The funeral complexes with weapons and horse equipment of the 4th - 3rd centuries bc from Zayukovo-3 burial mound (Kabardino-Balkariya)

In 2014 the United North Caucasian Archaeological Expedition of the State Historical Museum, the Kabardino-Balkarian State University and the Institute of Archaeology of the Russian Academy of Sciences carried out works at the Zayukovo-3 burial mound located in the Baksan district of the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic. The excavation area was 107.5 square meters. 11 burials and 4 sacrificial pits were investigated. The analysis of the funeral rite and inventory made it possible to date the discovered 10 graves and all sacrificial pits by the second half of the 4th - 3rd centuries BC and correlate them with the final stage of the existence of the Koban-Kolkhida cultural-historical community. The article is devoted to the publication of 5 funeral complexes (4 graves and 1 sacrificial pit) with weapons and horse equipment. Overlapping of stone slabs was erected over all burials. In most cases, the burials were pits with a lining from small fragments of limestone slabs...