Why 70% of ancient Ural settlement's habitants didn't live up to the age of 18
August 29, 2018, South Ural State University
Artifacts of the Bronze Age at the territory of the Southern Urals have been the object of active research for several decades by archaeologists from around the world. For the last decade, scientists of South Ural State University, together with international colleagues from the U.S. and Germany, have been researching a synchronous necropolis (Kamenny Ambar-5), located 280 km away from Chelyabinsk. Achievements of contemporary genetics allowed them to answer many questions of the earliest history.
Modern archaeology and mysteries of the Bronze Age
Research fellows and students of SUSU's Institute of Social Sciences and Humanities, supervised by Andrey Epimakhov, professor of the Department of Russian and Foreign History, have been carrying out excavations in the South of the Chelyabinsk region. Kamenny Ambar is a settlement of the Bronze Age located in the Kartalinsky District, on the left bank of the Karagayly-Ayat River. Four thousand years ago, it was inhabited by people with a specific lifestyle, unique cultural traditions and worldview. The reinforced settlement and funerary complexes they created are of a special interest for archaeologists.
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