Bone-carving handicraft of Middle and Low Volga regions based on analysis of the bone pieces and defective products from Bilyar and Samosdelka sites

Bone-carving handicraft of Middle and Low Volga regions based on analysis of the bone pieces and defective products from Bilyar and Samosdelka sites

Annotation

Based on these results it can be argued the presence of home carving handicraft production at the sites, due to the fact that the main characteristic of the craft – a high percentage of rejects and similar preparations, indicating the standardization and production volume is missing. The article discusses some lesser known issues of mutual influence of cultures of medieval population of the two regions based on the study of material culture of archaeological monuments of the Middle and Lower Volga regions, Bilyar and Samosdelskiy hillfort. The analysis bone workpieces and defective products offers a new perspective on the dynamics of such branch of medieval production as the bone cutting one.

Keywords

Article information
Authors
License

Creative Commons Licence
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License

* is not an advertisement
* click on a keyword to go to the search