{"title":"The Studies of the Novo-Ufa Burial Ground in 2000","authors":"Vladimir V. Ovsyannikov","doi":"10.24852/pa2023.3.45.134.147","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24852/pa2023.3.45.134.147","url":null,"abstract":"The article publishes the results of rescue excavations of a small area (about 47 m2) Novo-Ufa burial ground. The description of the burial rite and inventory of 12 burials is given. Weapons, household items and jewelry were found in the graves. Two groups of burials were identified in the investigated area. One group of burials dates back to the II–I centuries BC. The date is established by the presence of bronze arrowheads and eight-shaped buckles in the burial complexes. The second group of burials is attributed to the I century BC – I century AD. The chronological position of this group is determined by the presence of iron arrowheads, buckle with a movable tongue and bronze diamond-shaped belt pads in the graves. Thanks to the research of 2000, ideas about the territory of the Novo-Ufa burial ground have changed. The area of the necropolis has almost doubled. New chronological boundaries of the monument have also been installed: IV century BC – I century AD.","PeriodicalId":37438,"journal":{"name":"Povolzhskaya Arkheologiya","volume":"45 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135132113","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Olga V. Lozovskaya, Daria N. Fedorova, Anna А. Malyutina, Snezhana D. Taktasheva
{"title":"Typological Analysis and Assessment of the Bone-Working Stone Inventory of the Zamostje 2 Late Mesolithic Layer","authors":"Olga V. Lozovskaya, Daria N. Fedorova, Anna А. Malyutina, Snezhana D. Taktasheva","doi":"10.24852/pa2023.3.45.171.190","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24852/pa2023.3.45.171.190","url":null,"abstract":"The article presents the results of a typological and functional analysis of flint assemblage from the Late Mesolithic layer (II half of the 7th – early 6th millennium cal BC) at the site Zamostje 2 (Volga-Oka region). The studied series of flint implements is limited to a material from the excavations of 1996–97 and has 11892 artefacts. A typological analysis of the Late Mesolithic flint industry at Zamostje 2 showed the absence of standard blanks and the instability of tool morphology. The shaping of tools was due to the needs of production operations for hard materials. In order to reconstruct the features of bone production in the Late Mesolithic on the East European Plain, the collection was evaluated and 193 items were selected for use-wear analysis. The results of the experimental and traceological analysis revealed 24 tools with microtraces of bone processing, among which scrapers predominate. In a small number there are tools for sawing-cutting and burin cutting (grooves and engravings). A flint polished adze was used to chop a bone or elk antler. The identified implements for working bone (antler), on the one hand, showed a certain homogeneity of morphological characteristics and modes of shaping the working blades of the tools, on the other hand, gave a clear idea of the methods of processing solid organic raw materials in the Late Mesolithic period.","PeriodicalId":37438,"journal":{"name":"Povolzhskaya Arkheologiya","volume":"44 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135132299","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Zhanbolat R. Utubayev, Sergey B. Bolelov, Zhanargul S. Kalieva, Makpal K. Suyundikova, Assemgul D. Kassenova
{"title":"Experimental Work on the Production of Ceramics of the Chirik-Rabat Culture","authors":"Zhanbolat R. Utubayev, Sergey B. Bolelov, Zhanargul S. Kalieva, Makpal K. Suyundikova, Assemgul D. Kassenova","doi":"10.24852/pa2023.3.45.235.247","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24852/pa2023.3.45.235.247","url":null,"abstract":"The article introduces the results, descriptions and analysis of the experiment on the reconstruction of the molding mass and the manufacture of ceramic vessels of the Chirik-Rabat culture (3rd–2nd centuries BC). The site adjacent to the pottery workshops of the Babish-mola 7 archaeological complex (Eastern Aral Sea region) was used as a landfill. There is the Akkyr hill nearby, abounding in reserves of clay raw materials. The experiment was conducted during the field research of the Chirik-Rabat archaeological expedition of the Margulan Institute of Archaeology in 2022. The main objective of this experiment was to determine all aspects of the production cycle for the manufacture of ceramic vessels – from collecting raw materials for the manufacture of ceramics, designing vessels, firing and ending with obtaining the result. During the experimental work, a search was carried out for clay deposits near the Babish-mola oasis along the riverbeds. The process of collecting organic matter (cattle manure) was carried out in the nearest settlement, located 60 km from the Babish-mola monument, for the admixture of chamotte, featureless fragments of ceramics from the monument were used. The vessels were formed on a single-disc turntable.","PeriodicalId":37438,"journal":{"name":"Povolzhskaya Arkheologiya","volume":"29 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135132109","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Funeral Practice of the Sapalli Culture in the Reflection of Vedic Texts","authors":"Armen R. Kasparov","doi":"10.24852/pa2023.3.45.109.117","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24852/pa2023.3.45.109.117","url":null,"abstract":"Northern Bactria in the Bronze Age became the arena of complex processes of interaction between the local population and the world of the Eurasian steppes. During this period, the early urban agricultural Sapalli culture, where the contacts of the two traditions were reflected not only in material but also in spiritual culture, developed and functioned on the territory of the south of modern Uzbekistan. Based on the results of studies of the burial grounds of Bustan VI–VII, the first-time attempt to verify the funeral rite with the written sources of the ancient Indo-Aryans and Indo-Iranians was made in the present