TECHNICAL AND MORPHOLOGICAL MODEL OF CHALCOLITHIC CHOPPING TOOLS OF THE RUSSIAN-KARELIAN TYPE FROM KARELIA AND THE UPPER VOLGA REGION

The article addresses chopping tools (axes, adzes, and gouges) from the Chalcolithic peatbog sites at Sakhtysh, Karelia, associated with the Volosovo culture. This group was first separated on the basis of technological and typological criteria, and their connection with the Volosovo component of th...

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Published in:Archaeology, Ethnology & Anthropology of Eurasia
Main Authors: A. Y. Tarasov, А. Ю. Тарасов
Other Authors: РНФ, проект «Онежское озеро и его водосбор: история геологического развития, освоение человеком и современное состояние», грант № 14-17-00766, 2014-2016
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:Russian
English
Published: IAET SB RAS 2017
Subjects:
сахтышские стоянки
axes
adzes
gouges
Volosovo culture
Asbestos Ware
Upper Volga
Karelia
Sakhtysh sites
Russian-Karelian type
волосовская культура
асбестовая керамика
Верхнее Поволжье
Карелия
karelian
Online Access:https://journal.archaeology.nsc.ru/jour/article/view/264
https://doi.org/10.17746/1563-0110.2017.45.2.026-034
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Summary:The article addresses chopping tools (axes, adzes, and gouges) from the Chalcolithic peatbog sites at Sakhtysh, Karelia, associated with the Volosovo culture. This group was first separated on the basis of technological and typological criteria, and their connection with the Volosovo component of these culturally and temporally heterogeneous sites was later verified with a detailed spatial analysis. The main traits of the Volosovo tools match those of the Russian-Karelian type, found in Russian Karelia at Chalcolithic sites with Asbestos and Porous Ware. The analysis of preforms suggests that their production followed a certain technological and typological model. The basic type of tool had a trapezoid or triangular cross-section, which was formed at the knapping stage and could then be transformed into a half-oval. Knapping was done with the punch technique, also evidenced by axes with a tetrahedral cross-section, widespread in the Neolithic of northern, central, and eastern Europe. The Volosovo chopping tools at sites with asbestos ware in the Upper Volga region and Karelia, then, follow the same single technological tradition. Its distribution area cannot be delimited thus far, but it could extend beyond that of the axes with a tetrahedral cross-section. Статья посвящена результатам исследования рубящих орудий (топоров, тесел), относящихся к волосовскому компоненту широко известных памятников сахтышского торфяника. Данная группа орудий и заготовок первоначально была выделена на основе технико-типологических критериев. После тщательного планиграфического анализа была установлена ее связь именно с волосовским компонентом сахтышских стоянок, содержащих разнокультурные и разновременные комплексы. Основные признаки отобранных таким образом изделий соответствуют орудиям т.н. русско-карельского типа в Карелии, характерным для энеолитических памятников с асбестовой и пористой керамикой. Анализ имеющихся заготовок свидетельствует о том, что они были изготовлены в соответствии с технико-морфологической моделью, ...

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