New stone sculpture from South Kazakhstan

2018

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DOI 10.26577/jh-2018-1-205
Data confidence 70 medium
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Abstract

The article presents the results of research conducted on the territory of the SKO, where stone sculptures and a bronze dagger were found. These sculptures were accidentally found by local residents in the autamn of 2017. The study provides an opportunity to reconstruct the medieval burial-commemoration ceremony of the Turkic tribes inhabiting the foothills of the Greater Karatau. This area was supposedly a sacred place in the Middle Ages and had semiotic importance.