Papers by Svyatko Svetlana
This paper discusses the chronology of burial grounds containing specific Seima-Turbino type bron... more This paper discusses the chronology of burial grounds containing specific Seima-Turbino type bronze 11 weaponry (spears, knives, and celts). The " transcultural " Seima-Turbino phenomenon relates to a wide distribution 12 of specific objects found within the sites of different Bronze Age cultures in Eurasia, not immediately related to each 13 other. The majority of the Seima-Turbino objects represent occasional findings, and they are rarely recovered from 14 burial grounds. Here, we present a new set of 14 C dates from cemeteries in western Siberia, including the key Asian 15 site Rostovka, with the largest number of graves containing Seima-Turbino objects. Currently, the presented database 16 is the most extensive for the Seima-Turbino complexes. The resulting radiocarbon (14 C) chronology for the western 17 Siberian sites (22nd–20th centuries cal BC) is older than the existing chronology based on typological analysis 18 (16th–15th centuries BC) and some earlier 14 C dates for the Seima-Turbino sites in eastern Europe. Another impor-19 tant aspect of this work is 14 C dating of complexes within specific bronze objects—daggers with figured handles— 20 which some researchers have related to the Seima-Turbino type objects. These items are mostly represented by 21 occasional finds in Central Asia, however, in western Siberia these have been recovered from burials, too. The 22 14 C dating attributes these daggers to the end of the 3rd millennium cal BC, suggesting their similar timing to the 23 Seima-Turbino objects. Further research into freshwater reservoir offsets in the region is essential for a more reliable 24 reconstruction of the chronology of the Seima-Turbino phenomenon and the daggers with figured handles. 25
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