This week, archaeometallurgists from the UK are working at Baitursynuly University.
Professor Miljana Radivojevic from the UCL Institute of Archaeology, London, already visited KRU with research in 2016. This time, she came with her student Ilaria Calgaro.
This week, scientists are conducting research in the KRU archaeological laboratory as part of the international project "Dream Eurasia" ("Study of Eurasian Metallurgy").
The goal is to study Bronze Age products and everything related to metallurgy: furnaces, slags, crucibles, splashes.
"The finds of Kostanay archaeologists are invaluable for our project," foreign scientists note. "We should especially note the contribution of the head of the KRU archaeological laboratory, Andrey Logvin, and his team. Thanks to their finds, we are studying materials from the burial grounds of Bestamak, Karatamar, and Kamysty.
With the help of a special device, archaeometallurgists determine the composition of archaeological finds.
For example, this cauldron became a sensation in the archaeological world in 2017, - notes Irina Shevnina, a senior employee of the KRU archaeological laboratory. - We found it on the shore of the Karatamar reservoir. So all these years we did not know the exact composition of this vessel, since cutting it for research is equivalent to destroying it.
Our colleagues from the UK, using a special scanner gun, determined that the vessel consists of pure copper. From this, we can draw certain conclusions - where it could have been made. By the way, these were not local people, migrations, most likely, Caucasian.
In addition, Miljana Radivojevic held an open lecture for students and teachers of the KRU. She spoke about her unique project, which covers an entire continent and noted that the contribution of KRU archaeologists to this work is enormous.
