Excavations of catacomb burials Tulebaitobe III urial ground
The expedition of the archaeological detachment of the South Kazakhstan Pedagogical University, the Central State Museum of the Republic of Kazakhstan with the participation of employees of the Turkestan Regional Museum of Local Lore and with the support of the Baiterek-Keldibek Public Foundation continued in 2021 the study of the Tulebaytobe III burial ground near the village of Karaspan (Ordabasy district, Turkestan region). During the excavation of catacomb burials 6 and 7, a set of artifacts was obtained, including tableware, weapons (iron arrowheads), household items (iron knives), jewelry (inlaid hand bracelets made of beads, cowrie shells and pendants in the form of a hand, clenced into a fist, of amber). They also found cosmetic devices ( stone antimony and a coloring base in the form of graphitr), bronze earrings and rings, and other artifacts that are associated with the state of Kangju and the Asian Sarmatians by their ethno- cultural parameters. in a chronological context, analogies allow us to attribute archaeological materials from the catacomb burials of the Tulabaitobe III burial ground to the time od the 1st century BC – 3rd century AD.