Excavations of 2013 at the Late Bronze Age cemetery of Kumsay (Tajikistan)
This paper is dedicated to results of excavations of the Late Bronze Age burial ground of Kumsay situated in the western part of the Hissar valley in Tajikistan. The cemetery of Kumsay was investigated for several years in 1987-1988, 2007 and 2012-2013. In 2013, its excavations were completed. These investigations have resulted in new materials indicating close contacts between the settled agricultural tribes and the steppe ones in the mid-2nd millennium BC in Tajikistan. Near the cemetery of Kumsay, another burial ground of the Late Bronze Age (Kumsay 2) was discovered. Materials from the latter site are linked with the Tazabag'yab culture of the southern Aral area.