A P Borodovsky
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 802549 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | A P Borodovsky |
| NOMBRES | A P |
| APELLIDO | Borodovsky |
| FIRMA | BORODOVSKY A P |
| AFILIACIONES | Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6312-1024 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 54 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 28 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 54 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2007 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
Late 18th to Early 19th Century Representations of Armed Horsemen on Northern Khanty Ritual Artifacts
We describe representations of mounted warriors on ritual artifacts (silver plates and a leather pouch), used in ritual practices of the Khanty on the Lower Ob, and propose their chronological attribution and interpretation. A comparative analysis reveals the prototypes and dates of these representations and their connection with late 18 th to early 19 th century decorative traditions. Silver saucers with figures of horsemen wearing helmets were …
Late 18th to Early 19th Century Representations of Armed Horsemen on Northern Khanty Ritual Artifacts
В статье представлены описания, хронологические определения и интерпретация изображений воинов и армейской атрибутики на предметах культа хантов нижней Оби. Привлечен комплекс изделий, включающий серебряные тарелочки и кошелек из кожи. Историко-культурная атрибуция этих изделий позволяет установить прототипы изображений, их даты и связь с декоративно-прикладными традициями своей эпохи. Рассмотрены изготовленные в мастерской П.Т. Брюханова (г. Тоб…
Bone Carving Among Early Iron Age Nomads of Eastern Kazakhstan
Статья посвящена предметному комплексу косторезного дела в раннем железном веке на территории Восточного Казахстана как части Саяно-Алтайской горной страны. Материалом послужила обширная коллекция роговых предметов конской узды и снаряжения из погребения с сопроводительным захоронением коня в кург. 36 Берельского некрополя на Алтае. Задачей исследования является обоснование своеобразия этого предметного комплекса как основы для зонирования костор…
A Tes Stage Mound-Vault at Skalnaya-5, Khakassia
В статье вводятся в научный оборот данные, полученные при исследовании конструкции кургана-склепа Скальная-5 (Хакасия) — единственного на сегодняшний момент погребального комплекса тесинского времени, почти полностью сохранившего свою структуру. На основе этих данных с помощью программного продукта Blender 4 удалось выполнить визуальную реконструкцию склепа. Коллективная усыпальница представляла собой девятивенцовый сруб, перекрытый мощным многос…
Artillery of Small Redoubts (Stanzas) in the Northern Section of the Irtysh Defensive Line (The First Quarter of the 18th — Early 19th Centuries)
The article is devoted to the study of the artillery of small redoubts (stanzas) The Irtysh defensive line in the south of Western Siberia. The archaeological survey of the Irtysh defensive line of the Russian Empire (the 18th–19th centuries) was carried out in its northern section (the Cherlaksky district of the Omsk Region from the village of Solyanoe to the village of Tatarka). This territory is not only currently part of the Russian Federatio…
Bone Carving Among Early Iron Age Nomads of Eastern Kazakhstan
This study addresses carved bone artifacts crafted by Early Iron Age nomads of Eastern Kazakhstan as compared to those from more easterly areas of the Altai-Sayan Highland. A large sample of carved horn details of harness and bridle from a horse burial in mound 36 at the Berel cemetery, Altai, is described with a view to revealing the peculiarities of this craft among the Early Iron Age nomads of Kazakhstan. A comprehensive analysis (structural, …
A Tes Stage Mound-Vault at Skalnaya-5, Khakassia
This article introduces the findings relating to the construction of a mound-vault Skalnaya-5 in Khakassia—the only virtually completely preserved Tes funerary structure. On the basis of these data and using the Blender 4 software, we carried out a visual reconstruction of the vault. This collective tomb was a cabin, whose walls were built of nine layers of logs and covered with a multi-layered timber ceiling. Functionally, such a construction en…
Metal Spearheads from the Bronze Age—New Finds in the Omsk Region
