For some, summer is the time for vacations and vacations, but for the archaeological laboratory of Baitursynuly University it is the peak of work!
More recently, scientists and students have returned from another excavation. They brought new knowledge, discoveries and, of course, emotions.
- We continued the research of the Kamyst settlement in the Denisovsky district, - said Irina SHEVNINA, senior researcher at the archaeological laboratory of the KRU. – It took us two years to dig out a dwelling with an area of about 100 square meters. It had three metallurgical wells and two furnaces. There are many traces of the metallurgical process – slags, ceramics and bones. Radiocarbon analysis confirmed our version that this settlement dates back to the period of the XXI-XVIII centuries BC.
The archaeological research of the A. Baitursynuly KRU is conducted jointly with the A.H. Margulan Institute of Archaeology.A cooperation agreement was signed between the universities, which includes joint scientific work.
Not only scientists, but also students are actively involved in the research. As the participants of the expedition say, this year they had a hard time – the excavation process was hampered by rains.
- The water quickly filled the wells, it had to be pumped out with pumps. Nevertheless, we worked productively. We returned home tired but happy.
Very soon, the archaeologists of Baitursynuly University will hit the road again. This time – to the famous Torgai geoglyphs. Recall that last year, scientists managed to make a sensational discovery. They excavated the burial of a man and a woman in the Karaturgai ring, which gave a lot of information and allowed the geoglyphs to be dated.
The staff of the archaeological laboratory of the KRU try not to think ahead, but still hope that there will also be a lot of interesting things in the other mounds (and to date only four out of nine have been excavated).
