Periodization and chronology of the Bronze Age in North Ossetia based on the materials of the kurgans near the village of Dzuarikau
https://doi.org/10.18384/2949-5164-2024-5-97-122
Abstract
Aim. To reconstruct the inventory of the looted burial mounds near the village of Dzuarikau in North Ossetia and to identify the early stage of the Middle Bronze Age in the region.
Methodology. The work uses comparative typological and stratigraphic analyses of mound monuments of the Bronze Age of the North Caucasus.
Results. The end of the Maikop era in North Ossetia is marked by the beginning of the Kuban-Terek culture (KTC), synchronous with the Novosvobodnenskaya culture and related in origin, the same as the Novosvobodnaya dolmen culture with the range of Corded Ceramics cultures in Europe.
Research implications. The connection between the Kuban-Terek culture and the Kura-Araxes culture of Transcaucasia and direct contacts between their carriers has been established. The archaeological data are confirmed linguistically by Indo-European isoglosses in the Kartvelian languages.
About the Authors
N. A. Nikolaeva
Federal State University of Education
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Nadezhda A. Nikolaeva – Cand Sci (History), Prof, Department of General History,
ul. Radio 10A, Moscow 105005
A. V. Safronov
Institute of Oriental Studies Russian Academy of Sciences; Russian Technological University
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Aleksander V. Safronov – Cand Sci (History), Assoc Prof, Senior Researcher,
107031, г. Москва, ул. Рождественка, д. 12;
119454, г. Москва, Проспект Вернадского, д. 78
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