DICE FOUND AT THE EXCAVATIONS IN THE PODYMALOVO-1 SETTLEMENT, BASHKIR CIS-URALS (BASED ON THE EXCAVATIONS IN 2022)

  • A.I. Tuzbekov R.G. Kuzeev Institute for Ethnological Studies, Subdivision of the Ufa Federal Research Centre of the Russian Academy of Sciences Email: aituzbekov@gmail.com
  • E.V. Bersenev R.G. Kuzeev Institute for Ethnological Studies, Subdivision of the Ufa Federal Research Centre of the Russian Academy of Sciences Email: egor215@bk.ru
  • G.R. Shagapova Bashkir State Pedagogical University. M. Akmulla Email: shagapovanfbgu@mail.ru
DOI_disc_logo https://doi.org/10.14258/tpai(2023)35(4).-09
Keywords: Late Middle Ages, Bashkir Cis-Urals, Golden Horde, astragals, dice, village Podymalovo-1, use-wear analysis

Abstract

The article presents the results of the research of astragali (talus bones) excavated in 2022 at the Golden Horde Podymalovo-1 (XIV). Settlement. The collection of animal astragals was studied with use-wear analysis. The obtained data were compared with the results of studies of similar artefacts made of talus bones which had been discovered at the ethnographic expedition in 2019 in the village of Nyzhnebaltachevo, the Tatyshlinsky district, in the Republic of Bashkortostan. Those objects were used in the game known as “loedyiga” (a kind of game similar to “fi ve stones/bones”). The analysis of two collections revealed identical processing traces which had been left when the bones had been extracted from the limbs of animals. However, the wear marks differed in their character. The use of use-wear analysis and comparative methods in the study of the talus bones of animals discovered at the village of Podymalovo-1 made it possible to classify them as dice (“chips” and “bits”). It was concluded that the astragals could have been used in a version of the game different from the game“five stones/bones”.

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Author Biographies

A.I. Tuzbekov, R.G. Kuzeev Institute for Ethnological Studies, Subdivision of the Ufa Federal Research Centre of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Candidate of Historical Sciences, Researcher at the R.G. Kuzeev Institute for Ethnological Studies, Subdivision of the Ufa Federal Research Centre of the Russian Academy of Sciences

E.V. Bersenev, R.G. Kuzeev Institute for Ethnological Studies, Subdivision of the Ufa Federal Research Centre of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Researcher at the R.G. Kuzeev Institute for Ethnological Studies, Subdivision of the Ufa Federal Research Centre of the Russian Academy of Sciences

G.R. Shagapova, Bashkir State Pedagogical University. M. Akmulla

Candidate of Historical Sciences, Associate Professor of the Department of the Bashkir Language and Literature, Bashkir State Pedagogical University M. Akmulla

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Published
2023-12-15
How to Cite
Tuzbekov A., Bersenev E., Shagapova G. DICE FOUND AT THE EXCAVATIONS IN THE PODYMALOVO-1 SETTLEMENT, BASHKIR CIS-URALS (BASED ON THE EXCAVATIONS IN 2022) // THEORY AND PRACTICE OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL RESEARCH, 2023. Vol. 35, № 4. P. 159-174 DOI: 10.14258/tpai(2023)35(4).-09. URL: http://journal.asu.ru/tpai/article/view/14408.
Issue
Vol 35 No 4 (2023)
Section
MATERIAL ANALYSIS IN ARCHAEOLOGY

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