Sintashta
Sign in to saveSintashta is an archaeological site in Chelyabinsk Oblast, Russia. It is the remains of a fortified settlement dating to the Bronze Age, –1800 BC, and is the type site of the Sintashta culture. The site has been characterised as a "fortified metallurgical industrial center."
Key facts
- Ancient site.name
- Sintashta
- Ancient site.native_name
- Синташта́
- Ancient site.image
- Andronovo culture.png
- Ancient site.image_size
- 300px
- Ancient site.caption
- Location of the Sintashta culture (violet)
- Ancient site.map_type
- Continental Asia#Russia
- Ancient site.map_size
- 300px
- Ancient site.relief
- yes
- Ancient site.location
- Chelyabinsk Oblast, Russia
- Ancient site.type
- Settlement
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- archaeological site
- Country
- Russia
- Followed by
- Srubnaya culture
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- directions
- р. Синташта, левый берег, в 4 км от посёлка
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Encyclopedic overview
9 sectionsContents
- Archaeology
- Location
- Description
- Sintashta II settlement
- Notes
- References
- Sources
- Further reading
- External links
Sintashta is an archaeological site in Chelyabinsk Oblast, Russia. It is the remains of a fortified settlement dating to the Bronze Age, –1800 BC, and is the type site of the Sintashta culture. The site has been characterised as a "fortified metallurgical industrial center."
==Archaeology== The Sintashta complex of archaeological sites includes the fortified settlement of Sintashta, the Large Sintashta Kurgan, the Sintashta burial ground, the Sintashta III Kurgan, and the Small Sintashta burial ground (without a kurgan). It was discovered in 1968 by an expedition from the Ural State University. Research and excavations were conducted by the Ural-Kazakhstan Archaeological Expedition under the direction of V. F. Gening and G. B. Zdanovich until 1986. Senior Ural-area archaeologists L. N. Koryakova, V. I. Stefanov, and N. B. Vinogradov also participated in the study of the Sintashta complex.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Sintashta” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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