BONE AND HORN ARTEFACTS FROM THE BRONZE AGE SETTLEMENT KALINOVKA-II

DOI_disc_logo https://doi.org/10.14258/tpai(2022)34(2).-03
Keywords: Bronze Age, steppe and forest-steppe Altai, ancient settlements, bone artefacts, horn raw material, bone carving

Abstract

The article presents the results of a comprehensive technical and functional study of a collection of bone and horn artefacts discovered during the excavations at the Bronze Age settlement the Kalinovka-II, located on the border of the steppe and forest-steppe Altai in the territory of the Mamontovsky district of the Altai Krai. In total, 33 items were analyzed, presented as whole products, as well as fragments, blanks. The most numerous categories of the products is blunt knives for kneading skins (“tupiki” in Russian archaeological terminology) made of animal jaws, which were widely used in the leather craft of the Late Bronze Age. The group of tools for processing leather and wool is complemented by needler, as well as a bone spindle whorl unique for the settlements of the Bronze Age of Altai. The set of horn objects differs in variety: mallet, handles, button, ornithomorphic finial, blank for cheek-piece. As a result of the study, it was established that the Kalinovka-II bone industry is characterized by the presence of a number of epoch-making features characteristic of almost all objects of the developed and late Bronze Age of the region. At the same time, single finds can be considered unique for the area under consideration (whorl, mallet) or having few analogies (ornithomorphic pommel). The proposed description of objects made of bone and horn, as well as techno-functional observations, supplement the information about the development of the bone industry in the developed and late stages of the Bronze Age in the steppe and forest-steppe Altai.

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Author Biographies

I.A. Valkov, The Federal Research Center of Coal and Coal-Chemistry of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Engineer, The Federal Research Center of Coal and Coal-Chemistry of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences

G.E. Ivanov, Independent Researcher

Candidate of Historical Sciences

A.S. Fedoruk, Altai State University; Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography SB RAS

Candidate of Historical Sciences, Researcher of Altai State University, Barnaul, Russian Federation; Researcher of Barnaul Laboratory of Archaeology and Ethnography, Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences

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Published
2022-07-12
How to Cite
Valkov I., Ivanov G., Fedoruk A. BONE AND HORN ARTEFACTS FROM THE BRONZE AGE SETTLEMENT KALINOVKA-II // THEORY AND PRACTICE OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL RESEARCH, 2022. Vol. 34, № 2. P. 37-49 DOI: 10.14258/tpai(2022)34(2).-03. URL: http://journal.asu.ru/tpai/article/view/11671.
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Vol 34 No 2 (2022)
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MATERIAL ANALYSIS IN ARCHAEOLOGY

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