title: HORSE EQUIPMENT OF THE NOMADS OF THE SOUTHERN URALS IN THE SECOND HALF OF THE 6th – 5th CENTURIES BC
abstract: The article is devoted to the characteristics of the complex of horse equipment accessories used by the nomads of the Southern Urals in the second half of the 6th – 5th centuries BC. The Southern Ural region is defined as the flat territories adjacent to the Southern Urals in the west and east. This complex was identified as a result of the study of the co-occurrence of more than 700 harness items found in nomadic burials and on burial platforms beneath kurgans dating to the 7th – 4th centuries 
journal: Nizhnevolzhskiy Arheologicheskiy Vestnik