Aleksandr M. Zhul’nikov, Igor Askeyev, Dilyara N. Shaymuratova, Sergey Monakhov
{"title":"Images of Fish in the Rock Art of the Ancient Population of Northern Europe","authors":"Aleksandr M. Zhul’nikov, Igor Askeyev, Dilyara N. Shaymuratova, Sergey Monakhov","doi":"10.24852/pa2024.1.47.27.46","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24852/pa2024.1.47.27.46","url":null,"abstract":"The article presents the results of the analysis of the study of the image of fish in the rock art of ancient hunters and fishermen of Northern Europe (final VI – III BC). During the study, 134 fish figures were studied on 6 rock paintings and in 17 clusters of petroglyphs of Fennoscandia. The small proportion of fish figures in relation to the total number of images on the rocks of the region, with a high proportion of fishing in the primitive economy, established by bone remains at Neo-Eneolithic sites, suggests a mythological basis for the images under consideration. Spatial differences in the appearance of fish figures in Northern Europe make it possible to distinguish two areas (western and eastern), radically different in the style of the ichthyomorph image. The rock art mainly reflects representatives of the largest fish species that lived in the region: catfish, sturgeon, halibut, pike, salmon, whitefish. In the bone remains at the sites located near the clusters of rock carvings, other types of fish are usually dominant: zander, cod. In the compositions of fishing, as in other hunting scenes carved on the petroglyphs of Fennoscandia, only active methods of its extraction are presented, although there is numerous archaeological evidence of the use by the inhabitants of the region for catching fish and other animals of various types of traps.","PeriodicalId":447120,"journal":{"name":"Povolzhskaya Arkheologiya (The Volga River Region Archaeology)","volume":"62 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-03-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140365018","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":"Bustanaevo Burial Mound – a New Great Migration Era Monument in the North-West of Bashkortostan","authors":"A. G. Kolonskikh, Ruzil R. Sattarov, A. Sitdikov","doi":"10.24852/pa2024.1.47.203.218","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24852/pa2024.1.47.203.218","url":null,"abstract":"The article publishes preliminary results of archaeological research on mound No. 45, the Bustanaevsky burial mound, located on the territory of the Buraevsky district of the Republic of Bashkortostan. The monument was discovered in 2011, archaeological research began in 2015 under the leadership of A.G. Kolonskikh. Currently, excavations of the necropolis continue in the course of joint research by the Institute of Ethnological Research named after. R.G. Kuzeev and the Institute of Archaeology named after A. Kh. Khalikov Tatarstan Academy of Sciences. During excavations, one single burial was discovered under the mound. Along with the poorly preserved skeleton, the burial contained archaeological material represented by two vessels, arrowheads and elements of a belt set made in the heraldic style, horse bones and iron bits. The data obtained allow us to assume that the necropolis was left by the bearers of the Kushnarenkovo archaeological culture. The preliminary dating of the burial is the end of the 6th - beginning of the 7th century AD.","PeriodicalId":447120,"journal":{"name":"Povolzhskaya Arkheologiya (The Volga River Region Archaeology)","volume":"72 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-03-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140366403","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":"Pottery Assemblages from Vodoba II Settlement in the Light of Ideas about the Early Iron Age in Lake Beloye Region","authors":"Alexander V. Novikov","doi":"10.24852/pa2024.1.47.110.124","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24852/pa2024.1.47.110.124","url":null,"abstract":"The paper deals with the analysis of materials from the Vodoba II settlement that demonstrates a complicated process of development of Late Kargopol antiquities nearby Lake Beloye. The discovered pottery assemblages are syncretic. Several types of ceramics are distinguished: textile, brushed, smoothed with impressions of a comb stamp, ceramics of the Vyatka-Vetluga culture of the Ananyino cultural and historical area (ACHA) and hybrid. It is this combination in ceramic sets from ancient settlements that determines the specificity of Late Kargopol antiquities. Two major stages in the development of settlements in this region are identified: the first one corresponds to the first half of the I millennium BC, the second one is accompanied by the spread of the bearers of cultural traditions of the VyatkaVetluga culture ACHA and the development of hybrid shapes of pottery in the settlements (up to the 3rd century BC) in these areas in the middle of the I millennium BC. At the second stage Lake Beloye area settlements are included in a large \"hybrid world\" with ceramics of close types, having a certain originality in different regions, which is primarily associated with the traditions of pottery assemblages formation in the previous periods.","PeriodicalId":447120,"journal":{"name":"Povolzhskaya Arkheologiya (The Volga River Region Archaeology)","volume":"66 22","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-03-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140364972","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}
