RESULTS OF THE STUDY OF KURGAN NO. 29 OF THE SCYTHIAN-SAKA PERIOD AT THE CHINETA-II BURIAL GROUND (ALTAI)

The article presents the results of the study of kurgan No. 29 of the Chineta-II burial ground, located on the left bank of the Inya river (Krasnoshchekovsky district of the Altai Territory). A paired burial of men with an accompanying burial of horses was found in the kurgan. An analysis of the accompanying inventory was carried out, among which an iron combat dagger in a wooden sheath is of particular interest. On the basis of a comparative historical analysis of the artifacts and the funeral rite, kurgan No. 29 of the Chineta-II burial ground is tentatively dated to the second half of the 4th-3rd centuries BC. The presence of an iron dagger, which has certain analogies in the Kamenskaya and Bystryanskaya cultures, along with the peculiarities of the funeral rite (the elongated position of the deceased, etc.), may reflect the process of intercultural interaction of nomads in the mountainous, foothill and forest-steppe regions in the Scythian-Saka era