TY - JOUR AU - Habdulina, Марал PY - 2021/11/26 Y2 - 2024/03/28 TI - New data on the study of the Tasmola archaeological culture of Saryarka JF - Turkic Studies Journal JA - TSJ VL - 1 IS - 2 SE - ARTICLES DO - 10.32523/tsj.02-2019/2-3 UR - https://tsj.enu.kz/index.php/new/article/view/32 SP - 21-33 AB - <p>The article presents historical and cultural reconstructions of the research results of<br>the last decades of the Tasmola archaeological culture of Central Kazakhstan. Tasmola archaeological<br>culture in the frame work of the VII-III centuries BC was highlighted by M.K. Kadyrbaev<br>in 1966. Currently, the Tasmola culture source data base has been replenished with new types of<br>archaeological sites: “royal” mounds, settlements, stone statues. An analysis of them using new<br>natural-science methods makes it possible to make adjustments to the culturalal and chronological<br>periodization of the Saka era of the Saryаrka, and to consider the canons of the barrower chitecture<br>of then nobility and the compositional structure of the living space of the steppe nomads.<br>The archaeological classification of artifacts, radiocarbon analyzes date the Tasmola culture on<br>the 8th-6th centuries BC. At this time, large elite barrows appear, the architectural style of settled<br>monument sis emerging, which has been preserved until modern times, until the Kazakhs’ wintering<br>(kystau). Study of the structure of the land part of elite memorials confirms the concept of the<br>early Saka barrow tradition as architecturally complex and multi functional religious buildings.<br>The stone sculptures of the Tasmolatribes’ are characterized by a complex of signs that distinguish<br>the min to a separate group of ancient statuary art of the Scythian-Saka era.</p> ER -