Small Accessories of Women's Headwear of the Bronze Age in the Southern Urals: research and reconstruction techniques
Journal Title: Поволжская Археология - Year 2017, Vol 3, Issue 21
Abstract
The article features an analysis of a group of women's headwear accessories dating back to the Bronze Age. Women's costume of the Southern Urals was almost exclusively represented in the Bronze Age by adornments and adornment complexes. The issues of costume reconstruction are related to the almost total absence of the organic component, frequent looting of funerary complexes and the effects of taphonomic processes. A series of taphonomic experiments conducted by the author allowed to identify certain trends in the destruction of complex adornments during their archaeologization. The research of these materials allowed to identify series of artifacts which could have constituted fragments of small headwear accessories (clasps or combs). As noted by the author, these series of Bronze Age artifacts have not been considered by researchers as the remains of small women's headdress accessories. In this regard, the reconstruction of headdress details with the use of taphonomic process analysis and the corresponding experiments has a certain significance in terms of methodology.
Authors and Affiliations
Elena Kupriyanova
Keywords
Related Articles
- EP ID EP226042
- DOI 10.24852/pa2017.3.21.272.279
- Views 73
- Downloads 0
Trade Constructions in Oriental and Golgen Horde Towns
The article considers trade constructions located in Oriental countries. According to written sources, markets or bazaars represented the most important institutions in medieval Oriental towns. At the same time, they wer...
Archaeometry research of silver coins of the 10th century from Volga Bulgaria (preliminary results)
Preliminary studies of silver coinage material from the Semenovskoe I unfortified settlement site situated at the confluence of the Volga and Kama rivers in the territory of Volga Bulgaria are discussed in the article. C...
First Bolgar Silver Dinars of 13th Century
The article considers silver coins minted in the first half of 13th century in the territory of Bolgar vilayet. All studied coins feature a theophoric name of Baghdad caliph al-Nasir li-din Allah. The author determined t...
The History of the Study of Residential Space of the Sintashta-Petrovka Fortified Settlements
Historiography on the topic on dwellings and settlements of Sintashta-Petrovka type is analyzed in the paper. The most important field discoveries and research are examined briefly by the author. Three chronological stag...
The 90th Anniversary of A. Kh. Khalikov (1929–1994)
The paper attempts to reveal the role of Professor Alfred Khasanovich Khalikov, Doctor of Historical Sciences and Corresponding Member of the Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Tatarstan in the development of the pri...