N. Skakun, V. Terekhina, Jose Heredia, Vitaliya A. Agakhanova
{"title":"Reconstruction of the Technology for Manufacturing Slate Knives Based on the Results of Studying Materials from Sites of Ancient and Historical Eskimos","authors":"N. Skakun, V. Terekhina, Jose Heredia, Vitaliya A. Agakhanova","doi":"10.24852/pa2024.1.47.47.68","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24852/pa2024.1.47.47.68","url":null,"abstract":"The article deals with reconstruction of the technology for making slate knives of the Eskimos of Chukotka and Russian America, obtained during archaeological excavations and ethnographic collections. To achieve this goal, a comprehensive methodology for studying artifacts was used. First of all, a traceological analysis was carried out, which made it possible to record in detail traces of processing on the surfaces of knives, such as percussion, picketing, grinding and drilling. In addition, archaeological finds of abrasive stones and bow drills, which could be used for grinding knives and drilling through holes when fastening them in handles, were studied. The recorded uniformity of most technological features on both archaeological and ethnographic artifacts indisputably indicates the commonality of their manufacturing techniques. These data formed the basis for experimental modeling. The specific purpose of the experiments was to clarify the features of slate processing and methods for making replicas of women's and men's knives from it, similar to the original Eskimo products. The slate raw materials for the experimental replicas were selected based on the results of petrographic analysis of tools found at the ancient Eskimo settlement of Ekwen. The fastening of the handles was reconstructed on the basis of archaeological and ethnographic data on the use of binding material and adhesive composition. Technological traces identified and interpreted using a complex methodology on the surfaces of archaeological and ethnographic artifacts made it possible not only to characterize the methods of making these products, but also to prove the identity of their production, which is important evidence of the long existence of production traditions that have been preserved in Chukotka since the existence of the ancient Bering Sea culture of the 1st millennium n. e. until the time of ethnographic observations made in the 19th–20thcenturies.","PeriodicalId":447120,"journal":{"name":"Povolzhskaya Arkheologiya (The Volga River Region Archaeology)","volume":"49 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-03-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140367483","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}
Vladimir V. Ovsyannikov, E. Ruslanov, Anvar A. Khurmaev
{"title":"Current Issues and Prospects of Study the Karayakupovo Culture Hillforts","authors":"Vladimir V. Ovsyannikov, E. Ruslanov, Anvar A. Khurmaev","doi":"10.24852/pa2024.1.47.219.233","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24852/pa2024.1.47.219.233","url":null,"abstract":"Due to the increased interest in Magyar issues in the study of Ural-Volga antiquities, the interest of researchers in the issues of Karayakupovo-Kushnarenkovo materials has also awakened. Despite the almost half-century-long process of studying of the Karayakupovo culture sites, which began in the 60s of the XX century by G.I. Matveeva and was actively developed further in the works of V.F. Gening, N.A. Mazhitov, V.A. Ivanov, G.N. Garustovich and others, the authors can state that at the moment the Karayakupovo hillforts in general are poorly represented in the archaeological literature. The purpose of this work is to show the degree of study and introduction into scientific circulation of the materials of the Karayakupovo type hillforts and to replenish the source base with the material obtained during the latest research of the Institute of History, Language and Literature of the Ufa Federal Research Center of the Russian Academy of Sciences (IHLL UFRC RAS) at the Kara-Yakupovo and Kushnarenkovo hillforts. All the pottery obtained at the Kara-Yakupovo hillfort and most of the pottery from the Kushnarenkovo hillfort belongs to the Karayakupovo type. The authors conclude that at the present stage of studying the Karayakupovo sites, a more in-depth and systematic analysis of settlement materials should be carried out and researchers should pay special attention to issues related to their topographical features of placement, the system of mutual arrangement, internal structure and ways of life support.","PeriodicalId":447120,"journal":{"name":"Povolzhskaya Arkheologiya (The Volga River Region Archaeology)","volume":"8 8","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-03-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140366975","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":"New Results and Ideas of the Archaeological Research on Early Hungarian History in the Eurasian Context","authors":"Attila Türk","doi":"10.24852/pa2024.1.47.234.247","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24852/pa2024.1.47.234.247","url":null,"abstract":"As Early Hungarian history is a resource-poor research area, archaeology, a field of science with rapidly increasing resource material, is of paramount importance. It is important to emphasize that in the case of archaeology, there is also a significant expansion in research methods, mainly thanks to the bioarchaeological studies that