The end of the Kuban-Terek culture in the foothills of the North Caucasus (based on the materials of the mounds near the village of Khaznidon in North Ossetia).
https://doi.org/10.18384/2949-5164-2023-5-93-110
Abstract
Aim. To introduce the chronology of the last stage of the Middle Bronze Age of the North Caucasus (the Kuban-Terek culture).
Methodology. A description of the burial complexes of the Kuban-Terek culture and their stratigraphic position in the Bronze Age mounds near the village of Khaznidon of North Ossetia is given. For the first time, a complete complex with multi-hammer pins (ceramics + jewelry) was outlined and their ethnocultural attribution was determined.
Results. Evidence of the coexistence between the Kuban-Terek culture and the Catacomb culture in one microregion of Chikola-Khaznidon in North Ossetia was obtained based on the data from both horizontal and vertical stratigraphy in the monuments of these cultures. Contacts between the Kuban-Terek and Catacomb cultures were confirmed in the form of a change in the shape of the grave (from pit to catacomb) while preserving the inventory of the Kuban-Terek/North Caucasian culture at all stages of the Catacomb culture in North Ossetia. For the first time, the ceramic complexes with multi-hammer-shaped pins of the final period of the Kuban-Terek culture are presented, and their ethnocultural attribution is are interpreted as tan Indo-Aryan component in the “Аncient European” Kuban-Terek culture.
Research implications. New data have been obtained for the reconstruction of ethnocultural processes in the North Caucasus in the Middle Bronze Age.
About the Authors
N. А. Nikolaeva
State University of Education
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Nadezhda A. Nikolaeva – Cand. Sci. (History), Prof., Department of General History
ul. Very Voloshinoi, Mytishchi 141014, Moscow Region
A. V. Safronov
Institute of Oriental Studies of Russian Academy of Sciences; MIREA – Russian Technological University
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Aleksander V. Safronov – Cand. Sci. (History), Assoc. Prof., Senior Researcher
ul. Rozhdestvenka 12, Moscow107031
Prospect Vernadskogo 78, Moscow 119454
N. S. Chizh
Institute of Oriental Studies of Russian Academy of Sciences
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Nikita S. Chizh – Postgraduate student
Prospect Vernadskogo 78, Moscow 119454
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