scholarly journals ‘Yampil Inspirations’: A Study of the Dniester Cultural Contact Area at the Frontier of Pontic and Baltic Drainage Basins

2015 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 407-425 ◽  
Author(s):  
Svetlana V. Ivanova ◽  
Viktor I. Klochko ◽  
Aleksander Kośko ◽  
Marzena Szmyt ◽  
Gennadiy N. Toschev ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Bronze Age ◽  
Present State ◽  
Contact Area ◽  
Early Bronze Age ◽  
Forest Steppe ◽  
Drainage Basins ◽  
Cultural Contact ◽  
General Issue ◽  
State Of Research ◽  
The Baltic

Abstract The article presents the present state of research on the general issue of the Dniester Region of cultural contacts between communities settling the Baltic and Pontic drainage basins. Some five domains of research shall be brought to discussion in which it is possible to see fresh opportunities for archaeological study, on the basis of ‘Yampil studies’ on Dniester-Podolia (forest-steppe) barrow-culture ceremonial centres from the latter half of the 4th millennium and first half of the 3rd millennium BC. This relates to the peoples of the Eneolithic and the Early Bronze Age. In terms of topogenesis, embracing the Pontic-Tripolye, Yamnaya and Catacomb cultures, as well as Globular Amphora and Corded Ware in central prehistoric Europe.

scholarly journals Late Eneolithic and Bronze Age Prologue Pontic Societies. Forest-Steppe Middle Dniester and Prut Drainage Basins in the 4Th/3Rd-2Nd Millennium Bc: A History of Investigations

2015 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 7-39 ◽  
Author(s):  
Svetlana V. Ivanova ◽  
Gennadiy N. Toschev
Keyword(s):  
Bronze Age ◽  
Black Sea ◽  
Forest Steppe ◽  
Drainage Basins ◽  
Funerary Rituals ◽  
Black Sea Coast ◽  
History Of ◽  
State Of Research ◽  
The Bronze Age ◽  
Sea Coast

Abstract The paper presents a historiographic context helpful in the current investigations of the cultural contacts between the societies of the east and west of Europe in the borderland of Podolia and Moldova in the Late Eneolithic and the prologue of the Bronze Age. The focus is on the state of research (chiefly taxonomic and topogenetic) into the sequence of taxa in the age of early ‘barrow-building’, identified in the funerary rituals of societies settling the forest-steppe of the northwestern Black Sea Coast in the 4th/3rd-2nd millennium BC.

scholarly journals The Middle-Dniester Cultural Contact Area of Early Metal Age Societies. The Frontier of Pontic and Baltic Drainage Basins in the 4Th/3Rd-2Nd Millennium Bc.

2015 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 337-406
Author(s):  
Svetlana V. Ivanova ◽  
Gennadiy N. Toschev
Keyword(s):  
Contact Area ◽  
Drainage Basins ◽  
Baltic Basin ◽  
Cultural Contact ◽  
The North ◽  
Black Sea Coast ◽  
Research Questions ◽  
The Baltic ◽  
Metal Age ◽  
North Western

Abstract The paper discusses the taxonomy and autogenesis of the cycle of early ‘barrow cultures’ developed by the local communities of the Middle Dniester Area or, in a broader comparative context, the north-western Black Sea Coast, in the 4th/3rd-2nd millennium BC. The purpose of the study is to conduct an analytical and conceptual entry point to the research questions of the Dniester Contact Area, specifically the contacts between autochthonous ‘Late Eneolithic’ communities (Yamnaya, Catacomb and Babyno cultures) and incoming communities from the Baltic basin. The discussion of these cultures continues in other papers presented in this volume of Baltic-Pontic Studies.

Ritual position and “tattooing ” techniques in the funeral practices of the “barrow cultures” of the Pontic-Caspian steppe / forest steppe area. Porohy 3A, Yampil Region, Vinnytsia Oblast : specialist analysis research perspectives

2017 ◽  
Vol 22 (1) ◽  
pp. 64-90
Author(s):  
Dorota Lorkiewicz-Muszyńska ◽  
Julia Sobol ◽  
Jerzy J. Langer ◽  
Aleksander Kośko ◽  
Piotr Włodarczak ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Bronze Age ◽  
Human Remains ◽  
Early Bronze Age ◽  
Forest Steppe ◽  
Technical Aspects ◽  
Research Perspectives ◽  
Funeral Practices ◽  
Interdisciplinary Study

Abstract The present paper discusses the results of an interdisciplinary study of human remains in the form of two ulnae from a female skeleton found in grave 10, Porohy 3A site (Middle Dniester Area), dated to Early Bronze Age: 2650-2500 BC. The paper describes the technical aspects of applying the decorations revealed in the examination of the aforementioned bones.

