BLADED WEAPONS OF THE 1ST–5TH CENTURIES FROM TARASOVO BURIAL SITE IN THE MIDDLE KAMA REGION | |||
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Year | 2017 | Number | 1(54) |
Pages | 113-123 | Type | scientific article |
UDC | 903.22(470.51)”637” | BBK | 63.44.6(2РосУдм) |
Authors | Goldina Rimma D. Perevoshchikov Stanislav E. |
Topic | ARCHAEOLOGICAL FACTS AND INTERPRETATIONS |
Summary | Bladed weapons as the evidence of the existence of poly-ethnic contacts represent one of the most interesting categories of archaeological finds. 28 items of such weapons originated from the Middle Kama Tarasovo burial site of the 1st–5th centuries including 3 broadswords and 25 ordinary swords. The chronological study of the site's complex and the metallographic analysis of 13 blades made possible to group them in several chronological categories. In the 1st–2nd centuries, long before the Huns period in the Kama and the neighboring Volga regions, single blade broadswords were most popular; in the 3rd–4th centuries the weapons of choice were the narrow long double blade ones, and in the first half of the 3rd–5th centuries — the wide-blade swords. Decoration of both the narrow and the wide swords handles with chalcedony pommels was characteristic for the second half of the 3rd and the third quarter of the 4th centuries. The metallographic analysis demonstrated a great variety of the swords manufacturing techniques — from bloomery iron with further carbonization; from a steel uniformly carbonized blank; from fagoted steel with high quality welding; from a skillet cast or damask steel. Most of the blades were imported, there were still very few local ones. The quantity of the blades, their manufacturing technique, the accompanying goods, as well as the presence of other types of weapons indicated the probability of inflow into the Kama region of militarized population in the third and fourth quarters of the 4th century. | ||
Keywords | Average Kama, the first half of I millennium BC, Tarasovskiy burial, long piercing and slashing weapons, broadsword and swords | ||
References |
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