В статье рассматриваются морфологические и хронологические особенности сейминско-турбинских наконечников копий, случайно найденных в Омской обл. Приводятся данные о количестве и картографии таких предметов. Выявлены хронологические отличия наконечников копий эпохи бронзы, отражающие как общую, так и относительную динамику их распространения. Более поздние изделия явно связаны с длительным бытованием наследия сейминско-турбинских бронз на территор…
A Log Structure in the Northern Palisade of Fort Umrevinsky
Статья посвящена результатам раскопок северного участка тыновой стены Умревинского острога. В ходе археологических исследований выявлено основание срубной конструкции с дощатым полом, встроенное в центральную часть северного тына. Плотное примыкание тыновой канавки к сохранившимся двум венцам сруба свидетельствует об одном строительном периоде возведения этих деревянных оборонительных сооружений. На данном участке выявлен еще один въезд на террит…
About One of the Design and Decoration Features of the Seiminsko-Turbiski Spears of the Middle Irtysh Region
The article is devoted to the analysis of one of the details of paired Seimin-Turbine spears with an automorphic decor from the Sedelnikovsky district of the Omsk region of the Russian Federation. The aim of the work is to clarify the degree of interaction between the design and decoration on the example of Seiminsko-Turbinsky bronzes, as a reflection of the unity of design and decoration of such objects. The openness of the question of interpret…
Comparison of Material of Stone Axes with “Ears” from Salair and Baikal
The article presents the results of the comparative analysis of stone raw materials of two axes with “ears” that were found in the areas located at a considerable distance from each other. The one of the axes was found in the Suenga River valley inn Salair Mountains, another is from the Baikal region. The distribution area of the stone axes with “ears” stretches from the Baikal region to Western Siberia. Mineralogical analysis of the rocks from w…
Tacheometric Survey and 3D-Model Building of Fortification Objects in the South of Western Siberia
Purpose. The most objective planigraphy of the earthen fortifications is one of the initial conditions for the reliability of the description of these objects and the subsequent analysis of their defensive capabilities. One of the most common devices for the instrumental surveys in modern archaeological research is a total station. The purpose of the tacheometric survey was to build 3D-models of the earthern fortifications of various types (cape …
Metal Spearheads from the Bronze Age— New Finds in the Omsk Region
This study addresses the morphological features and chronology of the Seima-Turbino spearheads found by chance in the Omsk Region. Their chronology evidences both general and specific features of their distribution. Late specimens attest to a long period of their use in Western Siberia. Special attention is paid to rare spearheads with Janus-like anthropomorphic representations, whose style reveals parallels with both Okunev tradition and Bronze …
A Log Structure in the Northern Palisade of Fort Umrevinsky
The study describes the findings of excavations at the northern palisade of Fort Umrevinsky. We revealed the basis of a log structure with a floor made of planks, adjoining the central part of the northern palisade. A tight joining of the palisade ditch with the two preserved rows of logs indicates a single construction episode. At this area, another entrance to the territory of the fort was revealed, situated right opposite the southern one. Des…
An Old Believers’ Skete near Maltsevo, Fort Chaus, Based on Mid-18th Century Documents and Their Comparison with Ethnographic and Archaeological Sources
Статья посвящена анализу характеристики скита старообрядцев в окрестностях д. Мальцево ведомства Чаусского острога по письменным источникам середины XVIII в. Установлено, что в специальной современной литературе об этом ските и самосожжении в нем существует целый ряд разночтений. Они касаются локализации места самосожжения и количества сгоревших, а также конструктивных особенностей скита. Описание этого скита является одним из наиболее полных и р…
Another Find of the Eastern Mirror With Sphinxes on the Middle Yenisei
