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ГОРНОАЛТАЙСКИЕ НАХОДКИ И СКИФЫ

Bibliographic Description

Горноалтайские находки и скифы / Руденко, С. И. – Москва; Ленинград : Изд-во Академии Наук СССР, 1952. – 266 с.

Author
Руденко, С. И.
Publisher
Изд-во Академии Наук СССР
Year of publication
1952
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Language
Russian
Publication type
Book
Country of Publication
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Description

The spread of Scythian culture as far as the Altai Mountains could be judged from the reports of ancient Greek authors, in particular Aristeas of Proconnesus and Herodotus. This was shown more clearly by archaeological finds of the late 17th and early 18th centuries. At that time, Russian settlers searching for treasure, while digging up burial mounds in Western Siberia, discovered a large number of remarkable gold items. Some of these objects were presented to Peter I by Demidov, while most of them were bought up by decree of Peter I by the Siberian governor Gagarin and, through the Manufacture and Mining Collegium, entered the Petrine Kunstkammer. This is how the famous collection of Scythian-Siberian gold was formed, now kept in the State Hermitage. Based on the data from V.V. Radlov's excavations, it could be concluded that in the middle of the first millennium BC the Altai Mountains were inhabited by tribes whose culture had much in common with the culture of the Scythian tribes of southern Eastern Europe, already well known at that time, although there is extremely little data for a detailed characterization of these tribes.

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