work. The chosen approach made it possible to solve simultaneously several problems: to clarify the path of advancement of the Indo-Aryan tribes to India; trace one of the ideological foundations of the formation of the Bactrian civilization; illustrate the impact on the local environment of the steppe ethnos represented by the Andronovo population, identified with the Indo-Aryans. The results of the realized work allow us to speak about the significant presence of the Aryan tradition in Sapalli society and the emergence of new forms of funeral rituals. The changed mythological and ritual statements in cosmogonic representations have established as their main constant the maintenance of universal balance and order, carried out through a system of sacrifices, the highest of which at the final stage of life was a person.","PeriodicalId":37438,"journal":{"name":"Povolzhskaya Arkheologiya","volume":"2 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135132108","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Evgenia L. Lychagina, Anastasia Yu. Smertina, Elena M. Tomilina
{"title":"Stone Decorations from the Chalcolithic Sites of the Upper and Middle Kama Region (an attempt at complex analysis)","authors":"Evgenia L. Lychagina, Anastasia Yu. Smertina, Elena M. Tomilina","doi":"10.24852/pa2023.3.45.191.203","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24852/pa2023.3.45.191.203","url":null,"abstract":"The purpose of the article was a comprehensive study of stone decorations from the Chalcolithic sites of the region. The authors used petrographic description, typological and use-wear analysis. The authors examined 40 items from 6 archaeological sites located in the Upper (2) and Middle (4) Kama region. The jewelry was made of serpentinite of varying degrees of hardness. Serpentinite could originate from the Saranovsky and Moivinsky deposits in the Perm region. The shape of the products was divided into 5 groups, among which the leading ones were oval and teardrop-shaped. Most of the jewelry had a single through hole, which was more often located in the upper part of the product and was drilled on one side. The use-wear analysis made it possible to identify traces from the manufacture of jewelry, traces from use and traces that appeared as a result of the archeologization of objects. Most products were treated as patches on clothing. The shape and quality of jewelry could depend on both the hardness of the raw materials and the skills of the master. They don't create standard groups. The closest analogies can be found in the ornaments studied at the Ust-Kama burial grounds. The population that left these burial grounds could take part in the formation of the Chalcolithic cultures of the Kama forest.","PeriodicalId":37438,"journal":{"name":"Povolzhskaya Arkheologiya","volume":"52 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135132111","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Anna A. Malyutina, Anton I. Murashkin, Snezhana D. Taktasheva
{"title":"Working of Reindeer’s Antlers at the Neolithic – Bronze Age Settlement Mayak 2 (Murmansk region)","authors":"Anna A. Malyutina, Anton I. Murashkin, Snezhana D. Taktasheva","doi":"10.24852/pa2023.3.45.204.218","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24852/pa2023.3.45.204.218","url":null,"abstract":"The article presents the preliminary results of the traceological analysis of the artefacts made of reindeer antler (Rangifer tarandus) found at the settlement Mayak 2 (Murmansk region). The site, excavated in 1979–1984 by N. N. Gurina, has been dated to the Neolithic – Bronze Age. The unique collection includes more than 1800 various implements made of hard organic materials. The study of methods of reindeer’s antlers processing according to the data of macro- and microscopic analysis of technological traces was carried out for the first time. Among the 250 artefacts selected for the study were production waste, preforms and completed items. It was obtained that two technological methods of the antler`s fragmentation to create a preform were used. The first method involved longitudinal and transverse chopping of the antler, which could be made with stone or metal tools. The second method based on carving of longitudinal and transverse grooves with subsequent division along them. It was found that the basal part of the antler was not actually used (one case was found). The medial part – the rod – were used for creating of the vast majority of implements and ornaments. Antler tines were rarely used for a limited set of items.","PeriodicalId":37438,"journal":{"name":"Povolzhskaya Arkheologiya","volume":"44 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135132288","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Chronology of Central European Impulses in the Volga Forest Region: Fatyanovo and Abashevo Cultures","authors":"Stanislav A. Grigoriev","doi":"10.24852/pa2023.3.45.84.94","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24852/pa2023.3.45.84.94","url":null,"abstract":"There is a difference in chronology based on radiocarbon dating and historical dates associated with Near Eastern written sources. With the introduction of AMS dating, this gap has become smaller, but has not disappeared. However, the application of Bayesian statistics to this dating often produces dates corresponding to historical and dendrochronology. This allows us to assume that as the radiocarbon method improves, its results will coincide with the historical chronology. Comparison of materials from forest cultures of Eastern Europe, the Fatyanovo and Abashevo, allows us to connect them with the chronology of Central Europe, and, thereby, to determine the lower boundaries of these cultures within the dendrochronology of the Alpine zone. As a result, younger dates have been obtained for them than the results of radiocarbon dating give: after the middle of the 27th century BC for the Fatyanovo culture and ca. 20th century BC for the Abashevo.","PeriodicalId":37438,"journal":{"name":"Povolzhskaya Arkheologiya","volume":"49 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135132293","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}