The article is devoted to the publication of another metal button mirror with paired figures of sphinxes and a floral ornament with a Kufic inscription, recently discovered on the territory of the Middle Yenisei. In this region, similar items are not only rare (exhibits of the Minusinsk and Abakan museums), but are also markers of the northern border of the distribution of these items in the Mongolian time. The сlarity of the decoration details o…
Some Features of the Fortification of the Peter’s Time in the Middle Course of the Irtysh
Purpose . In the history of the development of Russian fortification architecture in Siberia in the era of Peter I, the most unique situation and bright page should be considered the construction in a short time of a line of 930 miles fortresses along the right bank of the Middle and Upper Irtysh from the Omsk fortress to the Ust-Kamennaya. For Siberia, this was a unique situation, since previously fortified lines had not been created here. There…
Salt Turn”—A Toponym in the Middle Irtysh Basin
This study addresses the "archaeology of salt" on the Middle !rtysh, where the !rtysh defense line was situated, as well as the routes whereby lake salt was transported in the 18th and 19th centuries. The main question concerned the historical causes underlying the toponym "Solyanoi Povorot" (Salt Turn) in the Cherlaksky District of the 0msk Region, southwestern Siberia, in the 18th century. This name had been given to one of the redoubts of the …
An Old Believers’ Skete near Maltsevo, Fort Chaus, Based on Mid-18th Century Documents and Their Comparison with Ethnographic and Archaeological Sources
This study focuses on an Old Believers’ skete near the village of Maltsevo, Fort Chaus, north of modern Novosibirsk, where, according to mid-18th century documents, community members committed self-immolation. Documents differ as to where the rite occurred, how many people died, and how the skete was built. As compared to other contemporaneous sketes in Russia, this one is described in more detail. To all appearances, its construction resembled t…
A Bronze Age Shaft-Hole Axe from the Northwestern Baraba Forest-Steppe
Статья посвящена публикации и анализу вислообушного топора с гребнем, обнаруженного на южном берегу оз. Майдан (Венгеровский р-н Новосибирской обл.), в контексте аналогичных случайных находок, которые рассматриваются как маркеры естественных границ ландшафтных зон в эпоху палеометалла и транспортных коридоров в бронзовом веке на юге Западной Сибири. Вислообушные топоры со слабовыраженным гребнем бытовали на этой территории в середине — второй пол…
A Bronze Age Shaft-Hole Axe from the Northwestern Baraba Forest-Steppe
This study introduces a crested shaft-hole axe found on the southern shore of Lake Maidan, Vengerovsky District, Novosibirsk Region. Such random finds are regarded as markers of Bronze Age landscape zones and transportation routes in southwestern Siberia. Shaft-hole axes with slight crests occurred on this territory from the mid to late 2nd millennium BC. In addition to such axes, several casting molds made of clay, stone or metal have been found…
Handles of Early Iron Age Cauldrons from Southwestern Siberia
Handles of Early Iron Age bronze cauldrons from southwestern Siberia are described with reference to their ritual meaning. Typological features, such as knobs, arcuate, or square shape, are relevant for dating. Two chronological groups are established: the Tagar (second half of the 1st millennium BC) and Xiongnu-Xianbei (late 1st millennium BC to early 1st millennium AD). The interpretation of handles depends on the context. At settlements (Turun…
Handles of Early Iron Age Cauldrons from Southwestern Siberia
Статья посвящена характеристике ручек котлов из цветного металла эпохи раннего железа, найденных на юге Западной Сибири, и интерпретации их ритуального значения. Типологические особенности ручек (выступы на поверхности, аркообразная или подквадратная форма) являются датирующими признаками котлов. Среди находок выделены две хронологические группы: тагарского (середина I тыс. до н.э. — конец I тыс. до н.э.) и хунно-сяньбийского (рубеж I тыс. до н.э…
Sections of the Early 18th Century Ditch at Fort Umrevinsky
