Institute for the History of Material Culture RAS

PAJIS

ISSN 2658-3925
Pervobytnaia arkheologiia. Zhurnal mezhdistsiplinarnykh issledovanii
Prehistoric Archaeology. Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies
Institute for the History of Material Culture RAS

PAJIS

ISSN 2658-3925
Pervobytnaia arkheologiia. Zhurnal mezhdistsiplinarnykh issledovanii
Prehistoric Archaeology. Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies

Gyria E. Yu., Uchaneva E. N., Malyutina A. A., Busova V. S., Lazaretova N. I. Traceological study of trepanations on crania from vaults at Beliy Yar-VI, Stepnovka-II, and Bolshoe Ruslo (Tes stage of the Tagar culture).

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Institute for the History of Material Culture RAS, 18 Dvortsovaya emb., St. Petersburg, 191186, Russia [kostionki@yandex.ru]

Peter the Great Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography (the Kunstkamera) RAS, Universiry emb., 3, St. Petersburg, 199034, Russia [ucha.89@mail.ru]

Institute for the History of Material Culture RAS, 18 Dvortsovaya emb., St. Petersburg, 191186, Russia [kostylanya@yandex.ru]

Institute for the History of Material Culture RAS, 18 Dvortsovaya emb., St. Petersburg, 191186, Russia [kulturnijkarman@gmail.com]

Institute for the History of Material Culture RAS, 18 Dvortsovaya emb., St. Petersburg, 191186, Russia [natasha-lazaretova@yandex.ru]

 

Abstract. The study focuses on postmortem trepanations of crania from the Early Tes’ (late first millennium BC) burial vaults in the Minusinsk Basin, Southern Siberia. The authors present the results of traceological analysis of more than 140 crania and data on the location, position, shape and size of openings, and trepanation techniques. Judging by the traces left on cranial bones, there were several such techniques, and different types of tools were used. We have tentatively identified certain trepanning instruments in archaeological collections and compared them with the most characteristic traces on the crania.

Keywords: traceology, palaeoanthropology, postmortem trepanations, Early Tes’ burial vaults, Minusinsk Basin.

Received 19.02.2020, revised 15.03.2020, accepted 17.03.2020.

DOI: 10.31600/2658-3925-2020-1-135-171

For citation: Gyria E. Yu., Uchaneva E. N., Malyutina A. A., Busova V. S., Lazaretova N. I. Traceological study of trepanations on crania from vaults at Beliy Yar-VI, Stepnovka-II, and Bolshoe Ruslo (Tes stage of the Tagar culture). Prehistoric Archaeology. Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies. 2020 (1), 135-171 (in Russ.). DOI: 10.31600/2658-3925-2020-1-135-171

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