scholarly journals DEVELOPMENT OF PRODUCTION MODELS OF IRONWORKING IN FOREST – STEPPE AND STEPPE SCYTHIA (BELSKOYE AND KAMENSKOYE FORTIFIED SETTLEMENTS)

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
В.И. Завьялов ◽  
Н.Н. Терехова
Keyword(s):  
Eastern Europe ◽  
Bronze Age ◽  
Early Bronze Age ◽  
Forest Steppe ◽  
Direct Influence ◽  
Ancient Greek ◽  
Production Models ◽  
Steppe Belt ◽  
Scythian Period ◽  
High Level

Скифский период время начала железного века в Восточной Европе, возникновения ремесленных центров. Наиболее яркими из них в лесостепной зоне является Бельское городище, в степной зоне Каменское городище. В результате археометаллографического исследования установлено, что технологический уровень развития железообработки в обоих центрах был высок. Но производственные модели существенно различались. На Бельском городище местное развитие кузнечного ремесла испытало воздействие высокоразвитого (вероятно, античного) производственного центра. На Каменском городище железообрабатывающее производство возникает под непосредственным влиянием кавказских производственных традиций. The Scythian period is the time of the Early Bronze Age in Eastern Europe and the emergence of craft centers. The Belskoye hillfort is the most impressive of such sites in the forest steppe belt, the same goes for the Kamenskoye fortified settlement located in the steppe belt. The archaeometallographic study found out that the technical level of ironworking development in the both centers had reached high level. However, production models differed substantially. Local blacksmith craft development at Belskoye was influenced by a highly developed (most likely, ancient Greek) production center. At Kamenskoye ironworking emerged under direct influence of Caucasian production traditions.

At the Dawn of Metallurgy: Bronze Casting Production of the Ob-Irtysh Forest-Steppe Population in the Early Bronze Age

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
I.A. Durakov ◽  
◽  
L.N. Mylnikova ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Bronze Age ◽  
Thermal Studies ◽  
Production Equipment ◽  
Early Bronze Age ◽  
Forest Steppe ◽  
Archaeological Methods ◽  
Technical Ceramics ◽  
Bronze Casting ◽  
Functional Purpose ◽  
Casting Production

Th e monograph is devoted to the problems of studying the bronze casting production of the Ust-Tartasskaya, the Odinovskaya and the Krotovskaya cultures of the Barabinsk forest-steppe Early Bronze Age. Th e work was carried out within the framework of an integrated analytical approach, which includes the use of traditional archaeological methods and data obtained as a result of the application of natural sciences methods. A method for determining the functional purpose of technical ceramics fragments is proposed. Th e archaeological context of the fi nds is described in detail and the characteristics of the bronze casting sites are given. Products of the foundry set of production equipment are represented by fragments of nozzles, molds and crucibles. For each item, full descriptions, analogies, the results of binocular analysis of molding masses and thermal studies are given. An assessment to the cultural, chronological and innovative traditions of bronze casting in certain periods of the Bronze Age is given. Th e book is addressed to specialists-archaeologists, ethnographers and everyone who is interested in the most ancient industries among the population of Siberia.

Foundries at Stary Tartas-5—an Early Bronze Age Site in the Baraba Forest-Steppe

2020 ◽  
Vol 48 (4) ◽  
pp. 84-94
Author(s):  
I. A. Durakov ◽  
◽  
L. N. Mylnikova ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Bronze Age ◽  
Early Bronze Age ◽  
Forest Steppe

В статье представлены результаты исследования участков со следами бронзолитейного производства на поселении одиновской культуры Старый Тартас-5 в Барабинской лесостепи. Рассмотрены два участка: один — на территории жилища № 1 — с очагом и ямами, расположенными вблизи теплотехнического устройства, другой — за пределами этого жилища — с плавильным горном. Даются характеристика объектов и информация об археологическом контексте находок. В работе приведены полные описания каждого предмета литейного комплекта производственной оснастки, аналоги этих находок, результаты бинокулярного анализа формовочных масс. На основе данных термогравиметрических исследований установлены функциональная принадлежность обломков технической керамики и кратность использования различных предметов литейного комплекта. Отмечено, что тигли в виде прямостенных баночек известны только по одному целому изделию из погр. № 286 могильника Тартас-1; в составе поселенческих комплексов одиновской культуры они ранее не встречались. Определены специализация жилища № 1 указанного поселения на бронзолитейном производстве и специфика организации данного производства как индивидуально-семейного. Подчеркнуто, что традиции бронзового литья одиновской культуры сохранились в традициях кротовской культуры и пополнились новациями: типичные для одиновской культуры тигли в виде овальных чашечек носители кротовской культуры в соответствии с особенностями своего производственного процесса делали с более толстым дном. Одиновские комплексы Барабинской лесостепи датируются в пределах первой половины III тыс. до н.э. Сделан вывод о том, что свидетельства бронзолитейного производства, выявленные на памятнике Старый Тартас-5, являются самыми ранними для данного региона, уровень этого производства у носителей одиновской культуры был высоким.

