Research in the Northeast Caspian

The Volga-Ural expedition of the Institute of Archeology of the USSR Academy of Sciences continued research in the Mangyshlak and Guryev regions.

On the northwestern outskirts of the Shevchenko, Mangyshlak region, a barrow was unearthed, which contained a stone burial chamber, a human skeleton, and a molded vessel crouched on its right side with the skull facing southeast. The burial dates back to the 9th-8th centuries BC. Near the Shevchenko, a nomad's site of the 12th century was excavated, where a stone laying of a yurt, household pits, and hearths were discovered, fragments of talc vessels of Khorezm production and stucco ceramics of the Oguz appearance were found. On the eastern outskirts of the ancient settlement of Kyzylkala in the Mangystau district, near the tract Aktobe, the mausoleum XII (9x8 m) with nine burials was cleared. A burial mound with a riprap was discovered 1 km west of the settlement, which was robbed. Belt plaques of the Alanian type allow date it to the 5th-7th centuries. One non-inventory soil burial was excavated 50 m to the northwest and 500 m west Kyzylkala. The second burial belongs to the burial ground of the 12th century. A cave with a 1.8 m thick cultural layer was studied on the southern coast of Kochak Bay. Unfortunately, it has not yet been possible to determine the dating of the monument.

Exploration on the Mangyshlak and Buzachi peninsulas revealed a number of new monuments of different times. In the north of the Tyub-Karachai peninsula, ​​rock shelters with rock carvings from different eras have been recorded. In the Guryev region, in the Byuryuk and Toysaigan sands, abundant uplift material of the Neolithic, Bronze, Early Iron and Middle Ages have been collected.