scholarly journals Genesis of Nomadic Cattle Breeding in Mongolia and Southern Trans-Baikal Territory: Prerequisites and Reasons

2020 ◽  
pp. 148-162
Author(s):  
Aleksandr D. Tsybiktarov
Keyword(s):  
Bronze Age ◽  
Farm Animals ◽  
Way Of Life ◽  
Economic Activities ◽  
Cattle Breeding ◽  
Archaeological Cultures ◽  
Metal Age ◽  
The Bronze Age ◽  
Adaptive Abilities ◽  
Continental Climate

The article reveals the prerequisites and reasons for development of nomadic cattle breeding in the paleo-economy of the nomadic population of Mongolia and southern Trans-Baikal Territory. The article analyses the changes that occurred in the economic activities of the archaeological cultures of the region during the Bronze Age. The complex type of economy of the Selenga-Daurian culture of the Eneolithic-Early Bronze Age is characterised, which combined the branches of the producing and appropriating economy. The sedentary lifestyle of representatives of the Selenga-Daurian culture is grounded. The nomadic nature of the economy and lifestyle of the population of the culture of tiled graves of the developed Late Bronze Age is shown. The change of cattle breeding in the local type to nomadic cattle breeding is associated with aridisation of the climate which began at the end of the 3rd millennium BC and ended in the middle of 2nd millennium BC. The economic, biological and natural-climatic prerequisites for the transition to nomadism are highlighted including the accumulation of experience in the field of cattle breeding in the Early Metal Age, the adaptive abilities of farm animals for keeping in the open air, changes in the natural environment in the direction of climate aridisation and xerophytisation of vegetation steppes. The reason for the transition to nomadic cattle breeding was the establishment of severe continental climate with hot, dry summers and winters with little snow in the region in the middle of the 2nd millennium BC. The arid climate worsened the conditions for farming, hunting, fishing and gathering. The small thickness of the snow cover in winter made it possible to switch to year-round keeping of animals on pasture with periodic change of pastures as they were depleted. As a result, the economy of the steppe population was reorganised into nomadic cattle breeding and a mobile nomadic way of life of the population was formed

scholarly journals Archaeological Studies of the Bronze Age Artifacts in Western Tajikistan

2019 ◽  
pp. 163-177
Author(s):  
Юрий Кутимов ◽  
Yuriy Kutimov
Keyword(s):  
Material Culture ◽  
Bronze Age ◽  
Economic Activities ◽  
Cattle Breeding ◽  
Population Groups ◽  
Life Styles ◽  
Development Levels ◽  
Culture Development ◽  
The Bronze Age

During the Bronze Age ancient agricultural and cattle-breeding tribes with different life styles, economic activities and material culture development levels reclaimed the territory of current Tajikistan. Archaeological studies (2012-2014, 2017) of the Western Hissar Valley (Tajikistan) revealed new data indicating active cultural contacts between various population groups in the Bronze Age.

scholarly journals Fishery in the Tobol-Ishim interfluve in the neolithic and early metal age

2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (4) ◽  
pp. 182-192
Author(s):  
Viktor Alekseevich Zakh
Keyword(s):  
Water Level ◽  
Bronze Age ◽  
Iron Age ◽  
Life Support ◽  
Hydrological Regime ◽  
Economic Activities ◽  
Deep Foundation ◽  
Metal Age ◽  
North Western

Landscapes of the Tobol-Ishim interfluve were not stable in the Holocene and varied from forests and drowned floodplains at the beginning of the V and III millennia BC to steppificated territories with a lowered water level at the beginning of the Atlantic Period and in the middle of the Subboreal Period, which determined the main types of economic activities, one of them was fishing. Changes in hydrological regime of water bodies influenced the methods of fishing, including the use of different traps. Thus, in the Neolithic, when the water level decreased, the location of settlements in the system river-creek-lake (for example, Mergen 6), a large number of fish bones, bone harpoons, fishing spears, fishing tackles for catching pike and a total absence of plummets were indicative of individual fishing for large fish and, perhaps, of stop net fishery, which was facilitated by a decrease in the width of watercourses and tombolos. Stop net (stake net) fishery led to a settled lifestyle of the population, collective activities and the emergence of long-term settlements with deep foundation pits of dwellings. When the water level in rivers and lakes increased and floods became more frequent, the life support system changed, the population began to develop coasts more widely, its mobility increased, and they started to build framed above-ground dwellings. Following those changes, biconic, cigar-shaped, and corniculate plummets emerged in the Tobol River Basin and on the adjacent western and north-western territories in the III and early II millennium BC. When the water level was high, it was efficient to fish using traps, seines and, probably, nets, although the latter could also be used in drive hunting for shedding geese and ducks. Subrectangular plummets with one or two ties for fastening, and disk-shaped plummets with a tie in the center had been prevailing since the beginning of the II millennium BC; they existed until the first third of the I millennium BC. This period, the transition time from the Bronze Age to the Early Iron Age, is characterized by the absence of clay plummets, while there are large accumulations of fish scales and bones in the settlement layers. We can suppose that the population of that time (local Late Bronze Age population, mixed with northern migrants who made utensils with cross ornamentation) switched from net fishing to stop net fishing.

