THE RECTANGULAR IRON-SMELTING FURNACES OF GORNY ALTAI: THE PROBLEM OF ORIGIN AND CHRONOLOGY

2021 ◽  
Vol 27 ◽  
pp. 158-167
Author(s):  
VODYASOV E. ◽  
◽  
ZAITCEVA O. ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Central Asia ◽  
Field Work ◽  
Altai Mountains ◽  
Radiocarbon Dates ◽  
Iron Smelting ◽  
Previous Time ◽  
Gorny Altai ◽  
Sudden Appearance ◽  
Southeastern Altai

The article raises the questions related to the appearance of unique rectangular box-shape furnaces in the Altai mountains. These furnaces were the largest iron-smelting construction in Siberia and Central Asia. Archaeological field work carried out in 2018-2020 coupled with the series of radiocarbon dates made it possible to establish that furnaces of this type appeared in the Southeastern Altai not in the era of the Turkic Khaganates, as it was previously thought, but in a previous time within the 3rd-5th centuries AD. The article discusses the design and productivity of the box-shape furnaces. It is hypothesized that the similar in shape Xiongnu pottery kilns type could have been a prototype of large rectangular structures of the box-shape linear furnaces. Radiocarbon analyzes have proven the synchronicity of the Xiongnu pottery kilns and the rectangular furnaces. The sudden disappearance of the box-shape furnaces in the Altai Mountains in the 7th-8th centuries AD and the same sudden appearance of the similar furnaces in Japan in the same period is explained by the possible migration of smelters in the era of the Second East Turkic Khaganate. Keywords: archaeometallurgy, iron-smelting furnaces, Gorny Altai, Xiongnu-Xianbei time

scholarly journals NEW DATA ON IRON-SMELTING SITES IN THE KUEKTANAR AND TURGUN VALLEYS, SOUTHEASTERN ALTAI

2018 ◽  
Vol 46 (2) ◽  
pp. 90-99 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. R. Agatova ◽  
R. K. Nepop ◽  
I. Y. Slyusarenko ◽  
V. S. Panov
Keyword(s):  
Radiocarbon Dating ◽  
Erosion Rate ◽  
Iron Ore ◽  
Larix Sibirica ◽  
River Bank ◽  
Radiocarbon Dates ◽  
Metallurgical Production ◽  
Iron Smelting ◽  
Southeastern Altai ◽  
Russian Altai

This paper presents the fi ndings relating to iron-smelting furnaces in the Kuektanar and Turgun valleys, which were part of the Chuya–Kurai metallurgical province in the Russian Altai, and are undergoing rapid erosion. On the Chuya, downstream of the Kuektanar mouth, hitherto unknown and completely eroded remains of furnaces were discovered. Radiocarbon dating of charcoal fragments from bloomeries at Kuektanar-1 and 2 and Turgun-1, using scintillation and AMS techniques, suggests the use of trees that grew in 5th–10th centuries AD as a fuel for metallurgical production. Dates of charcoal relating to the same iron-smelting event differ by over 300 years, probably because various parts of adult larches (Larix sibirica Ledeb.) were used. Samples of uncharred bark in bloomery 2 at Kuektanar-1 suggest that the last smelting occurred in AD 655–765. The totality of radiocarbon dates makes it possible to conclude that the bloomeries functioned during the Old Turkic period. The proximity of iron ore sources and the abundance of forest vegetation account for the wide use of iron-smelting by the nomads in the region. The erosion of the river bank where the furnaces are located allowed us to assess the erosion rate since their construction—ca 0.5 cm per year.

The Elachistidae of southern Siberia and Central Asia, with descriptions of five new species (Lepidoptera)¹

1992 ◽  
Vol 3 (4) ◽  
pp. 177-194 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lauri Kaila
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Central Asia ◽  
Baikal Region ◽  
Tianshan Mountains ◽  
Previous Literature ◽  
Altai Mountains ◽  
Southern Siberia

The Elachistidae material collected during the joint Soviet-Finnish entomological expeditions to the Altai mountains, Baikal region and Tianshan mountains of the previous USSR is listed. Previous literature dealing with the Elachistidae in Central Asia is reviewed. A total of 40 species are dealt with, including descriptions of five new species: Stephensia jalmarella sp. n. (Altai), Elachista baikalica sp. n. (Baikal), E. talgarella sp. n. (southern Kazakhstan), E. esmeralda sp. n. (southern Kazakhstan) and E. filicornella sp. n. (southern Kazakhstan). The previously unknown females of E. bimaculata Parenti, 1981 and Biselachista zonulae Sruoga, 1992 are described.

Khandut revisited: Monuments, shrines, and newly discovered rock art in Wakhan District

Afghanistan ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 282-301
Author(s):  
John Mock
Keyword(s):  
Central Asia ◽  
Rock Art ◽  
Field Work ◽  
Present Condition ◽  
Current Article

In 1972, a brief article titled “Khandud, Village de la Vallée du Wakhan” appeared in Afghanistan 25. The subsequent decades of conflict precluded any follow-up research in Wakhan. The current article, based on field work from 2004 to 2016, examines the present condition of the sites described in 1972, offers a revised analysis of their significance, and introduces newly discovered rock art that connects Wakhan with the Saka culture of Central Asia and illustrates indigenous traditions of the Pamir-Hindukush ethnolinguistic region.

