Stone tools from Sorkuduk settlement

To the north of Zhezkazgan, a wide valley of Sorkuduk sai runs in the meridional direction. During the study of it by N.V. Valukinsky and A.V. Kuznetsov in 1945, 1.5 km north of the settlement of Taskuduk, the Sorkuduk tract was discovered. In the cultural layer of the settlement, an extensive series of well-processed stone tools used for crushing ore, fragments of a crucible, piles of oxidized ore, a shovel of a large animal used as a shovel for raking industrial waste were revealed; a huge amount of flint inventory ‑ scrapers, arrowheads and spears, nucleuses, incisors, punctures, saws, etc. The composition of the inventory leaves no doubt that the cultural layer of Sorkuduk almost entirely belongs to the Bronze Age. As a result of the survey of the monument, ceramic, bone and stone artifacts related to mining were collected. This is evidenced by the finds of stone tools specially made for crushing and grinding, enrichment of copper ore.