О времени и истоках появления клинкового оружия с прямым перекрестием на территории Южного Приуралья
About the Time and the Origins of Bladed Weapons with Rectangular Hilt in the Southern Urals

Summary/Abstract: In 400—350 BC the nomads of the South Urals developed a tradition of making swords and daggers with rectangular hilt. The origins of this tradition comes from Eastern regions of Eurasia, where they go back to the period of the Late Bronze Age. The point of reference could be North and Northwest of China, Western Mongolia, Minusinsk Hollow or Altai. Blacksmiths who manufactured weapons for nomads of Southern Urals did not simply copy eastern samples of bladed weapons, but combined the new form of rectangular hilt with the usual pommels (straight and bent). This series of swords and daggers could serve as a prototype for the formation of handles of Prokhorovka type bladed weapons, which got spread in 3rd—1st c. BC.

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