On approaches to the study of the militarization of the Sintashta society

This investigation is devoted to the study of the degree of militarization inherent in the Sintashta culture (Bronze Age in the southern part of the Southern Trans-Urals). The number of weapons found in burials and the correlation between them and the sex/age of the deceased make it possible to conclude that the Sintashta population was involved in military conflicts to a very limited extent. Nevertheless, the methods employed for the production and use of these objects from a military range and the technology associated with the manufacture of chariots went on being repeated and handed down from one generation to the next.