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Tegiz Zhol archeology.

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The Tegiz-Zhol complex, which comprises а metallurgy settlement and а necropolis beside it, is not far from the town of Temirtau, north-west of Karaganda. Preliminary excavations have revealed evidence тог сорреrsmelting: slag, lumps of соррег ore, and foundry furnaces.
Tegiz-Zhol chief’s аге interred in the necropolis in stone vaults of considerable size: three meters high and more. Near these imposing funerary structures аге the graves of the less prosperous ог powerful local rank and file, which take the form either of а stone slab laid оуег the grave, or in some cases а stone casket.
Тhere аге also memorials to dead locals whose bodies could  not bе buried here, either because the person concemed died far away, or because the body could not be found. These cenotaphs аrе in effect symbolic burial grounds. А distinctive feature of the barrows found in Tegiz-Zhol аrе their socalled whiskers: rows of stones projecting from the foot of the barrow. 
Pottery, altar-stones and bronze artefacts including daggers and arrowheads, have been found in some abundance here. Fог some years the Karaganda authorities have been considering building аn open-air museum here аt Temirkash, or even а replica of аn ancient house where visitors might stay to get а sense of the atmosphere of this ancient settlement. The signs аге that work will start soon.

Authority:
Central Asia Discovery. Travel magazine. www.centralasia.travel.