BONE ARROWHEADS FROM THE EARLY TAGAR (BIDZHA) ASSEMBLAGES OF THE SAGAYSKAYA PROTOKA-4 KURGAN CEMETERY

  • P.V. German The Federal Research Center of Coal and Coal-Chemistry of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences Email: lithos@mail.ru
  • S.N. Leontiev The Federal Research Center of Coal and Coal-Chemistry of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences Email: lemosk1@mail.ru
  • I.A. Valkov The Federal Research Center of Coal and Coal-Chemistry of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences Email: valkov.i@outlook.com
DOI_disc_logo https://doi.org/10.14258/tpai(2023)35(1).-02
Keywords: Minusinsk Hollows, Tagar culture, burials, arrowheads, traceology, context

Abstract

The article deals with the results of an instrumental and contextual study of the bone arrowheads found during urgent excavations on the Sagayskaya Protoka-4 kurgan cemetery (Khakassia, the Askiz district). The morphological characteristics of the artifacts and the results of their traceology study are presented as well as the circumstances in which the arrow points were found in burial assemblages. The material for studied in the present article artifacts were long bone walls of big animals. The study of changes on the points’ surface allowed us to determine the main peculiarities of their production technology. All studied artifacts were shaped with a metallic knife. In one case, polishing was used. The obtained data allow us to continue the database of technologies of production not only of bone arrow points but also Tagar bone objects in general.

The materials of an assemblage (tomb 2 in kurgan 3) with a dead body with tools in situ pushed us to turn to the bone arrowheads in Tagar burials. It is noted, that the consistent presence of this category of tools in burial practice is connected to the Bidzha group of the Early Tagar burial assemblages (the 8th –6th centuries BC). Based on analogies, it was stated that the arrow points sets were always put on the left of the body. Compact arrangement and the same orientation of the points indicate that they were in a quiver (wrappage). The found regularities are specific to Bidzhin assemblages of the whole Tagar culture area.

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Author Biographies

P.V. German, The Federal Research Center of Coal and Coal-Chemistry of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Candidate of Historical Sciences, Senior Researcher Laboratory of Archaeology of the Federal Research Center of Coal and Coal-Chemistry of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences

S.N. Leontiev, The Federal Research Center of Coal and Coal-Chemistry of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Engineer Laboratory of Archaeology of the Federal Research Center of Coal and Coal-Chemistry of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences

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

Senior Engineer Laboratory of Archaeology of the Federal Research Center of Coal and Coal-Chemistry of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences

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Published
2023-04-14
How to Cite
German P., Leontiev S., Valkov I. BONE ARROWHEADS FROM THE EARLY TAGAR (BIDZHA) ASSEMBLAGES OF THE SAGAYSKAYA PROTOKA-4 KURGAN CEMETERY // THEORY AND PRACTICE OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL RESEARCH, 2023. Vol. 35, № 1. P. 29-45 DOI: 10.14258/tpai(2023)35(1).-02. URL: https://journal.asu.ru/tpai/article/view/12870.
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Vol 35 No 1 (2023)
Section
MATERIAL ANALYSIS IN ARCHAEOLOGY

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