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The paper is devoted to the issue of the historical content of Sintashta type sites in the Southern Trans-Urals. The author considers that Sintashta fortified settlements and associated burial grounds reflect the history of communities of a transcultural phenomenon that united the clans of miners, metallurgists, blacksmiths and casters from several neighboring archaeological cultures. The metal production became the main reason for many outstanding innovations that were subsequently acquired by the population of vast territories of forest-steppes and steppes of the Southern Urals and Kazakhstan and which determined the main directions of development of livestock crops in the Late Bronze Age.
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Vinogradov, N.B. (2021). Metal Production in the Life of Sintashta and Petrovka Communities (Clans): Reflections of the Field Archaeologist. In: Yuminov, A., Ankusheva, N., Ankushev, M., Zaykova, E., Artemyev, D. (eds) Geoarchaeology and Archaeological Mineralogy. GAM 2019. Springer Proceedings in Earth and Environmental Sciences. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-48864-2_24
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