Vitaliy V. Tkachev

Orenburg Federal Research Center, the Ural Branch of RAS, Russia

E-mail: vit-tkachev@yandex.ru

Keywords: the Late Bronze Age, the steppe Cis-Urals, the Sintashta culture, radiocarbon dating.

The article considers the issue of calendar chronology of the Cis-Ural group of Sintashta culture sites at the turn of the Middle and Late Bronze Ages. The author presents the results of radiocarbon dating of burials from the Sintashta cemetery near Mount Berezovaya (Bulanovo) and Tanabergen II in the steppe Cis-Urals. The series consists of 10 calibrated radiocarbon dates, three of which were obtained using AMS accelerated technology. As a result of the implementation of statistical procedures, a chronological interval for the functioning of necropolises was established within the 2200–1770s BC. On the whole, a relative synchronism of the Sintashta culture sites on both sides of the Ural ridge and culturally similar sites of the Potapovo type in the Middle Volga region can be stated. Various evidence of contacts with the carriers of the Seima-Turbino metallurgical traditions present in the Sintashta funerary complexes of the steppe Cis-Urals is in good agreement with new data on their radiocarbon age.

DOI: 10.31857/S086960630009071-7