Archaeological work on the Ushbastobe settlement in the Ugam tract

(based on the materials of 2022)

Abstract

The article is devoted to the results of an archaeological study of the 2022 field season of the Ushbastobe
settlement, which is located in the mountainous closed valley of the Ugam River (Southern Kazakhstan). During the
excavations of the monument, solid walls made of stone were uncovered, a new archaeological complex, interesting
in the context of content, was obtained, including a mass of ceramic products, stone tools, artifacts made of bone,
iron, similar in its historical and cultural content to the materials of the Karatobe stage of the Arys culture of Southern
Kazakhstan (1st century BC – 4th century AD). In the ethno–cultural aspect, the monument is associated with the Kangju
state, which was located on the territory of Southern Kazakhstan in the first centuries before and the first centuries
of our era.