The Kazakh farmstead of the ethnographic settlement of Kozykosh

Abstract

The issue of study of the settled culture of nomads in recent decades has
been actively developed by various archaeological teams in Kazakhstan. This
new field known as paleo-ethnographicgot a scientific formalization in the
70s of the XX century. In 2021, excavation soft helater-medieval settlement of
Kozykosh of the late XIX – early XX centuries began in Akmola Ishim region.
The purpose of this article is to define the planning and compositional
structure of the ethnographic settlement of the Kazakhs, to describe the housing
and utility complexes, architecture, construction business based on the records
of the excavated dwelling No.3, to demonstrate the changes ofspatial layout
and planning conceptof the settlementsdue to the social and political changes
of the early XX century in Kazakhstan.
The research materials are based on the archaeological excavations of
the housing and utility complex of the farmstead No. 3 of the settlement of
Kozykosh; the remote, geophysical, historical and ethnographic methods of
study were used for the research. The significance of the excavations of the
settlement of Kozykosh lies in the first large-scale experience of obtaining
the materials, which confirm and describe the ethnographic information
concerning the Kazakh wintering areas.