A Systematic Outline for the Osseous Industries in theNorth Pontic Palaeometallic Age

The paper surveys current trends in systematizing bone and antler industries dated back to the 5th-1st millennia BC in the North Pontic area. The principles in question, however, seem to be adaptable to any of the many bone and antler contents of the Earth’s archaeosphere. The reader is introduced to the classificatory concept of the author’s own work which has never been explicated in full elsewhere. Usually, the North Pontic archaeologists definitely wish their archaeological record to be imposed into given classification completely. Yet the latter normally contains impermeable inherent limi... Mehr ...

Verfasser: Valentine Pankowski*
Dokumenttyp: Review article
Erscheinungsdatum: 2017
Verlag/Hrsg.: MedCrave
Schlagwörter: North Pontic Area / The Chalcolithic / The Bronze Age / The Iron Age / Bone And Antler Industry / Classification / Traceology / Osseous Artefact / Agricultural Inventory / Paraphernalia / Furniture / Accomodats / Modificats / Convertats / Sabatinovka Culture / Belozerka Culture
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The paper surveys current trends in systematizing bone and antler industries dated back to the 5th-1st millennia BC in the North Pontic area. The principles in question, however, seem to be adaptable to any of the many bone and antler contents of the Earth’s archaeosphere. The reader is introduced to the classificatory concept of the author’s own work which has never been explicated in full elsewhere. Usually, the North Pontic archaeologists definitely wish their archaeological record to be imposed into given classification completely. Yet the latter normally contains impermeable inherent limits set up by the analysts themselves, who basically face a scarcity of comprehensive expert data. Here, a solution to the problem is put forward based on systemic classificatory approach. This one refers to the osseous raw material structures and the ways these latter were bound to transform during manufacture. The author’s techno classes concept of adapting, modifying and converting bone and antler during utilization goes back, in particular, to A.P.Borodovskiy’s technological systematics. The traceology, in its turn, tends to embed almost anything identifiable into a system, since various means of functional analysis would be a bit of a help as verifying methods. At the same time, the artifact’s technical function andthe manner it was used are the issues of special research concern. Further, the ways in which past equipments (instruments, implements and accessories) might have affected other objects and substances or interacted with them, resulted in rational shapes and use-wear patterns in artifacts of bone and antler. On that basis, tools, devices, joints, furniture and paraphernalia entities seem to be quite perceptive to the variability of the North Pontic worked osseous record. This kind of arrangement of the material, would it be derived from a site or an archaeological culture, may have been flexibly changed in terms of its units, whereas its principal sections are here to stay with no need them to be rearranged.