Stone Arrowheads from the Sites of the Garino Culture of the Chalcolithic in the Middle Cis-Urals
The study deals with the generalization of the results of the approbation of the typology of the Garino culture stone arrowheads. During the work, 625 items from 22 Chalcolithic sites of the region were studied. Basically, the arrowheads were made of flint of various colour shades. To make them, the...
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State institution «Tatarstan Аcademy of Sciences»
2025-02-01
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| Series: | Археология евразийских степей |
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| Online Access: | https://evrazstep.ru/index.php/aes/article/view/1493 |
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| Summary: | The study deals with the generalization of the results of the approbation of the typology of the Garino culture stone arrowheads. During the work, 625 items from 22 Chalcolithic sites of the region were studied. Basically, the arrowheads were made of flint of various colour shades. To make them, the technology of secondary bifacial thinning was used, in which the completed tools were decorated with solid, flat, pressed, multi-faceted, bifacial retouching. The typology itself includes 2 groups, 5 types, 19 species and 7 variants. Among the arrowheads, wide unifacial and pentagonal shapes with a truncated or concave base prevail, in addition, unifacial shapes with a rounded base are numerous. Willow-leaved, triangular and rhombic points are less common. The category of stemmed points is insignificant. Analogies to the studied product forms can be found in the materials of the Chalcolithic complexes from the European Northeast to the Southern Urals. They are mainly of the unifacial arrowheads with both a truncated / concave and rounded / sharpened base. The rest of the forms (rhombic, triangular, stemmed and others) are mentioned in the scientific literature much less or are not mentioned at all. The conducted research made it possible to systematize the methods of typological study of stone arrowheads and expand the criteria for describing items. The successful application of the proposed typology proved its universal character. |
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| ISSN: | 2587-6112 2618-9488 |