DRAWINGS OF SHAFT-HOLE AXES OF THE ANDRONOVO PERIOD FROM THE PERSONAL ARCHIVE OF M. P. GRYAZNOV
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The article is devoted to the study of materials on the Bronze Age contained in the personal archive of M. P. Gryaznov, which is stored in the Museum of Archaeology and Ethnography of Omsk State University. The author drew attention to the information collected by M. P. Gryaznov about shaft-hole axes found in the late 19th — first half of the 20th centuries in Altai, Kyrgyzstan, and Kazakhstan. Unfortunately, these items were found outside complexes and not by archaeologists. Some ended up in private collections of antiquities enthusiasts, while others ended up in museum collections. Most of them, for some reason, are not used by modern scientists. However, it is known that in the last decade, about one and a half dozen publications by scientists from Barnaul, Kemerovo, and Novosibirsk have been devoted to shaft-hole axes of the Ob, Tomsk, and Baraba forest-steppe regions. Specialists considered various aspects related to shaft-hole axes. However, the author believes that the use of information about the axes collected by M. P. Gryaznov would increase (at least a little) the source base of researchers, which always leads to an increase in the reliability of the results of the work. The author draws the attention of colleagues to the fact that scientists do not always pay attention to collections stored in museums of different levels and departmental affiliations, as well as in private collections. As for the information system “State Catalog”, which is supposed to facilitate access of scientists to collections, it does not always contain comprehensive information about ancient objects. Therefore, the author hopes that the publication of drawings from the archive of M. P. Gryaznov will at least slightly increase the source base of shaft-hole axes, and attract the attention of archaeologists to the study of old collections stored in museums.
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