Mollusc-based paleoecological investigations of the Late Copper — Early Bronze Age earth mounds (kurgans) on the Great Hungarian Plain

2013 ◽  
Vol 5 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Gábor Szilágyi ◽  
Pál Sümegi ◽  
Dávid Molnár ◽  
Szilvia Sávai
Keyword(s):  
Bronze Age ◽  
Dominant Species ◽  
Black Soil ◽  
Soil Horizon ◽  
Early Bronze Age ◽  
Forest Steppe ◽  
Original Surface ◽  
Great Hungarian Plain ◽  
Chernozem Soils ◽  
Hungarian Plain

AbstractThe malacological material of the mound bodies (kurgans) of the Great Hungarian Plain indicates a mixed vegetation of dry and humid environments, developed on a mosaic of alkaline and chernozem soils in the period of the construction of the kurgan. The malacofauna that evolved in the upper soil horizon of the mound indicates the extremely dry environmental conditions of steppes, charaterized by the dominance of thermoxerophilous species. Dominant species of this kurgan are Chondrula tridens, Helicopsis striata, Granaria frumentum and Cepaea vindobonensis. The species composition shows that there are differences in the malacofauna of the Danube-Tisa Interfluves region compared to that of the lowlands east of River Tisza, indicated by the higher dominance of Granaria frumentum and Helicopsis striata in the former region. Following the construction of the kurgans an island-like, dry habitat developed on their surface, covered by black soil and populated by a steppe fauna, the composition of which is comparable mostly with the mollusc fauna of loess steppes and forest steppe, irrespectively of the floodplain or wind-blown sand character of the original surface.

An arena for cultural contact: Paphlagonia (north-central Turkey) through prehistory

2007 ◽  
Vol 57 ◽  
pp. 25-34 ◽  
Author(s):  
Roger Matthews
Keyword(s):  
Bronze Age ◽  
Raw Materials ◽  
Early Bronze Age ◽  
Upper Palaeolithic ◽  
Apparent Absence ◽  
North Central ◽  
Cultural Contact ◽  
Long Time ◽  
Time Periods ◽  
Central Turkey

AbstractThe results from five seasons of extensive and intensive survey in north-central Turkey, Project Paphlagonia, are here considered in relation to the prehistory of the region and the broader geographical scene. While the evidence remains limited and patchy it is possible to discern some clear patterns through these long time-periods, which in some respects match those of other regions of Turkey and beyond. They include: a strong Middle Palaeolithic presence; no detectable Upper Palaeolithic or Epi-Palaeolithic sites; an apparent absence of Neolithic settlement; a Chalcolithic settlement pattern that appears to be related to exploitation of raw materials of the region, and; a massive increase in settlement through the centuries of the Early Bronze Age, with evidence for fortification, cemeteries and strong connections to regions well beyond north-central Turkey.

Mycenaean Greece and Europe: the Evidence of Bronze Tools and Implements

1975 ◽  
Vol 41 ◽  
pp. 183-202 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anthony Harding
Keyword(s):  
Bronze Age ◽  
Recent Work ◽  
Intrinsic Value ◽  
General Purpose ◽  
Early Bronze Age ◽  
Current Debate ◽  
Local Production ◽  
Personal Use ◽  
The Baltic ◽  
The Bronze Age

The renewed controversy over the question of Mycenaean trade with ‘barbarian’ Europe (Renfrew 1968; Branigan 1970, 1972; etc.) has emphasised the need for a thorough study of the various classes of evidence involved. Recent work on the faience beads of Early Bronze Age Europe (Harding 1971; Harding and Warren 1973) has tended to show that local production is likely, at any rate in continental Europe, while a study of the amber trade to Mycenaean Greece (Harding and Hughes-Brock 1974) has shown that two main periods of trade with the Baltic are likely, the first, via Wessex, in the sixteenth/fifteenth centuries B.C., the second around 1200, down the Adriatic. Here I should like to tackle another group of material, bronze tools and implements, some of which have been used (or mis-used) in the current debate. I include here agricultural, wood-working, metallurgical and general-purpose tools; razors and tweezers are omitted, and will be discussed elsewhere, as will ornaments and objects of personal use. Knives are included, but daggers await examination together with other weapons.Tools and implements have not often been found as items of trade in the Bronze Age Aegean. They have intrinsic value as metal, it is true, but they are usually heavy and bulky, and most easily susceptible of adaptation to local needs by local smiths. Accidental loss and intentional imitation are correspondingly less likely.

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