Mounds of gold excavated on lands for large families in Samara region
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Gold jewelry of the Late Bronze Age culture was found on the territory of the burial mound "Koshki II" in the Samara Region. The rescue excavations were carried out by employees of the regional Agency for the Preservation of Historical and Cultural Heritage. They examined land plots with an area of 8.4 thousand square meters, which were allocated to large families.
The Agency specified that the discovered artifacts included bronze temple pendants covered with gold foil, 130 clay vessels, bronze daggers, beads and cross-shaped clothing stripes. The burial mound was attributed to the Srubna culture of the late Bronze Age (second quarter – middle of the second millennium BC). All the finds were handed over to archaeologists. The excavation site was given permission to build individual houses.
The study of the burial ground "Koshki II" began in June last year. The archaeological site consists of several burial mounds, where representatives of the tribes that inhabited the present-day Samara region in the 17th century BC are buried. Scientists noted that during excavations, ten children's burials were found in one of the burial mounds, which is a great rarity.
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