Kurinskikh O.I.

Key words: early nomads, burial complexes, blade weapons, relative chronology.
The article covers the blade weapons from the 6th – 1st cc. burials at Pokrovka on the left bank of the Ilek in the Southern Urals. The author offers a typology of the artifacts based on traditional principles of classification. All the combinations of the types of weapons in the assemblages have been analyzed; the types have been grouped chronologically on the basis of analyzing quiver assemblages. The article dates the assemblages which include blade weapons and rectifies the dating for the assemblages in which arrowheads have been found along with swords and daggers. The results of the research show the trends in the development of blade weapons in early nomad populations in the region