Статья посвящена характеристике выявленных участков рва начала XVIII в. на территории Умревинского острога. Эти элементы фортификации являются маркерами определенного этапа развития военно-инженерного дела петровского времени (1694-1725 гг.) на юге Западной Сибири. Анализ особенностей конструкции наиболее ранних сохранившихся участков рвов позволяет рассмотреть проблему влияния европейской фортификации на отечественное оборонное зодчество Нового …
Changes in Wooden Defensive Structures at Fort Umrevinsky (Based on Archaeological and Written Sources)
Статья посвящена характеристике южной линии деревянных оборонительных сооружений (тына, помоста и двух башен) Умревинского острога первой трети XVIII в. по результатам археологических исследований. На основании полученных данных удалось проследить последовательное развитие этого пограничного пункта на протяжении 30 лет. Первоначально, в петровское время Умревинский острог представлял регулярное подпрямоугольное укрепление, огражденное тыновой сте…
Defense Constructions of Fort Umrevinsky (Based on 2002–2004 Archaeological Excavations)
Fort Umrevinsky is an example of the type of military architecture that reflects the early Russian colonization of the Upper Ob. The fort was built during the initial period of the Russian Empire's annexation of southwestern Siberia. The results of archaeological excavations indicate that the defense constructions of the fort include the outer and the inner walls, a moat, an angle tower, a palisade, and a platform. Two construction periods have b…
Barangol
The article outlines the results of a comprehensive study of human skeletal remains from the Barangol cemetery, Gorny Altai, representing the northern variant of the Pazyryk culture. Archaeological, demographic, craniometrical, osteometrical, and pathological findings are discussed. Results suggest that the Early Iron Age populations of the Lower and Middle Katun River and of southeastern Altai were related by origin, but differed in economic spe…
Sections of the Early 18th Century Ditch at Fort Umrevinsky
This article describes identified sections of an early 18th century ditch at Fort Umrevinsky in the Upper Ob Basin. Such protective structures mark a certain stage in the evolution of military engineering in the era of Peter the Great (1694–1725) in southwestern Siberia. The design of the earliest parts of the preserved ditches allows us to address the influence of European fortification on Early Modern Russian defensive architecture. Several fac…
Changes in Wooden Defensive Structures at Fort Umrevinsky (Based on Archaeological and Written Sources)
This study focuses on the southern line of wooden defensive structures (palisade, platform, and two towers) at Fort Umrevinsky (first third of the 18th century), based on the findings of archaeological excavations. Continuous development in this borderline fort are reconstructed over a period of 30 years. Initially, during the era of Peter the Great, Fort Umrevinsky was a regular, subrectangular fortification, enclosed by a palisade, and somewhat…
Triquestrums of the Scythian Period in the Northern Altai
Triquestrums, or ornaments of female headgear widely used in Gorny Altai and Tuva during the Scythian period no later than the 1st millennium BC are described. Most of them were found in unlooted Early Iron Age burials on the lower Katun River (Chultukov Log-1, Barangol-1 and 2). The decoration of triquestrums reflects all the diversity of Scythian-Siberian animal style. The fact that these ornaments are distributed in the northern Altai suggests…
Horn saddle ornaments dating to the Scythian period from the Ob plateau
A Bronze Age Shaft-Hole Axe from the Northwestern Baraba Forest-Steppe
This study introduces a crested shaft-hole axe found on the southern shore of Lake Maidan, Vengerovsky District, Novosibirsk Region. Such random finds are regarded as markers of Bronze Age landscape zones and transportation routes in southwestern Siberia. Shaft-hole axes with slight crests occurred on this territory from the mid to late 2nd millennium BC. In addition to such axes, several casting molds made of clay, stone or metal have been found…
The Cemetery at Fort Umrevinsky, in the Upper Ob Basin
After Fort (Ostrog) Umrevinsky had lost its defensive and administrative function, a cemetery emerged on its place. Excavations were carried out near the northwestern and southern palisade and in the center of the fort. Eighty-three graves, located mainly in the southwestern and central parts of the cemetery, were excavated. Among them were three ritual graves of newborns––one under the southwestern corner tower on the river bank, and two others …
