Leading Researcher, Earth Cryosphere Institute, Tumen Scientific Centre of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Malygina St, 86, 625026, Tumen, Russian Federation
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Abstract. The article deals with a complex study of the materials obtained during archaeological excavation of the kurgan Novopokrovka 16 in the middle Irtysh river basin (Omsk region). The site, which is attributed to the Sargat culture (5th century BC – second half of the 3rd century AD), was located farmost on the right bank of the river Irtysh, nearby the group of “Princely kurgans”. Despite almost total disturbance by robbers and agricultural activity, common scholars’ efforts demonstrate high informative capacity of the multidisciplinary approach, while modern level of undertaken research is not just being declared but enables to reconstruct seemingly lost information. The kurgan erection stages and mound structure features have been decoded using the results of a geophysical survey and soil morphology data. The paleoanthropological study of the incomplete skeletal remains does not support multiple or inlet interment inside the central grave, and provides sexing and aging of the buried individuals as well as some paleopathological observations. Apart from species examination, archaeozoological data testify that a warm period from spring to early autumn was the season of animal slaughter. Characteristics of mortuary rituals and direction of intercultural contacts of the ancient forest-steppe groups have been completed by new details based on the results of strontium isotope analyses (dental enamel of humans and animals) and evidence non-local origin of the individual buried under the excavated kurgan, what is different from local origin of horses butchered for funereal feasts. The proposed hypothesis supports previously suggested archaeological, paleoanthropological and paleogenetic facts on the origin of the forest-steppe population, indicating an involvement of various population groups with notable external components. Based on the archaeological materials, the kurgan under study might be dated back to mid-4th – 3rd centuries BC.
Key words: West Siberian forest-steppe, Sargat culture, the Early Iron Age, multidisciplinary investigation in archaeology.
Citation. Sharapova S.V., Bachura O.P., Grachev M.A., Karapetian M.K., Kiseleva D.V., Kosintsev P.A., Kostomarov V.M., Okuneva T.G., Shagalov E.S., Yakimov A.S., 2023. Informatsionnyy potentsial razrushennyh pogrebeniy sargatskoy kultury: kurgan Novopokrovka 16 v Srednem Priirtysh’e [Informative Capacity of the Sargat Culture’s Disturbed Burials: Kurgan Novopokrovka 16 in the Middle Irtysh River Basin]. Nizhnevolzhskiy Arkheologicheskiy Vestnik [The Lower Volga Archaeological Bulletin], vol. 22, no. 2, pp. 65-96. DOI: https://doi.org/10.15688/nav.jvolsu.2023.2.4
Informative Capacity of the Sargat Culture’s Disturbed Burials: Kurgan Novopokrovka 16 in the Middle Irtysh River Basin by Sharapova S.V., Bachura O.P., Grachev M.A., Karapetian M.K., Kiseleva D.V., Kosintsev P.A., Kostomarov V.M., Okuneva T.G., Shagalov E.S., Yakimov A.S. is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
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