have started with great momentum. In recent years, the most significant archaeological results of Early Hungarian history were the explosive increase in the number of Subbotsi-type sites associated with Etelköz accommodations in the region of the Dniester River. There are now 10–12 sites along the central flow of the Dnieper River. The relations with the neighbouring areas, mainly with the northern, Slavic regions, and with the Byzantine culture in Crimea are well reflected here. In addition to the chronology of the material, its nature is also explicitly consistent with the image drawn by Muslim sources of the 9th-century ancestors of the Hungarians. Further to the east, the Volga elbow in Samara and the wider area of the Southern Urals remain the ones that show the most connections regarding Hungarian ethnic genesis. As a working hypothesis, we can say that the earliest archaeological traces of the ancestors of the Hungarians can be assumed east of the Ural Mountains, in the eastern neighbourhood of the Ural region of Chelyabinsk. A group of people here presumably set off westwards in the early 9th century. In a short time, this community appeared on the left bank of the Volga, and its accommodation area extended to the border of Volga Bulgaria. After that, part of it remained along the Kama River. The other group migrated westwards before the 830s, and settled in the northern foreland of the Black Sea.","PeriodicalId":447120,"journal":{"name":"Povolzhskaya Arkheologiya (The Volga River Region Archaeology)","volume":"26 11","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-03-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140367050","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":"Two Cimmerian Steles from the North-West Black Sea Region","authors":"Igor V. Bruyako","doi":"10.24852/pa2024.1.47.86.95","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24852/pa2024.1.47.86.95","url":null,"abstract":"New finds of stone sculptures from the epoch of early nomads are quite rare. Therefore, the publication of such new sculptures of pre-Scythian times, besides, two more at once, should be of interest. Moreover, both steles were found in a very limited area of the North-Western Black Sea region and each of them has a unique iconography and a rather original repertoire of objects. The stele from Kairy village is a type of pillar-shaped sculpture. The most original image on it is a round shield with a very rich ornamental composition. The stele from Aleksandrovka belongs to the stele-slabs. This type of sculpture is possibly an intermediate link between purely phallomorphic (Cimmerian) and anthropomorphic (Scythian) sculptures. Since markers of relative chronology are columnar and slab steles – the first are early, the second – late, this may mean that in the upper reaches of the Tiligul estuary in a fairly limited area, the tradition of installing the Cimmerian sculptures persisted for quite a long time.","PeriodicalId":447120,"journal":{"name":"Povolzhskaya Arkheologiya (The Volga River Region Archaeology)","volume":"44 12","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-03-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140367111","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}
Dmitry V. Selin, Zalia A. Fedorova, Y. Chemyakin, V. Borzunov
{"title":"Peculiarities of Firing Vessels of the Beloyar and Kalinkina Cultures on the Barsova Gora in the Surgut Ob River Region (according to termal analysis)","authors":"Dmitry V. Selin, Zalia A. Fedorova, Y. Chemyakin, V. Borzunov","doi":"10.24852/pa2024.1.47.96.109","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24852/pa2024.1.47.96.109","url":null,"abstract":"The article presents the results of a of the features of firing hand-made pottery of the Beloyar and Kalinkinа cultures, collected during excavations from eight settlements of the first half of the Early Iron Age in the Barsova Gora tract near the western outskirts of the city of Surgut. In the course of production, the vessels of both cultures were subjected to heat treatment of a low degree of intensity. With the exception of a few containers, they were fired under approximately the same conditions. Among the Beloyar ceramics, the complex from the fortified settlement Barsov gorodok I/3 stands out. It presents three groups of pots and jars, differing in the degree of firing intensity: intensive, medium and least. It was established that the difference in the intensity of firing ceramics was due not to temperature fluctuations in the fires and hearths, but to differences in the skills of the craftsmen. These differences could manifest themselves in the temperature and / or duration of firing, the time spent by containers in fires and hearths, the design features of heat engineering devices, etc. In terms of the intensity of firing, a group of vessels from the settlement Barsova Gora III/20, made of highly sanded clays, stands out in the collection of dishes from the Kalinkina culture. On the clay component preservation diagram, the values for such samples are located closer to its center. This is especially characteristic of vessel 32, which was fired more intensively than all the other items of this group. The corresponding characteristics of the three vessels from the settlement Barsova Gora III/12 on the same diagram are at the maximum distance from the origin of coordinates. This also distinguishes them from the rest of the pottery from this site and testifies to less intense firing. It is not yet possible to reconstruct specific types and design features of devices for firing ceramics used by potters of the Beloyar and Kalinkina cultures. One can only assume that the dishes were fired in bonfires and hearths.","PeriodicalId":447120,"journal":{"name":"Povolzhskaya Arkheologiya (The Volga River Region Archaeology)","volume":"8 5","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-03-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140365519","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}
