Abstract

Author:
Gino Caspari, Timur Sadykov, Jegor Blochin, Matthias Bolliger and Sönke Szidat, translated by Qiuyan Jiao, Xiang Wan

Doi: 10.7508/jra.02.2023.104.108

This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License CC BY 4.0, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited

Two-wheeled horse-drawn chariot depictions in the Eurasian steppe have long been stylistically dated to the Bronze Age. Here we present an example of a petroglyph embedded in the architecture of an early Scythian royal tomb in the Tuva Republic, Siberia. The construction of the tomb is dated through wiggle-matching to between 833 and 800 BCE (95.4%) thus providing a rare terminus ante quem for chariot depictions in southern Siberia. The new evidence supports the current chronological range for this type of petroglyph in the Eurasian steppe belt.
长期以来，欧亚草原上的双轮马拉战车图像一直由风格断代为青铜时代的产物。在本文中，我们展示了西伯利亚图瓦共和国一座早期斯基泰王室陵墓中的岩画。通过碳十四扭摆匹配(Wiggle-Matching)，将该墓葬的建造年代确定为公元前833年至公元前800年之间(95.4%)，从而为西伯利亚南部的双轮战车图像提供了罕见的年代下限。该新证据支持了欧亚草原带此类岩画目前的年代范围。

KEYWORDS
Chariot; Siberia; Tuva; Bronze Age; Eurasia
双轮战车，西伯利亚，图瓦，青铜时代，欧亚大陆