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woman, placed beside male skeleton A in Burial No. 4 suggests the 

 idea of immolation in situ. 



On the pillow of the deceased had been placed one or two clay 

 vessels. The remainder of the grave furniture consisted of a small 

 copper rod, a sculptured shell, phalanges of horses and sheep (No. 

 13), 16 sheep astragals and i shell from No. 4, recalling bone rings 

 with two openings from Bronze Age burials north of the Black Sea. 

 In addition, in No. 5 were several horse bones, the remains of food 

 placed in the grave. 



The character of the grave furniture and the form of the vessels 

 attributed this cemetery to those of Andronovo type whose area 

 extended during the second half of the second millennium before our 

 era across the steppes stretching from the Yenisei to the Urals. In 

 the southern Urals cemeteries of this type present a series of peculiar 

 traits indicating the impact of Western and Eastern cultures. 



KocHERGiNo Cemetery 



During 1929-1930 this burial site, situated near Kochergino (Dub- 

 rovno) on the Nemda River in the Sovetskii District of the Kirov 

 region, was excavated.^" Five burials were unearthed. Grave No. 3 

 contained the skeleton of a young man, 25 to 30 years of age, and 

 No. 5 was that of a child 4 to 6 years old. In graves Nos. 1-2 there 

 were traces of incineration ; No. 4 contained no bones. The uni- 

 formity of the material provided by the different burials permits no 

 chronological subdivisions. These burials were made within a 50- 

 year interval during the period from the ninth to the twelfth century — 

 in order to be more precise, to the end of the tenth or the beginning 

 of the eleventh century of our era. 



Upper Volga 



According to Tretiakov, from 1933- 1937 extensive archeological 

 work was carried out in the region of the Upper Volga. As a result, 

 it became possible to trace a picture of the historical evolution of the 

 region during the first millennium. The explorations encompassed 

 both banks of the Volga for a stretch of more than 350 kilometers, 

 from the mouth of the Dubna (Ivanikovo) to that of the Kotorosli 

 (lAroslav) and the banks of its affluents, including those of Mologa 

 and Seksna, whose valleys were explored for a distance of 100-120 

 kilometers upstream. 



20 Talitskii, M., Le Cimetiere de Kocergino, in Materialy i Issledovaniia po 

 Arkheologii SSSR, No. i, p. 168, Moscow, 1940. Resume in French. 