A Half of a Metal Bipartite Mold of the Seima-Turbino Period From the Upper Irtysh Region
We describe a rare fi nd—part of a Middle Bronze Age bipartite metal chill mold from the Upper Irtysh basin, used for casting three socketed javelin heads of the Seima-Turbino type. The use of metal molds (chill molds) for bronze casting is a sophisticated technique that is rather rare even at the present time. Having originated in the Bronze Age, it was subsequently abandoned for a long time. Chill molds indicate an advanced and effi cient bronz…
The Umrevinsky Hoard of Silver Wire Kopecks from the Reign of Peter I
The Umrevinsky hoard, comprising 107 silver wire kopeks, was found in 2008 outside the walls of Fort (Ostrog) Umrevinsky, founded in 1703 on the right bank of the Ob River, 100 km north of Novosibirsk. This is the first time such a hoard was discovered in the Novosibirsk stretch of the Ob. Its composition is assessed with reference to archaeological fi ndings relating to Fort Umrevinsky. The chronology of the coins and of their deposition are eva…
Early Iron Age Surgical Technologies
Results of a science-based analysis of ante-mortem trepanation carried out by Scythian Age surgeons of Gorny Altai (4th–3rd centuries BC) are presented. Inductively coupled plasma-mass spectrometry, energy dispersive X-ray fluorescent analysis using synchrotron radiation, and magnetic resonance tomography were supplemented by micro- wear experiments. All trepanations were performed by scraping and included two stages. The bone tissue around the h…
Prestigious Afanasyevo Wooden Metal-bound Ware from the Sayan-altai
Metal plates, which probably decorated wooden vessels from Afanasyevo burials, are described. The plates bear punched designs and were clearly related to female symbolism, implying that they were probably used for ritual purposes. Their expansive distribution area from the lower Katun in Gorny Altai to the middle Yenisei in Khakassia points to the similarity between the two local variants of the Afanasyevo culture across the Altai-Sayan region. T…
Horn saddle ornaments dating to the Scythian period from the Ob plateau
Defense Constructions of Fort Umrevinsky (Based on 2002–2004 Archaeological Excavations)
Fort Umrevinsky is an example of the type of military architecture that reflects the early Russian colonization of the Upper Ob. The fort was built during the initial period of the Russian Empire's annexation of southwestern Siberia. The results of archaeological excavations indicate that the defense constructions of the fort include the outer and the inner walls, a moat, an angle tower, a palisade, and a platform. Two construction periods have b…
Specializations in Ancient Bone Carving
This paper discusses new advances in heritage site monitoring using a geo-spatial method for assessing the state of preservation of earthen architecture overtime as a preventive conservation measure. The proposed method leverages a comprehensive (quantitative–qualitative) approach that gathers multi-temporal data including environmental information collected by means of environmental loggers, qualitative vulnerability assessment of mud-brick wall…
Triquestrums of the Scythian Period in the Northern Altai
Triquestrums, or ornaments of female headgear widely used in Gorny Altai and Tuva during the Scythian period no later than the 1st millennium BC are described. Most of them were found in unlooted Early Iron Age burials on the lower Katun River (Chultukov Log-1, Barangol-1 and 2). The decoration of triquestrums reflects all the diversity of Scythian-Siberian animal style. The fact that these ornaments are distributed in the northern Altai suggests…
Prestigious Afanasyevo Wooden Metal-bound Ware from the Sayan-altai
Metal plates, which probably decorated wooden vessels from Afanasyevo burials, are described. The plates bear punched designs and were clearly related to female symbolism, implying that they were probably used for ritual purposes. Their expansive distribution area from the lower Katun in Gorny Altai to the middle Yenisei in Khakassia points to the similarity between the two local variants of the Afanasyevo culture across the Altai-Sayan region. T…
Early Iron Age Surgical Technologies
