EARLY BRONZE AGE FUR COAT FROM THE DOLMEN NEAR TSARSKAYA STANITSA (1898) IN NORTHWEST CAUCASUS: METHODS AND RESULTS OF AN INTEGRATED STUDY

The paper presents results of the morphological and isotopic analyses of fur remnants coming from a dolmen dating to the Early Bronze Age (the end of the 4rd millennium BC) discovered near Stanitsa Tsarskaya in the North-West Caucasus, 1898. It has been established that the fur garment of the buried individual was made of souslik (a short-tailed ground squirrel (S. citellus) skins, maybe, skins of Spermophiluspygmaeus. This part of the outer clothes was probably a fur coat which covered the buried individual who was dressed in a brown striped wool cloak decorated, possibly, with red tassels along the lower edge. Additional accessories such as silver fastenings shaped as curved (crook-shaped) pins may be regarded to be an indicator of the fashion trend adopted by locals from the Near East. For the first time a study of this type offers a possibility to reconstruct a cutout and decoration of woven and fur clothes worn by a North Caucasus inhabitant who lived in the Early Bronze Age period.

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dolmens, Bronze Age, the Caucasus, animal fur, clothes, morphological analysis, isotopic analysis

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01.01.2018

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GOST	Chernov O., Golenishchev F., Sevastyanov V., Shishlina N., Trifonov V., van der Plicht J. EARLY BRONZE AGE "FUR COAT" FROM THE DOLMEN NEAR TSARSKAYA STANITSA (1898) IN NORTHWEST CAUCASUS: METHODS AND RESULTS OF AN INTEGRATED STUDY // Russian archeology. – 2018. – Issue 1 C. 118-134 .
MLA	Chernov, Olga, Golenishchev, Fedor, Sevastyanov, Vyacheslav, Shishlina, Natalya, Trifonov, Victor, van der Plicht, Johannes "EARLY BRONZE AGE "FUR COAT" FROM THE DOLMEN NEAR TSARSKAYA STANITSA (1898) IN NORTHWEST CAUCASUS: METHODS AND RESULTS OF AN INTEGRATED STUDY." Russian archeology. 1 (2018).:118-134.
APA	Chernov O., Golenishchev F., Sevastyanov V., Shishlina N., Trifonov V., van der Plicht J. (2018). EARLY BRONZE AGE "FUR COAT" FROM THE DOLMEN NEAR TSARSKAYA STANITSA (1898) IN NORTHWEST CAUCASUS: METHODS AND RESULTS OF AN INTEGRATED STUDY. Russian archeology. no. 1, pp.118-134

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