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Issue 86
HISTORY AND ARCHAEOLOGY
UDK: 903.2 (574. 31)
SETTLEMENTS OF THE SAKA TIME OF CENTRAL KAZAKHSTAN: NEW RESULTS OF THE STUDY OF THE COMPOSITION OF CERAMICS
BEYSENOV Arman Ziyadenovich,
SHEVNINA Irina V.
The settlement monuments in the area of the Tasmola culture (the VIII-V centuries BC) of the Kazakh uplands have been studied over the past 20 years. Currently, over 70 settlements are known, which are characterized by small area, slope topography, small buildings with wide stone bases, and a thin cultural layer. According to A.Z. Beisenov, such settlements were seasonal in nature and served as a place for the winter stay of the pastoral population. To study this kind of wintering settlements, the use of ethnographic data will be largely justified. Based on the materials obtained during the excavations of the settlements, including ceramics and stone tools, the first round of results of multidisciplinary research has already been obtained. In 2021-2022 for the first time, a petrographic analysis of ceramics from the settlements was carried out. The report presents research data on the characteristics of the feedstock and molding masses. In total, samples from six settlements were analyzed. As the results of the analysis showed, according to the recipe, the molding masses are in principle the same in all cases, which is associated with common cultural traditions. At the same time, the raw material for pottery in each case has its own local characteristics. New research once again confirms the previously expressed opinions about the monoculturalism of these settlements. At the same time, the petrographic analysis of ceramics in a new way actualizes the problem of finding and studying the summer camps of this population, whose potters, in all likelihood, worked in warm seasons and mined clay in the area of the summer settlement.
Pages: 23 - 32
Date: 30.09.2022