Results of a science-based analysis of ante-mortem trepanation carried out by Scythian Age surgeons of Gorny Altai (4th–3rd centuries BC) are presented. Inductively coupled plasma-mass spectrometry, energy dispersive X-ray fluorescent analysis using synchrotron radiation, and magnetic resonance tomography were supplemented by micro- wear experiments. All trepanations were performed by scraping and included two stages. The bone tissue around the h…
Alloy Composition in the Prestigious Silver Ware of the Old Turkic Period of Southern Siberia1
A series of silver artifacts (ornaments, belt sets, horse equipment, and utensils) belonging to the most dynamically developing categories of the material culture of the Old Turkic period were examined using X-ray spectral analysis. The study of silver alloy compositions of various prestigious objects from representative archaeological complexes of southern Siberia (Kudyrge, Tuekta, Katanda, Bertek-34, Yustyd, and Ur-Bedary) made it possible to s…
The Reconstruction of Cultural Processes in the Forest-Steppe Ob Basin During the Early Iron Age, Based on the Chronology of the Bystrovka Cemetery1
In the last third of the 1st millennium BC, contacts between populations of northern and southern origin in the forest-steppe Ob Basin were quite intense. Over several decades, science-based dating methods such as dendrochronology and radiocarbon analysis have been used to reconstruct these processes. As a result, several key cemeteries (Kamenny Mys, Bystrovka-1–3) were shown to be rather early, implying that contacts of native tribes of the fore…
Barangol
The article outlines the results of a comprehensive study of human skeletal remains from the Barangol cemetery, Gorny Altai, representing the northern variant of the Pazyryk culture. Archaeological, demographic, craniometrical, osteometrical, and pathological findings are discussed. Results suggest that the Early Iron Age populations of the Lower and Middle Katun River and of southeastern Altai were related by origin, but differed in economic spe…
The Medieval Metal Face from Novosibirsk Region as an Item of the Transcultural Material Complex in Western Siberia
Medieval bronze anthropomorphic faces from Western Siberia represent a special type among the metal flgurines. The purpose and chronology of the bronze faces have been the focus of debate in the archaeological literature. The Middle and Lower Ob regions in the northern parts of Western Siberia represent the main dispersal area of bronze faces. Discoveries of such faces beyond the stated area are quite few and are of considerable interest, not onl…
The Umrevinsky Hoard of Silver Wire Kopecks from the Reign of Peter I
The Umrevinsky hoard, comprising 107 silver wire kopeks, was found in 2008 outside the walls of Fort (Ostrog) Umrevinsky, founded in 1703 on the right bank of the Ob River, 100 km north of Novosibirsk. This is the first time such a hoard was discovered in the Novosibirsk stretch of the Ob. Its composition is assessed with reference to archaeological fi ndings relating to Fort Umrevinsky. The chronology of the coins and of their deposition are eva…
Modeling the Deformation of Bone Points
Bone and horn tools are a highly informative category of artifacts. Variously sized and shaped projectile (spear, harpoon, arrow, and dart) points spanning the periods from the Paleolithic to the recent centuries are of special importance. In this article, we review the most noteworthy directions in Western (European and North American) experimental research done in the 20th and early 21st century, outline the results of our own experiments in us…
Cross Pendants of Umrevinsky Ostrog
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A Golden Plaque of the Hellenistic Period From Zeravshan, Uzbekistan
A rare Sogdian golden plaque from Zeravshan, Uzbekistan, dating to the Hellenistic period, is described. Results of the sciencebased analysis are relevant to the assessment of sources of gold and technology. Stylistic analysis helps to establish cultural ties and contacts between various manufacturing centers of the Hellenistic era in Central Asia. In terms of decoration, the Zeravshan plaque is indirectly paralleled by several Early Iron Age tor…
Objects of the Infantile Hygiene of the Hunnu-Syanbian Time in the Gorny Altai in the Context of Cultural Relations
