An Assemblage from a Medieval Burial at Lake Parisento, Gydan Peninsula, the Arctic Zone of Western Siberia

• Published in: Archaeology, Ethnology & Anthropology of Eurasia
• Main Authors: A. V. Gusev, A. V. Plekhanov, Y. A. Podosenova, А. В. Гусев, А. В. Плеханов, Ю. А. Подосенова
• Other Authors: Авторы выражают признательность Н.В. Федоровой за консультации при подготовке публикации, а также антропологу Е.О. Святовой за проведенный анализ человеческих останков из погребения и реставратору ЯНО МВК им. И.С. Шемановского С.В. Питухину за работу с артефактами.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: Russian; English
• Published: IAET SB RAS 2019
• Subjects: рентгенофлуоресцентный анализ; Yamal-Nenets Autonomous Okrug; Middle Ages; metal bowl; bronze knife haft; scabbard; X-ray fl uorescence analysis; Ямало-Ненецкий автономный округ; эпоха Средневековья; металлическая чаша; бронзовая рукоять ножа и ножны; Arctic; Tazovsky; nenets; Nenets Autonomous Okrug; taiga; Tundra; Ненец*; Ямал*; Siberia
• Online Access: https://journal.archaeology.nsc.ru/jour/article/view/683; https://doi.org/10.17746/1563-0110.2019.47.2.069-076

The article introduces an assemblage from a child burial discovered in the central Gydan Peninsula, Tazovsky District, YamalNenets Autonomous Okrug. Little is known about the archaeological past of Arctic Western Siberia, and these fi nds are relevant to the study of the medieval period of that area. Medieval burials were studied only in the adjacent peninsula of Yamal. The discovery of the burial is described in detail. It was exposed owing to soil eolation. Artifacts were redeposited, and virtually the entire skeleton was missing. In a lump of soil stuck to the metal bowl, a few bone fragments and hair was found. Their analysis suggests that the individual was an infant aged 1–3. The assemblage includes an imported bronze bowl, a bronze haft of a knife, a scabbard, and a silver earring. The bowl, made of tin bronze, was apparently manufactured in eastern Iran or Central Asia in the 10th or 11th century. The haft and the scabbard, judging by the type and technology, belonged to a category of artifacts that were common in the Lower Ob basin, the southern Yamal, and the Ural in the late fi rst and early second millennia. On the basis of the results of X-ray fl uorescence analysis, we assess the chemical composition of the metal of which all those artifacts are made. The decorated fragment of a clay vessel is attributed to the Tiutey-Sale variant (800–1300 AD) of the Lower Ob culture. The totality of indicators suggests a date between 900 and 1100 AD. We conclude that the tundra areas of the Yamal and Gydan peninsulas were colonized by migrants from the northern taiga zone of Western Siberia. В статье вводится в научный оборот вещевой набор из детского погребения, обнаруженного в 2016 г. на территории Гыданского п-ова (Тазовский р-он Ямало-Ненецкого автономного округа). В условиях слабой археологической изученности арктических территорий западно-сибирской части Евразии эти материалы имеют большую ценность для понимания культурно-исторических процессов, протекавших здесь в эпоху Средневековья. Прежде захоронения ...