EARLY IRON AGE DYUPSYA BURIAL, CENTRAL YAKUTIA

An Early Iron Age burial has recently been discovered 5 km northeast of Dyupsya Village in Central Yakutia. The shallow burial pit was found to contain the body of a man buried in fl exed position with the head facing southeast. The burial goods include the remains of two end plate overlays belonging to a small bow, a fl int endscraper, eight fl int arrowheads with horn mediators for arrows, a long bone dagger or javelin head, a bone awl, fragment of an iron object, and fl int fl akes. To date, no other burial site of this kind has been discovered in Yakutia. The Dyupsya artifact assemblage is typologically similar to those of Pokrovsky burials of the Early Iron Age. The assemblage is preliminarily dated to the period 5th century BC – 5th century AD.