Ornaments in the Sak culture of the Central Kazakhstan

The article presents a complex research of the art artifacts from the collections of the early Iron Age from the Central Kazakhstan. The primary attention is paid to the ornamental motives in the art of ancient nomads of the region; for their interpretation the authors used data on economic and cultural type of the paleometal era. The authors come to the conclusion that the art artifacts of the early Iron Age bear the impress imposed by features of the housekeeping which set the certain rhythm caught in ornamental compositions of the studied era.