Research of the Kostanay Museum

The expedition of the Kostanay Museum continued to explore the burial ground of the Bronze Age, 4 km northwest of the Evgenievka village, Taranov district, Kostanay region. The burial ground is located on a sandy hill between lakes Baldan and Uglovoe. As a result of the erosion of the soil layer on the top of the hill, a saucer-shaped pit (160 X 200 m) 1.5 m deep was formed. In the northern half of the pit, the remains of inventory from destroyed graves were collected at the bottom, including many fragments of ceramics and some bronze handicrafts. The outlines of five burial pits, rectangular in plan (1.2–1.5 X 1.8–2.8 m), up to 0.6 m deep, oriented along the north-south, west-east line, were recorded. Remains of wooden wall cladding are noted. In grave 4, it was possible to trace the western orientation of the buried. At the head were two pots with geometric designs. One of them is fastened with bronze clips in three places. More than 300 bow beads, several bronze objects were also found here: threads, earrings, a piercer, a grooved gilded bracelet with ends bent into a spiral, and the remains of a ring twisted from round wire in two turns with spiral ends. The inventory and burial rites make it possible to attribute the Evgeniev burial ground to the circle of monuments of the Alakul culture.