Деревянные конструкции курганов‑склепов сарагашенской и тесинской традиции (опыт реконструкции по новым материалам)
Wooden Structures of Burial Mounds of Saragash and Tes’ Traditions (experience of reconstruction using new materials)

Summary/Abstract: The authors present a comparative analysis of the features of wooden structures from the Skalnaya-5 kurgan and the Skalnaya-6 burial mound no. 1, which were studied in the Askiz district of the Republic of Khakassia. The article focuses on identifying sustainable architectural traditions (algorithms) in Saragash and Tes’ wooden structures and their reconstruction. Log cabins of Skalnaya-6 with a two-layer wooden floor made of logs and layers of birch bark had two supports (logs-mats). The ten-log-frame chamber at Skalnaya-5 burial mound was topped with a multi-tiered lattice roll of interlaid logs. The interior of the tomb has been preserved in the form of wooden shelves made of planks and logs, for laying dead people and their imitations. The crypts of Skalnaya-5 and Skalnaya-6 were burnt and looted, but all the important details of the design features have been preserved. The variety of wooden funerary structures at the final stages of the Tagarian culture in the Minusinsk basin reflects the use of the widest range of prototypes of traditional wooden structures (cages in mines, cellars, log cabins buried in the ground). The “mosaic” picture of the features of wooden burial structures indicates a flexible balance of conservatism and variability of the basic principles of construction technologies in the Early Iron Age throughout the territory of the Sayano-Altai mountainous country.

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