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The role of the horse in the life of the southern taiga population of the Irtysh region of the early and developed middle ages
The article describes the role of the horse in the economy, ritual and military. Affairs of the southern taiga population of the Irtysh region of the early and developed middle ages. Archaeozoological collections from settlements Murinskoe I, II Upper Aksenovo, KIPO-Kulary III, and also from a soil (Okunevo III) and burial mounds (Aleksandrovka I, Ucuz I, Ust ' -Ishim I, III Bales, Small Tabinda I, Mala Beach IV, Panovo I, Ivanov Mys I) and the sanctuary of KIPO-Kulary III indicate the outstanding role played by the horse since the end of the first Millennium, and until the FOURTEENTH century. The upper Aksenovo II and KIPO-Kulary III cultural layers contain bones of 40 and 128 horse individuals, respectively. A compact cluster of 31 horse skulls was excavated at the KIPO-kulara III Shrine. In the graves are open the graves of horses in the mound (Bale III, barrow 7) and man (Bale III, barrow 7), burial in the mound with foals separated and laid on the trunk head (Small Tabinda I, mound 7) and missing head (pans. I, Kurgan 15), many skulls of young and semi-Mature individuals, the lower jaw, sometimes accompanied by accumulations of coal, rarely of things, "roller coaster" of Sandstone plates with teeth horses on them, of accumulation (of the jaw?) and separate teeth. Numerous types of horse equipment (iron and bimetallic stirrups, iron bits, bronze distribution plates, back lashes, bronze and bone spring buckles) indicate a significant role of riders in the southern taiga society.
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