SETTLEMENT OF THE LATE BRONZE AGE IN KARZHANTAU FOOTHILL

The settlement of the Bronze Age-Burgulyuk is located 50 km to the south-east from Shymkent, near homonymic natural landmark of the north-west slopes of Karzhantau range in South Kazakhstan oblast. According to the settlement excavation materials, there are fixed two large settling periods, matching by their chronological frames with the first stage of Tashkent oasis Burgulyuk culture-IX-VII centuries B.C., that is also synchronous with the monuments of Central Kazakhstan, Zailiysky Alatau and Semirechye of that time. The peculiarity of the found ceramic material, its distinctive features from synchronous crops, lead to the idea that we are dealing with a new type of pottery of the late bronze age, which we propose to call Karzhantau. The originality of the found ceramic material, its distinctive features from synchronous in time cultures, lead to the idea that we are dealing with a new type of pottery of the Late Bronze Age, which we propose to call Karzhantau.