The Cemetery at Fort Umrevinsky, in the Upper Ob Basin
Buried Treasures and Hiding Places of Bronze Items with Iron Tools of the Hun-Sarmatian Age from the Middle Yenisei
Purpose. The troves and hiding places containing iron tools in the Middle Yenisei region are located in the Nazarovskaya, the Chulymo-Yeniseiskaya and the Minusinskaya hollows. The study of the artifacts from these trove and hiding places helps to date them, interpret and systematize such collections of items. We aimed at providing absolute and relative dating for the artifacts found. Results. It is possible to systematize the sites where the tro…
The Cemetery at Fort Umrevinsky, in the Upper Ob Basin
After Fort (Ostrog) Umrevinsky had lost its defensive and administrative function, a cemetery emerged on its place. Excavations were carried out near the northwestern and southern palisade and in the center of the fort. Eighty-three graves, located mainly in the southwestern and central parts of the cemetery, were excavated. Among them were three ritual graves of newborns––one under the southwestern corner tower on the river bank, and two others …
A Half of a Metal Bipartite Mold of the Seima-Turbino Period From the Upper Irtysh Region
We describe a rare fi nd—part of a Middle Bronze Age bipartite metal chill mold from the Upper Irtysh basin, used for casting three socketed javelin heads of the Seima-Turbino type. The use of metal molds (chill molds) for bronze casting is a sophisticated technique that is rather rare even at the present time. Having originated in the Bronze Age, it was subsequently abandoned for a long time. Chill molds indicate an advanced and effi cient bronz…
Medieval Hoard of Horse Harness from Khakassia
Findings of Early Hand Firearms from Southern Siberia
Purpose. This article is aimed at identifying early samples of hand firearms at different Siberian territories (Buriatia, the Upper Ob region). Such facts open new perspectives for studying and reconstructing the process of development and distribution of hand firearms in Northern Asia and helps identify regional peculiarities of this historic phenomenon. Results. One of the earliest firearms found on the territory of Southern Siberia is a bronze…
Gates of Siberian Ostrogs Based on Written and Archaeological Sources
Purpose. We summarized all written, graphic, archaeological and ethnographic data available on the structure of gates in Siberian ostrogs (fortresses) outside towers, “taras” and “gorodni”, their decoration, location within the ostrog walls and interaction with other structural elements of fortifications. Results. The gates of Siberian ostrogs were most vulnerable defensive elements in the fortress. Therefore, the driveway openings of the ostrogs…
Ceramic Protomes of Horses from Late Bronze to Early Iron Age Sites in the Southern Taiga Zone of Siberia
This study introduces ceramic protomes of horses from the southern taiga zone of Siberia: specifically, from the Middle Irtysh region (Novotroitskoye I) and the Angara region (Strelkovskoye-2). These artifacts are part of a crosscultural phenomenon. The analysis of their decorative elements suggests that they represent bridles. Close resemblance to Assyrian reliefs showing bridled horses makes it possible to identify the main details of Middle Ea…
Portrait” Medallions from the Kazym Hoard
We describe so-called portrait medallions and plaques with similar representations from a hoard found near Kyzym, the Beloyarsky District of the Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug-Yugra in the summer of 20I4. We introduce I7 artifacts cast of bronze and differing in shape and technological level. These fall into two groups in terms of quality. The principal questions addressed in the article are where, by whom, and based on which prototypes the Kazym …
Handles of Early Iron Age Cauldrons from Southwestern Siberia
Статья посвящена характеристике ручек котлов из цветного металла эпохи раннего железа, найденных на юге Западной Сибири, и интерпретации их ритуального значения. Типологические особенности ручек (выступы на поверхности, аркообразная или подквадратная форма) являются датирующими признаками котлов. Среди находок выделены две хронологические группы: тагарского (середина I тыс. до н.э. — конец I тыс. до н.э.) и хунно-сяньбийского (рубеж I тыс. до н.э…
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