Zevakinsky burial ground

Zevakinsky burial ground - ancient burial places in the Shemonaikhinsky district of the East Kazakhstan region , near the village of Zevakino , in the valley of the Irtysh river. About 500 graves date to the end of the Bronze Age .

In 1964-1974, they were investigated by the archaeological expedition of the Ust-Kamenogorsk Pedagogical Institute (headed by F.K. Arslanov). During the excavation, materials were collected on the ancient and medieval history of Kazakhstan. Ground structures in the form of round fences erected from quartz stone. The graves are lined with granite slabs or slates from the inside. Buried - in a bent position on the right side, head to the west. Found pottery with a geometric pattern, gold and bronze jewelry, beads, arrowheads, dagger, knife, needle, awl. Another group of burials, which includes a complex with a common grave, belongs to the Early Iron Age (9–8 centuries BC).

Kimaks military weapons, horse utensils, iron knives were found. A valuable find is a bronze mirror (9-11 centuries) with cuneiform writing . The culture of the Turkic-speaking Kimak tribes, which formed an association on the territory of Kazakhstan in the 9-11 centuries, was studied for a long time with the help of the monuments of the Zevakino burial ground and entered the scientific vocabulary as Kimak culture .