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Middle Ural Sites and the Chronology of Northern Eurasia

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 May 2014

Marija Gimbutas
Marija Gimbutas
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Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University
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The investigation of trade relations as they continued onward from the middle of the second millennium B.C. is at present one of the most fruitful methods of establishing the chronological sequence of the Bronze Age in northern Eurasia. In a recent article (Gimbutas, 1956) I attempted to correlate the Seima and Borodino dates with those of the Near East on the one hand, and of China on the other, basing my argument on analogies among widely-distributed artifacts of close affinity. Stratigraphical evidence is of no less importance than the presence of traded objects and deserves special attention. By now numerous stratified sites lying east and west of the Middle Urals have been discovered. In 1956 Raushenbakh's study appeared, a monograph, which, by a thorough description of Neolithic and Bronze Age sites east of the Middle Urals, with special emphasis upon the Gorbunovo peat-bog site, demonstrated clearly the importance of Middle Ural finds for defining the chronology of the forested region of northern Eurasia.

Since World War II continuous excavations at the confluence of the Kama and Chusovaia Rivers have been directed and described chiefly by O. N. Bader and have revealed stratified and unstratified Sub-Neolithic and Bronze Age habitation sites and cemeteries, all encompassed within a small area.

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Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society , Volume 24 , December 1958 , pp. 120 - 157
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Copyright © The Prehistoric Society 1958

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