Research of the Turgai Museum

The museum expedition carried out reconnaissance along the rivers Saryozen, Teke, Kara-Turgai, Kaindy, Zhaksy-Kaindy and lakes Sarykopa and Shoindykol.

Along the Saryozen river, in the points of Taktaikonir 1, Baimurat 1 and 2, collections of flint tools and ceramics are collected. On Taktaikopir 1, scrapers made of flakes and blades, retouched blades, a fragment of a double-sided processed arrowhead, and ceramics were found. Taktaikopir 2 contains a collection of ceramics and animal bones. Ceramics has an admixture of sand in the dough. Vessels had straight and slightly curved necks. The upper part of a bomb-like undecorated vessel with a short, straight neck is reconstructed. An ornament in the form of horizontal rows of incisions and round pits is noted on five fragments. We also examined two burial mounds near the village of Baimurat on the banks of the Saryozen River.

Near the Aksuat pool in the northern part of Lake Sarykopa, flint items were collected at points Sarykopa 1 and 3. Among them are flakes, blades, scrapers from flakes and blades, fragments of double-sided processed arrowheads. There is ceramics at Sarykopa 2. Ornamentation (triangles, rhombuses, vertical and horizontal zigzags) was applied with a smooth and jagged stamp, drawing.

Flint inventory was collected at five points along the river Teke. The most numerous collection was obtained from the Teke 1 site: retouched blades, a low symmetrical trapezium, inlays with a blunt back, chisels, cutters, beveled points. At sites Teke 5 and b, along with flint, pottery of the Avdronovo type was found.

Near Kulik in the valley of the Kara-Turgai river, a mound "with a mustache" 20 m in diameter and 0.7 m high was found. Nearby there is a stone fence with a diameter of 3 m, small fragments of ceramics, ornamented with notches and inscriptions, were collected. Flint implements and several fragments of ceramics were collected 6 km west of the Kaindy state farm on the right bank of the Kara-Turgai River.

Sites with flint inventory were found at seven points along the Kaindy river. The Kaindy 3 site is the richest: the pottery is ornamented with horizontal rows of imprints of a vertically set wide and short toothed stamp. Sometimes a continuous ornamental field is divided into zones by horizontal impressions with smaller teeth. The necks are not distinguished, vertical, the rims are flat. The rim and neck of the inner surface of the vessels are ornamented with jagged impressions. The tools are represented by scrapers from flakes, double-sided processed arrowheads and spears, and large ax and adze-shaped tools.

In the Zhaksy-Kaindy river basin, 8 km upstream of its confluence with the Zhaman-Kaindy river, four sites were found. The peculiarity of their inventory is the presence of many products made of black chert and black flint. There are fragments of large double-faced arrowheads and flake tools with a notched working edge.

On Lake Shoindykol, collections of flint were collected at three points (flakes and plates with retouching, a fragment of a double-sided processed arrowhead, a hoe).