METAL PROCESSING COMPLEX OF THE PRE-SEIMIN PERIOD FROM THE MIDDLE KONDA
The article is the publication of the Early Polymjat settlement Leva VIII located in the middle part of the Konda basin (Lower Irtysh region) The discovered remains evidenced the existence of a metal working facility at the settlement, where two types of ingots-billets were made using the one-sided molds. The product segment and the methods of manufacturing belonged to the pre-Seimin period of the Bronze Age. The discovery of similar molds in the bordering on the Ural part of Western Siberia - from the middle Ural to the Lower Ob - evidenced the existence of close contacts of the local populations and the development of their own metal working centers. Chemical composition analysis indicated the Ural origin of the metal used. The knowledge of metal and the methods of its processing by the local craftsmen during the pre-Seimin period explain the reasons for the fast spread in the taiga environment of the late Bronze Age technologies.