Kargaly. Volume 5

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The fifth volume Kargalinsk series of publications devoted to the most common problems in the study of the history of mining and smelting center Kargaly. Against the backdrop of extremely numerous and varied materials Circumpontic and Eurasian metallurgical province are scheduled milestones in the development of production at Kargaly; the role and place of the production in the provincial system, the most brilliant periods of rise and fall of mining and metallurgical business in the center. It is dedicated to the first part of the book. In the second part deals with an extremely complex and rarely discussed in archaeological literature questions lurking, sacred life of archaic miners and metallurgists: their beliefs, rituals, social status.