A bronze pin from the east variant Pakhomovskaya culture complex

Purpose. The bronze pin analyzed was found in situ in grave#2 mound number 24 of the east variant of the Pahomovskaya culture site Old Garden (Vengerovskii district of the Novosibirsk region). It is a thin bronze stick 9.7 cm long and round in cross-section. Its maximum thickness at the tops is 0.5 cm, and the diameter of the working part gradually vanishes to the tip. The pin has a peculiar finial, which does not have absolute analogues. Similar items were found at the forest-steppe Irtysh Land sites, namely Inberen’-VI и Omsk Station. They are chronologically close and are dated the end of the Bronze Age, which was a transitional period from the Bronze Age to the early Iron Age and touched the Irtysh range of cultures. The closest parallel to our discovery goes to Central Asia. Results. The links between the subjects of the eastern variant of the Pahomovskaya culture and the Begazy-Dandybai culture of Central Kazakhstan are confirmed not only by the similarity of ceramic material and the anthropological and genetic data, but also by the presence of pins with a peculiar finial. Samples from the Aral Sea region and Western Siberia are very close to pins from Southwestern Turkmenistan. We assume that it was the place from which fashion for such items spread to the north, northeast and indirectly got to the West Siberian forest steppe (probably by the Irtysh corridor). An indirect confirmation of this hypothesis is the fact that bronze pins with coiled-coil finials appeared in the region as early as the early Bronze Age. Perhaps they are the basis of this tradition, which continued in the region during the Late Bronze Age but with a modified form of the finial. Pins from the Old Garden site and Inbereni-VI had analogues at the North Tagisken site, Shamshinskii and Huckskii buried treasure, Sumbar-I and II, Parkhai-1. Conclusion. The fact of a bronze pin with a peculiar finial found in the funerary complex of the east variant of the Pahomovskaya culture Old Garden indicates southwestern ties of its owner and the ethno-cultural impact of the Begazy-Dandybai on northern neighbors living in the eastern part of the south of the West Siberian Plain during the late Bronze Age - the beginning of the early Iron Age.