The paper considers ornaments made from the teeth of animals (elk, beaver, badger, fox, marmot, musk deer, mountain goat or ram) found in the burials of the Tuzovsky Hills-1 ground burial ground in the Altai Territory. The most informative items are those made from musk deer and mountain goat or ram teeth. These animals do not live in the Barnaul-Biysk Priobye, and according to the information available to us, they did not live in the historical past either. Musk deer are common in the mountain taiga forests of Gorny Altai and Eastern Kazakhstan. Mountain goats and sheep are typical representatives of the highlands. In the past, the northern border of their range was along the Chemal River, the southern border was in the Mongolian Altai, and the western border was in Rudny (Eastern Kazakhstan). Products made from the teeth of these animals indicate connections with the Altai Mountains, which could have been carried out through the population who left the Solontsy-5 burial ground and burial in the Nizhnetytkeskenskaya cave-1. A joint finding of these ornaments with the shells of Dentalium, Corbicula ferghanensis Kurs. et Star, and Corbicula tibetensis Prash. It allows us to talk about relations with the Central Asian region. It is possible that there were contacts with native Ust-Narym or Botai cultures, or the population migrated to the Altai from the regions of Central Asia or Eastern Kazakhstan.
Key words: ground burial ground, burial, planigraphy, Eneolithic, early metal age, ornaments, pendants, animal teeth, migrations.
In the previous publication [Kiryushin Yu. F. et al. 2011], we considered ornaments made of mollusk shells found in the burials of the Tuzovsky Bugry-1 ground burial ground. It was concluded that the presence of truncated-conic penetrations from Dentalium shells and suspensions from Corbicula leaves indicates connections between the Altai population and the Central Asian region. They may have been carried out through contacts with native speaker ...
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