Archaeological studies in the Republic of Bashkortostan

In August 2024, the Primeval Archaeological Expedition of the Institute of Archaeology named after A.Kh. Khalikov of the Tatarstan Academy of Sciences continued its studies on the Starokirgizovo burial ground nearby the village of Starokirgizovo in the Ilishevsky district of the Republic of Bashkortostan.

The staff and students of Kazan (Volga Region) Federal University, staff of the Kazan State Institute of Culture, Kazan National Research Technological University, Kushnarenkovo Museum of Local Studies, Udmurt Institute of History, Language and Literature of the UB RAS, Secondary School of the village of Starokirgizovo, postgraduates of the Tatarstan Academy of Sciences, students of Kushnarenkovo multidisciplinary and Ufa law and construction colleges took part in the excavations.

The excavations covered the space, adjoined to the site, investigated in 2018 under the supervision of R.R. Sattarov, from the northern side. On the area of 140 square meters 8 burials of the Piany Bor archaeological culture were studied. The burial rites of the studied burials are the same. The graves are shallow simple sub-rectangular pits, the size of which slightly exceeds the height of the buried. Attention is drawn to the stable orientation of the buried in two sectors – northern and eastern. It is impossible to establish the orientation of some burials due to their destruction.

The burial set from the studied burials has numerous analogies in the Piany Bor complexes of the Belaya-Ik basin. The chronological framework of the materials of the burial complexes from the 2024 excavation can be preliminary determined within the II century BC – I century AD.