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Kyrykungir

The Kyrykungir cemetery is located on the left bank of the river Shagan, 350 km west from the Kyrykungir mountain and 2 km north from Toktamis-Batyr village of Abayskij district of West-Kazakhstan region. Arhaeological complex Kyrykungir covers an area of about 3 km2 and includes near 100 objects (kurgans of the Early Iron Age, settlements of the Bronze and Iron Age, kurgans of Turkic times, two muslim cemeteries). 

Collection

Ornamented ceramic vessel

A vessel of a complex shape with an ornament

Ornamented ceramic vessel

Flat-bottomed ornamented vessel of a jar shape

Ceramic vessel (profiled)

A ceramic krinka-like vessel (votive)

Pendant

Fang-like pendant

Socketed arrowhead

An arrowhead (bronze)

Needle case (flute-?)

Ornamented item with a hole made of tubular bone

Celt

A bronze celt with traces of a handle

Bone arrowhead

A shaft arrowhead

Publications

Umitkaliev U. U., Aitbaev A.B., Iskakov K.A., Pedratskiy M. Burial structures of the Bronze Age in the Kyrykungir burial ground // Bronze Age of Kazakhstan: research and new discoveries. Astana: ENU Publishing House, 2018.