Elunin culture

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Location of the Elunin culture (), with the Elunin cemetery () and other contemporary cultures c. 2000 BCE

The Elunin culture or Elunino culture (Russian: Eлунинская культура) is an indigenous Bronze Age culture of animal breeders in the steppe and forest-steppe area of the Ob-Irtysh rivers of Ural foothill-plain zone in Siberia, developed from the local Bolshemys Eneolithic culture, dated around 2300–1700 BCE.[1][2]

The monuments of this early and advanced bronze-producing culture number more than 50 settlements and cemeteries. Burial complexes include ground (non-kurgan) burial sites of Elunin, Staroaley, Tsygan Sopka, Wolf Cape, etc. The culture was named after the Elunin cemetery.[3] The Elunin culture was discovered and described by Yu. F. Kiryushin in 1986.[4]

The tribes of the Elunin culture, along with the Krotov and Loginov cultures, were involved in formation of the Seima-Turbinsky transcultural phenomenon of numerous bronze tools and weapons, and highly developed casting technology.[citation needed]

Funerary monuments and settlements of the Elunin culture are known to include tools and weapons of the Seima-Turbinsky types, including knives, celts, spearheads, and molds for casting celts and spearheads.[5]

  1. ^ Grushin S.P., Pottery Industry of Elunino Culture Population
  2. ^ Linduff, Katheryn M.; Sun, Yan; Cao, Wei; Liu, Yuanqing (2018). Ancient China and its Eurasian Neighbors: Artifacts, Identity and Death on the Frontier, 3000–700 BCE. Cambridge University Press. p. 52. ISBN 978-1-108-41861-4.
  3. ^ "althisto.ru". Althisto.ru. Archived from the original on 28 October 2014. Retrieved 23 October 2014.
  4. ^ Degtyarev A. D. et al., Metalwork of Elunin Culture p.27
  5. ^ Degtyarev A.D. et al., Metalwork of Elunin Culture p.27