scholarly journals Emberi ábrázolás a Változások korában, 4000 és 2000 BC között

2014 ◽  
pp. 113-144
Author(s):  
Tünde Horváth
Keyword(s):  
Bronze Age ◽  
Middle Age ◽  
Late Phase ◽  
Early Bronze Age ◽  
Copper Age ◽  
Cultural Impacts ◽  
Middle Bronze Age ◽  
Archaeological Cultures ◽  
The Bronze Age

Our survey should by necessity begin earlier, from the close of the Middle Age Copper Age, and should extend to much later, at least until the onset of the Middle Bronze Age, in order to identify and analyse the appearance and spread of the cultural impacts affecting the Baden complex, their in-teraction with neighbouring cultures and, finally, their decline or transformation. Discussed here will be the archaeological cultures flourishing between 4200/4000 and 2200/2000 BC, from the late phase of the Middle Copper Age to its end (3600 BC), the Late Copper Age (ending in 2800 BC), the transi-tion between the Copper Age and the Bronze Age (ending in 2600 BC), and the Early Bronze Age 1–3 (ending in 2000 BC), which I have termed the Age of Transformation.

FUNERAL CEREMONIES AMONG THE LIVESTOCK TRIBES AND THEIR CHARACTERISTICS

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
pp. 104-108
Author(s):  
Safarali Kushakov ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Central Asia ◽  
Bronze Age ◽  
Cattle Breeding ◽  
Human Burials ◽  
The Bronze Age

In this article, we can learn about one of the greatest features of the tradition of human burials in the southern and bordering regions of Uzbekistan, and about its features in the monuments of the Bronze Age cattle-breeding tribes of Northern Bactria.At the same time, the emergence of early urban states in Central Asia, especially in ancient Bactria and Margiana, was considered

Formation of Ethnocultural Tourism Clusters in Russia-Kazakhstan Borderline Territory

2018 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
pp. 771
Author(s):  
O. L. BANСEROVA ◽  
A. R. KASIMOVA
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Bronze Age ◽  
Material Objects ◽  
Intangible Cultural Heritage ◽  
Cattle Breeding ◽  
Early 21St Century ◽  
Tourism Potential ◽  
The Bronze Age ◽  
Regions Of Russia ◽  
Private Farm

The purpose of the paper is to explore the region’s tourism potential and to identify items of material and intangible cultural heritage for the formation of ethnocultural centers and ethnocultural clusters. The paper outlines the concept of cultural heritage and its role for ethnocultural tourism. Stages of evolution of the concept are described starting from the 1980-ies when it referred only to material objects, particularly, historical and architectural monuments and sites, and up to the inclusion of intangible items in the early 21st century, which was marked by interest in the material processing methods, crafts, household and economic patterns, rites and customs of different ethnic groups. The study is focused on the borderline regions of Russia and Kazakhstan where the patterns of local peoples are most distinctive. As a result of the research, a map of ethnic settlements in the discussed region was drawn, and it was established that husbandry relied on household and distant-pasture cattle breeding, which emerged in the territory as early as the Bronze Age. The planning structure of a private farm, its elements and functional interrelation of buildings and production structures were determined, and the conclusion was drawn that, given the sustained ancient traditional household practices, the researched settlements were of interest for tourism and could serve as sites of ethnocultural tourism and provide a ground for the formation of ethnocultural establishments.

