Open AccessBRONZE AGE WOOL FABRICS OF SOUTH SIBERIA: RESULTS OF TECHNOLOGICAL, ISOTOPIC AND RADIOCARBON ANALYSES
Author(s) -
Natalia Shishlina,
Olga Orfinskaya,
Д. В. Киселева,
Peter Hommel,
N. Kuznetsova,
Natalia Petrova,
Е. С. Шагалов
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
zapiski instituta istorii materialʹnoj kulʹtury ran
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2310-6557
DOI - 10.31600/2310-6557-2020-23-70-81
Subject(s) - radiocarbon dating , wool , bronze age , archaeology , bronze , population , isotope analysis , geology , geography , demography , oceanography , sociology
The paper presents the results of technological, isotopic and radiocarbon analyses of wool fabric samples from the Bronze Age burials of South Siberia. It is suggested that the appearance of wool fibers in this region was connected to the Late Andronovo population of the middle — early second half of the II mil. BC. The location of the textile production centers remains an open question, because the isotopic composition of the studied samples (nitrogen, carbon, variations of 87Sr/86Sr ratios) shows that wools textiles from the Uzhur, Uibat and Ust-Erba cemeteries could not have been produced locally.