Radial growth responses of two dominant conifers to climate in the Altai Mountains, Central Asia

2021 ◽  
Vol 298-299 ◽  
pp. 108297
Author(s):  
Jian Kang ◽  
Shaowei Jiang ◽  
Jacques C. Tardif ◽  
Hanxue Liang ◽  
Shaokang Zhang ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Central Asia ◽  
Radial Growth ◽  
Altai Mountains ◽  
Growth Responses

scholarly journals STUDY OF GEOLOGICAL SECTIONS OF THE ORDOVIK AGE OF GORNY ALTAI

2021 ◽  
Vol 6 ◽  
pp. 109-115
Author(s):  
Danil A. Ilyin ◽  
Irina P. Kokorina
Keyword(s):  
Taxonomic Composition ◽  
Geological Survey ◽  
Altai Mountains ◽  
Siberian Branch ◽  
Russian Academy Of Sciences ◽  
Gorny Altai ◽  
The Future ◽  
Lithological Composition ◽  
Academy Of Sciences ◽  
Faunistic Composition

The article deals with the study of geological sections of the Ordovic age in Gorny Altai. On the territory of the Altai Mountains, outcrops of rocks of the Ordovic age were found. As a result of the work on the sections, the lithological composition was analyzed and the fauna was collected, the taxonomic composition of which was then determined in the Paleozoic laboratory of the Institute of Geological and Geological Development of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences. On the basis of the data of geological survey, mapping of the territory, the results of the study of geological sections, their lithology and faunistic composition, it is planned to create an interactive cartographic service in the future.

NEW RADIOCARBON DATES FROM ARCHAEOLOGICAL SITES IN PARTS OF IGBOLAND, SOUTHEASTERN NIGERIA

Radiocarbon ◽  
2022 ◽  
pp. 1-16
Author(s):  
Kenechukwu Chidiogo Daniel ◽  
Anselm Maduabuchi Ibeanu ◽  
Jacinta Uchenna Ikegwu ◽  
Emuobosa Akpo Orijemie
Keyword(s):  
Archaeological Sites ◽  
Human Settlement ◽  
Human Occupation ◽  
Southeastern Nigeria ◽  
Radiocarbon Dates ◽  
Iron Smelting ◽  
Subsistence Patterns ◽  
Early Human

ABSTRACT This paper presents new results of radiocarbon (14C) ages from archaeological sites in northern Igboland. The study was designed to shed more light on early human occupation and activities in the study area based on sediments from cave and iron-smelting sites. The approach consisted of ethnographic, archaeological, palynological, and slag analyses; these were complemented with 14C dates. The technology adopted as well as the paleoenvironmental conditions that prevailed during the period of human settlement in both sites was revealed. These data, complemented by 14C dates, highlight the human behavioral and subsistence patterns within the region and are comparable to those from similar sites in southeastern Nigeria.

A Vendian-Cambrian Island Arc System of the Siberian Continent in Gorny Altai (Russia, Central Asia)

2002 ◽  
Vol 5 (4) ◽  
pp. 781-800 ◽  
Author(s):  
M.M. Buslov ◽  
T. Watanabe ◽  
I.Yu. Saphonova ◽  
K. Iwata ◽  
A. Travin ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Central Asia ◽  
Island Arc ◽  
Gorny Altai

A new species of Herminium (Orchidoideae, Orchidaceae) from Nepal

Phytotaxa ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 98 (1) ◽  
pp. 23 ◽  
Author(s):  
BHAKTA BAHADUR RASKOTI
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Central Asia ◽  
Field Work ◽  
Plant Resources ◽  
Alpine Regions ◽  
Central Nepal ◽  
A New Species

  Herminium Linnaeus (1758: 251) is a genus of about 30 species, which are collectively distributed mainly inthe Himalayas with few species extending into Europe, central Asia, and southeastern Asia (Pridgeon et al. 2001, Pearce & Cribb 2002, Chen et al. 2009). The genus is characterized by its terrestrial or rarely epiphytic habitat, a concave lip base that is not auriculate and does not have any glands, a lip 2–3 (–5) that is lobed, not spurred and a bilobed stigma with an obscure rostellum. Nepal has nine species of Herminium, which are distributed in the subtropical to alpine regions (Hara et al. 1978, Banerji 1984, Banerji & Pradhan 1984, Press et al. 2000, Department of Plant Resources 2001, Rajbhandari & Dahal 2004; Rajbhandari & Baral 2010). During field work in 2012 in Chandragiri, central Nepal, another species of Herminium was collected, the characteristics of which do not match with any previously described species of the genus. It is illustrated and described here as new.

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