scholarly journals “STEPPE CORRIDORS” OF ALAKUL PASTORALISTS: ISOTOPE AND PALEOBOTANICAL STUDIES AT THE CHEBARKUL III SETTLEMENT

2021 ◽  
Vol 72 (3) ◽  
pp. 26-38
Author(s):  
Polina S. Ankusheva ◽  
◽  
Irina P. Alaeva ◽  
Sergey A. Sadykov ◽  
Yan Chuen Ng ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Bronze Age ◽  
Forest Steppe ◽  
Open Spaces ◽  
Cattle Breeding ◽  
Δ13c And Δ15n ◽  
Plant Seeds ◽  
Isotopic Studies ◽  
Northern Territories ◽  
The Bronze Age

The paper is devoted to the determination of the preferred ecological niche of the Alakul population of the forest-steppe Trans-Urals and considers the problem of Andronovo colonization in the northern direction. Radiocarbon dating, paleobotanical and isotopic studies were carried out based on the Chebarkul III settlement materials. The Alakul period of the settlement dates back to the 18th–17th centuries BC. The species composition of plants from the settlement’s cultural layer is similar to the Bronze Age steppe settlements of the Southern Trans-Urals and mainly represented by plant seeds of the meadow and ruderal zones with a minimum amount of forest and the absence of domesticated plants. The δ13C, δ15N values in the livestock bones reflect the diet consisting of C3 photosynthesis type plants with a small proportion of C4 plants. The decreased values of δ13C and δ15N in comparison with the Late Bronze Age steppe sites in the Ural-Kazakhstan region may indicate a high moisture content of the settlement’s pastures. The data obtained indicate the preservation of the settled cattle-breeding model, which is typical for the steppe Alakul sites, with cattle grazing in the surrounding territories and the possible preparation of fodder for the winter. The development of northern territories by the Alakul populations took place in the landscape zones habitual for the steppe population: with the presence of open spaces, wide meadows for grazing animals, and preparing forage, as well as forests. For this reason, the so-called Chebarkul steppe corridor was also populated, capturing the shore of the lake of the same name, on which the settlement under study is located.

scholarly journals LETHAL HEAD TRAUMAS OF THE BRONZE AGE (NEW METHODS OF STUDY)

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
М.Б. Медникова
Keyword(s):  
Bronze Age ◽  
Population Group ◽  
Mass Grave ◽  
3D Reconstructions ◽  
New Methods ◽  
Middle Volga ◽  
Visualization Techniques ◽  
Archaeological Cultures ◽  
Estimate Form ◽  
The Bronze Age

Современные методы радиологии и визуализации сегодня вносят существенный вклад в изучение смертельных ранений у представителей разных археологических культур. В эпоху бронзы самым грозным оружием стал боевой топор. Настоящая статья посвящена применению метода микротомографии в описании некоторых впервые найденных травм на черепах из Пепкинского коллективного захоронения (абашевская археологическая культура, Среднее Поволжье). Наши данные позволяют оценить некоторые последствия применения боевых топоров и их тип. Трехмерные виртуальные реконструкции несквозных повреждений свода черепа, причиненных боевыми топорами, позволяют определить форму ударного края, которая имеет диагностическую ценность. Одновременно производились эксперименты по использованию боевого топора абашевского типа. Получены отпечатки в пластике ударов под разными углами. После микротомографии сопоставлялись 3D-виртуальные изображения ударного края оружия и травм черепа. Главный вывод данной работы заключается в констатации гибели пепкинских мужчин под ударами абашевских боевых топоров. Это означает существование возможного внутриплеменного конфликта в этой культурной общности. Today modern radiological and visualization techniques make great impact on the study of lethal wounds among representatives of different archaeological cultures. Battle axes became the most dangerous weapon of the Bronze Age. The current paper is devoted to description of some newly discovered cranial injuries from Pepkino mass grave (Abashevo archaeological culture, the Middle Volga area) with use of microtomography. Our data help to evaluate some consequences of battle axes use and evaluate its type. 3D reconstructions of some non exit wounds caused by axes allow estimate form of striking edge, which seems to be diagnostic. At the same time we experimented using the battle axe of the Abashevo type. Impressions of the strikes made at different angles were obtained on the plastic. After microCT were made scanning 3D virtual images of the weapon striking edge and the skull traumas were compared. The main conclusion of the analysis is that the Pepkino males were killed by Abashevo battle axes. This implies a possible conflict within the population group of this archaeological culture.

