Abstract
The arrowheads from Mound 3, Burial pit 1 (240 items), and Burial pit 2 (130 items) of the Kichigino I Burial Ground were subjected to the XRF analysis. In both burials of Mound 3, the arrowheads have a similar chemical composition. The admixtures are Ni, As, Sb, Pb, and Bi with contents that do not exceed 1 wt%. In individual cases As content can reach 34.2%. The arrowheads metals are divided into 7 groups. Metal groups are distributed unevenly. Pure copper arrowheads prevail, then As minor admixture items follow them in numbers. The items with a high concentration of Sb and As are rare. Other metals are found in low quantities. Communities conducted burying in the burials 1 and 2 of mound 3 used mainly copper and its alloys of local manufacture. They did not practice copper alloying for arrowheads production.
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The work is supported by RFBR, project No. 20-09-00205 “Culture and community of earlier nomads in South Trans-Urals (a case study of Kichigino I burial grounds)”. The authors thank Marina V. Ivanova who helped to make this study available to a wider audience.
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Blinov, I.A., Tairov, A.D. (2022). Arrowheads from Two Sarmatian Burials of the One Mound: Metal Composition and Shape Relation. In: Ankusheva, N., Chechushkov, I.V., Stepanov, I., Ankushev, M., Ankusheva, P. (eds) Geoarchaeology and Archaeological Mineralogy. Springer Proceedings in Earth and Environmental Sciences. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-86040-0_5
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