Stone altar from Chuy valley (anent ethnocultural interactions)

Abstract

The paper is devoted to the problem of detection ethnocultural interactions between populations of the South Urals and Chuy Valley (Zhetysu). Stone altars of Early Eurasian nomads of VII—III centuries bc can be markers of such kind of contacts. Analogies of the stone altar from Kyrgyzstan Republic with the ornament of stylised bird head come from the territory of South Cis-Urals. The date of them is the end of VI—V centuries bc. Finds of horse armament, which were done at the same motive, of bronze semirechye altar-lamp and golden bindings in the form of lying feline predator confirm this hypothesis. All these things can indicate close ethnocultural interactions between popul