scholarly journals An Eneolithic pottery hoard from Turnišče, NE Slovenia

2018 ◽  
Vol 45 ◽  
pp. 108-119
Author(s):  
Alenka Tomaž
Keyword(s):  
Bronze Age ◽  
Economic Activities ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Bronze Age

“Pottery depot”, as a buried group of vessels, is well known term within the Bronze Age archaeology however in Neolithic and Eneolithic archaeologies the term comes into attention only rarely. In article we are discussing the case-study of Pit PO 118, discovered at site Turnišče. In the past, Pit PO 118 has been interpreted as potential storage pit or as remnants of past economic activities. In article we are considering the possibilities of its different interpretation.

THE QUESTION OF THE ORIGIN OF CELTS WITH ON THE SIDE EARS OF THE BOLSHELOZHSKY TYPE

2021 ◽  
Vol 27 ◽  
pp. 212-219
Author(s):  
KOVALEVSKY S. ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Eastern Europe ◽  
Bronze Age ◽  
Iron Age ◽  
Western Siberia ◽  
Transition Time ◽  
Late Bronze Age ◽  
Significant Similarity ◽  
New Research ◽  
Archaeological Cultures ◽  
The Bronze Age

The article is devoted to the consideration of the origin and dating of celts with on the side ears, which originate from the settlements of the Late Bronze Age and transition time from the Bronze Age to the Iron Age in the Kazakh steppe and south of Western Siberia (some of which are accidental finds) and are identified by most experts to be antiquities of the Sargarinsko-Aleekseyevskaya, Begazy-Dandybayevskaya, Irmenskaya and Bolsherechenskaya cultures. Previously, such celts were dated to the beginning of the first millennium, BC. At present, there have been certain quantitative and qualitative changes. In particular, the fund of archaeological resources for the Late Bronze Age and transition time from the Bronze Age to the Iron Age had been significantly replenished, and new research concepts have appeared. This gave us the opportunity to compare the archaeological finds of the Late Bronze Age of remote regions, namely the Eastern Europe and the Kazakh steppe and south of Western Siberia. A significant similarity was revealed between the celts of the ancient cultures of the Eastern Europe and the region located east of the Urals. It is suggested that the celts with on the side ears are of Eastern Europe origin. Their appearance among the artifacts of archaeological cultures of Kazakhstan and Southern Siberia is dated to the 14th - 11/10th centuries BC. Keywords: late Bronze Age, transition time from Bronze to Iron, celts, south of Western Siberia, eastern Europe

Excavations of the bronze age settlement “Hospital II” in Kerch (preliminary report)

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Д.В. Бейлин ◽  
А.Е. Кислый ◽  
А.М. Михайлов ◽  
В.В. Рогудеев ◽  
А.В. Шарапа ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Bronze Age ◽  
Preliminary Report ◽  
Cattle Breeding ◽  
Original Population ◽  
Eastern Crimea ◽  
Middle Bronze Age ◽  
The Great Migration ◽  
Stone Walls ◽  
The Bronze Age ◽  
Catacomb Culture

The Hospital II settlement is located in the coastal part of Kerch in the basin of Dzhardzhava river. Excavations of the settlement were carried out in 2017 in connection with the construction of the Crimean bridge. Six housing and economic complexes, household pits, an artificial platform, enclosed by stone walls, were investigated. The complex of findings allows to construct vertical and horizontal stratigraphy and chronological chain of development of this site. The most informative findings refer to the Kamensk culture of the Eastern Crimea and, in general, to the Kamensk-Leventsovsk horizon of the Middle Bronze Age. They confirm that the cultural peculiarities of the “catacombs” with the participation of the tribes of the wide district in the Eastern Crimea were transformed into a special type of monuments. Complexes of the Late Babinsk-Srubna horizon and further – of Early Belozersky emphasize the complex ways of development of the original population of the region. Probably, the investigated object was a winter village, the inhabitants of which were engaged in distant-pasture cattle breeding. The territory was also used in the antique era, but to a lesser extent. 9 burials were found: 1 – of catacomb culture, 5 – of Babinsk-Srubna horizon, 1 – of the era of the Great Migration of Nations and 2 – destroyed, of indefinite time.

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