Avtodor showed artifacts found by archaeologists during the construction of the M-12 highway – Nizhny Novgorod – Kazan settlement of the Bronze Age with traces of buildings. Unique archaeological finds were presented at the exhibition within the framework of Transport Week 2021, according to Nizhegorodskaya Pravda.
The exposition includes metal and glass decorations, items of military equipment for horses and riders, household items, weapons and agricultural implements discovered in the basement of one of the buildings.
In addition, the exhibition featured molded vessels from settlements of the Bronze Age. They were found in settlements called Dmitrievskaya Sloboda-3 and Akuzovo-6. The most ambitious research of monuments of the 2nd millennium BC in the Nizhny Novgorod region took place there. The artifacts will be examined and then transferred to museums.
Ancient settlements were found back in October, the portal NN.ru reported. During the excavations, it was possible to find rare bronze items for this time: for example, a leaf-shaped knife, a fragment of an awl and a part of a fish hook. Scientists attributed the finds to the Pozdnyakovsk culture. Its representatives lived from the middle of the second millennium to the beginning of the first millennium BC in the region of the Oka, Klyazma rivers, in the upper and middle right bank of the Volga region.
Houses ranging from 95 to 200 square meters, traces of which were found during excavations, presumably had a pillar wall structure and a gable roof.