This paper presents the analysis of a small number of burials from the Lola Cultural Circle, whose grave goods include bone spindle whorls. It provides a brief overview of trace evidence on the use of such objects that served as flywheels of the rotary system. The authors come to the conclusion that it was the Lolа Culture and related post-Catacomb cultural formations of Ciscaucasia and the Volga-Ural region that stood at the origins of the spread of traditions of using bone spindle whorls in funeral rites in the Late Bronze Age, in territorial and chronological sense being a transmission link of the Caucasian tradition of placing spindle whorls in graves.

Keywords: spindle whorl, funeral rite, Lola Cultural Circle, post-Catacomb era, traceevidence, chariot cultures, continuity.

 

 

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Accepted: 03.10.2024

Article is published: 15.06.2025