Exotic Materials of the Bone Artifacts from the Golden Horde Cities’ Excavations
The material of bone items discovered during the excavations of the Golden Horde time in Bolgar’s central part has been examined using the methodological technique worked out in the Laboratory of the Natural Scientific Methods, Archaeology Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences. The most commo...
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ftdoajarticles:oai:doaj.org/article:77d9202390614603849d093889ea6b08 2023-10-09T21:54:58+02:00 Exotic Materials of the Bone Artifacts from the Golden Horde Cities’ Excavations Liliya V. Yavorskaya 2018-06-01T00:00:00Z https://doi.org/10.15688/jvolsu4.2018.3.18 https://doaj.org/article/77d9202390614603849d093889ea6b08 RU rus Volgograd State University http://hfrir.jvolsu.com/index.php/en/component/attachments/download/1712 https://doaj.org/toc/1998-9938 https://doaj.org/toc/2312-8704 doi:10.15688/jvolsu4.2018.3.18 1998-9938 2312-8704 https://doaj.org/article/77d9202390614603849d093889ea6b08 Вестник Волгоградского государственного университета. Серия 4. История, регионоведение, международные отношения, Vol 23, Iss 3, Pp 206-217 (2018) the Golden Horde Bolgar Azak bone items bone material walrus tusk ivory craft workshops History of Russia. Soviet Union. Former Soviet Republics DK1-4735 International relations JZ2-6530 article 2018 ftdoajarticles https://doi.org/10.15688/jvolsu4.2018.3.18 2023-09-10T00:39:30Z The material of bone items discovered during the excavations of the Golden Horde time in Bolgar’s central part has been examined using the methodological technique worked out in the Laboratory of the Natural Scientific Methods, Archaeology Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences. The most commonly used material among the bone items studied was animal bone. Its share is about 60 %. Another 30 % are items made of antler. These types of materials for the items along with teeth of domestic and wild mammalia, bird and fish bone were of the local origin and acquired from the animals living in the forest-steppe. A number of items made of unusual imported bone material, large mammalia teeth, have been found. A pendant made of an inhabitant’s of the Eastern Siberia forests, male Siberian musk deer’s canine (lat. Moschus moschiferus) has been found. It was the first time walrus tusk (lat. Odobenus rosmarus) items were encountered at the Bolgar settlement. An arrowhead with an inscription and a bone seal, both made of this material, can be considered as items marking their owner’s high social status. The material of the well-known in the Golden Horde archaeology ornate bone quiver plaques from Bolgar and Azaq was attributed for the first time. It has been established that the central ornamental area plaques were made of the elephant tusk (lat. - Elephantidae) external layer. The discussed exotic materials were imported to the Golden Horde area from remote regions of Eurasia. It has been suggested and proven that this expensive and “exotic” material could be processed in well-equipped town workshops, which specialized not only in bone carving but also in glassblowing and jewelcrafting. Article in Journal/Newspaper Odobenus rosmarus Siberia walrus* Directory of Open Access Journals: DOAJ Articles Vestnik Volgogradskogo gosudarstvennogo universiteta. Serija 4. Istorija. Regionovedenie. Mezhdunarodnye otnoshenija 3 206 217 |
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The material of bone items discovered during the excavations of the Golden Horde time in Bolgar’s central part has been examined using the methodological technique worked out in the Laboratory of the Natural Scientific Methods, Archaeology Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences. The most commonly used material among the bone items studied was animal bone. Its share is about 60 %. Another 30 % are items made of antler. These types of materials for the items along with teeth of domestic and wild mammalia, bird and fish bone were of the local origin and acquired from the animals living in the forest-steppe. A number of items made of unusual imported bone material, large mammalia teeth, have been found. A pendant made of an inhabitant’s of the Eastern Siberia forests, male Siberian musk deer’s canine (lat. Moschus moschiferus) has been found. It was the first time walrus tusk (lat. Odobenus rosmarus) items were encountered at the Bolgar settlement. An arrowhead with an inscription and a bone seal, both made of this material, can be considered as items marking their owner’s high social status. The material of the well-known in the Golden Horde archaeology ornate bone quiver plaques from Bolgar and Azaq was attributed for the first time. It has been established that the central ornamental area plaques were made of the elephant tusk (lat. - Elephantidae) external layer. The discussed exotic materials were imported to the Golden Horde area from remote regions of Eurasia. It has been suggested and proven that this expensive and “exotic” material could be processed in well-equipped town workshops, which specialized not only in bone carving but also in glassblowing and jewelcrafting. |
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