Research of Mamaev detachment

The expedition detachment of the Ural Pedagogical Institute conducted protection excavations in the Furmanov district of the Ural region, 40 km south-west of the village of Furmanov, in the interfluve of the Small and Big Uzen. In the Kos-Oba tract, five mounds were excavated, and in the Mamai tract, seven mounds were excavated, in which 29 burials were found. All mounds are loess, 20–30 m in diameter and 0.5–1.0 m high. The burials belong to the Bronze Age, the Sauromato-Sarmatian, Pecheneg-Polovtsian and Golden Horde periods. A series of deformed skulls has been received. The Bronze Age burials were made according to the cremation or inhumation rites (on the right and left sides, the head to the north and northeast). Tombs of the Savromato-Sarmatian period were made in pits and soil pits, where the dead are oriented to the north, northeast, south with deviations to the west and east. Late nomad burials are in rectangular pits, the buried are oriented to the west, north and east.

The inventory of the Bronze Age graves is represented by vessels of the Srubnaya culture, bronze daggers of laurel shape, two sandstone casting molds for casting pointed tools, and a spherical top of a white marble mace with four ledges, and various bone handicrafts. In the Savromato-Sarmatian graves, clay vessels with zoomorphic handles and ornamentation along the body and rim, bronze disc-shaped mirrors and mirrors with a protruding handle, brooches, iron daggers and a short sword, jewelry made of paste, stone, bronze, silver and bone were found. In the graves of late nomads, a quiver with diamond-shaped arrowheads, the remains of a bow with bone overlays, bronze ornaments of a belt set, parts of a saddle, stirrups, a bit, bronze mirrors, scissors, - the remains of leather shoes, fabric from clothes, the remains of a bokka headdress were found.