Demidenko S.V.

Key words: Lower Povolozhye, South Cisurals, North China, late Sarmatian archaeological culture, bronze cauldrons, technology of manufacturing.

The article examines bronze cast cauldrons without coasters of the late Sarmatian archaeological culture of the Lower Povolozhye and the South Cisurals in comparison with similar Xiongnu specimens found on the territory of the South Siberia and North China. The analysis of morphological and technological features confirms that in the first centuries AD there were two independent ways of cauldrons manufacturing in Eurasian steepe. One follows the traditions of Savromats-Sarmatians cast traditions while another is of the North China ones. Considering the group of the late Sarmatian cauldrons of the South Cisurals out of the context of identical specimens from the territory of Lower Povolzhye and the Don region and only in the context of the development of Xiongnu cauldrons of the South Siberia and North China as some of the researches do is unjustified.