Manufacturing Features of Hollow Shank of the Early Iron Age Celts from Central Siberia (technoligical classification)

At the end of the Late Bronze Age, with the transition to the Early Iron Age, the territory of the Western and Central Siberia became the place where previously unknown technology for manufacturing of hollow shank of Bronze Celts was formed. Analysis of more than 350 bronze Celts allows allocating within the blind sleeve manufacturing technology of two groups. The first group includes products molded in the “classical” technological style. This is a traditional production of the hollow shank of the Celts in bivalve molds with the core clamp to the top of the cooking chamber. The second group consists of the products which were casted with the use of the protrusions system inside the mold. These protrusions prevented the core from displacement. The systematization of objects by the fastening technology resulted in allocation of two methods of core retention: protrusions were fastened to the core or to the inside of the working chamber, or both on the core and the core of the mold (a combined method of fastening). The number of stops varies from one to four. According to classification data allocation was made of 19 different ways of the hollow shank manufacturing in the territory of Central Siberia in the early Iron Age

Archaeology · Bronze · Bronze Age · Composite material · Geography · Metallurgy · Mold · Ancient and Medieval Archaeology Studies · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies · Materials Science · Metallurgy and Cultural Artifacts · Psychology · Geology

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