M. Gursoy, Bauyrzhan A. Baitanayev, Emel Acar, B. Sizdikov
{"title":"Paleoanthropological Analysis of Osteological Material from the Myntobe Burial Ground","authors":"M. Gursoy, Bauyrzhan A. Baitanayev, Emel Acar, B. Sizdikov","doi":"10.24852/pa2024.1.47.173.190","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24852/pa2024.1.47.173.190","url":null,"abstract":"The article deals with the paleoanthropological analysis of the skeletons unearthed from the Myntobe necropolis and dated to the II – IV centuries AD. Myntobe necropolis is located 2 km south of Gani Muratbayev village in the Keles district of Turkestan province. The burial ground consists of more than 600 randomly located mounds of various sizes. All mounds have a dirt embankment. Archaeological excavations were carried out at the burial ground in 2017 and 2022, as a result of which burials in the catacombs and naus were unearthed. An analysis of the burial tradition and recovered material allows researchers to speak about the belonging of these burials to the Kangli tribes. Since the burials date back to the Kangli period, the theoretical part reveals the issues of the location and political structure of the tribes and, most importantly, the determination of the paleopathology of the Myntobints by conducting a macroscopic analysis of the discovered skeletons. The results of the analysis allowed for drawing preliminary conclusions about lifestyle, social life, and nutritional status. When writing the theoretical part of the article, electronic textbooks and resources from the book fund of the National Library of Kazakhstan and the library of the International Kazakh-Turkish University named after Kozh Ahmet Yasawi were used. In total, 9 skeletons were selected for paleoanthropological and paleopathological analysis, from mounds No. 3, No. 6, and No. 7. Paleoanthropological reasoning in the main section is written on the basis of materials in Turkish and English from the collections of Turkish libraries. The skeletons found were analyzed macroscopically and many diseases were identified, such as osteoarthritis (joint deformity), osteopathy, ankylosing spondylitis, heel spurs, thickening of the cranial bone, and deformity of the mandibular joint. Preliminary conclusions about the paleopathology of the discovered skeletons are made.","PeriodicalId":447120,"journal":{"name":"Povolzhskaya Arkheologiya (The Volga River Region Archaeology)","volume":"44 26","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-03-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140368477","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":"Z-Symbols in the Interpretation of the Semantics of the Configuration of S- and Г-Shaped Scythian Cheek-Pieces of the Eastern European Zone","authors":"L. S. Dobrovolskyi, U. Umitkaliev","doi":"10.24852/pa2024.1.47.125.138","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24852/pa2024.1.47.125.138","url":null,"abstract":"The work deals with the issue of the regional specificity of the formation and development of the Dionysian cult and Orphic teachings, common in the Northern Black Sea region during the Greek colonization of the 6th–5th centuries BC. On the extensive Scythian archaeological material of the Eastern European zone, the design of horse headbands decorated with cult symbols of Dionysus-Zagreus is being studied. S-shaped and Г-shaped Scythian cheekpieces serve as an object of study to determine whether their configuration corresponds to the inscriptions of the initial letter in the Greek name Zagreus on bone plates from Olbia, which are the first epigraphic evidence of the penetration of the Orphic teaching into the Northern Black Sea region. The results reveal the semantic content of the shape of the Scythian cheekpieces, imitating the inscription of the letter zeta, the initial letter in the name of Dionysus Zagreus, or serving as the designation of number seven, a magical number for adherents of the Dionysian cult and Orphism as a religious and philosophical doctrine. The symbols of the Dionysian cult and the Orphic teachings, used by the Scythians in the manufacture of decorative elements for horse equipment, performed an apothropeic and mystical function for those initiated or close to this cult, or served as a certain distinctive sign in society. Further study of Scythian artifacts for the presence of Dionysian symbolism will allow us to trace the extent of the spread of the cult of Dionysus, as well as make a comparative description with other areas of the Scythian-Siberian world and reveal the semantic load of animal images in connection with the shape of products decorated in the Scythian animal style.","PeriodicalId":447120,"journal":{"name":"Povolzhskaya Arkheologiya (The Volga River Region Archaeology)","volume":"3 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-03-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140368858","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}