Cherkaskul culture
The Cherkaskul culture is an archaeological culture of the Bronze Age, situated in the south of the Ural and Western Siberia. It is named after the village Cherkaskul located in the Kaslinsky District of the Chelyabinsk Oblast. Opened K.V.Salnikov in 1964.[1]
Origin
[edit]The population of the Cherkaskul culture may be ancestral to the Ugrian peoples.[2]
The ancestors of the Cherkaskul culture are associated with the population of the Ayat culture, which was located in the north of the modern Sverdlovsk Oblast. The Cherkaskul culture's population interacted with the tribes of the Andronovo culture.[citation needed]
References
[edit]- ^ Сальников К. В. Очерки древней истории Южного Урала. М., 1967
- ^ "Райманов Р. Ш. Угорская этническая интерпретация населения Урала эпохи поздней бронзы (историография проблемы)". Archived from the original on 2007-10-19. Retrieved 2016-01-08.