Mezhovskaya culture
Bronze Age archaeological culture in the Southern Urals / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The Mezhovskaya culture[1] (mistranscribed as Meshovskaya culture[2]) is an archaeological culture of the late Bronze Age (13th to the beginning of the 7th century BCE). It was localized in the Southern Urals and named after the village of Mezhovka on the banks of the Bagaryak river in the northern part of the Chelyabinsk Oblast.
Geographical range | Eurasian steppe |
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Period | Bronze Age |
Dates | XIII cent. b.c. - VII cent. b.c. |
Preceded by | the local variant Andronovo culture and Cherkaskul culture |
Followed by | Itkul culture, Sauromatians |
The ancestors of the Mezhovskaya culture were the people of the Cherkaskul culture with the participation of the people of the Tobol taiga, with traditions and ceramics of the steppe zone of the Ural and Kazakhstan (Andronovo culture), especially the Sargarino-Alexis culture.[3]
The Mezhovskaya culture reflects the further stages of development of the Ugric community in active contact with the Indo-Iranian population of the Ural steppes.[4]