RAS History & PhilologyRussian archeology

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A NEW FIND OF A STONE DISC-FINIAL (CONCERNING PERFORATED STONE DISCS IN THE MIDDLE TRANSURALS AREA)

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S0869-60630000392-4-1
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Publication type
Article
Status
Published
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Volume/ Edition
Volume / Issue 3
Pages
136-151
Abstract
In the discovered in 2006 settlement Shaidurikha 33 on the south-western bank of Ayatskoye Lake, in the sounding trench (9 square meters), in upper part of the undivided cultural layer containing the artifacts of the Mesolithic - Bronze Age there were found a pestle-grindstone 10.8 x 5.8 * 4.7 cm from granite gneiss and a disc-pommel 15.6 x 12.7 x 3.5 cm from the chloritic material at the distance of 25 cm from each other. The disc has asymmetric oval plano-convex cut. The surface was polished on the coarse-grained abrasive. The hole in the center was made by the stationing from both sides. On the surface there are graved line pictures in the basis of which there is a sidelong cross going through the hole. The rim of the disc was sharpened with a thin polisher from the both sides after it had already been ornamented. The perforated stone discs are known in middle Transurals from the early Neolithic period. At first, probably, there were discs of oval shape. There are only three oval Transurals discs-pommels together with the described one...
Keywords
Disc-pommel, sacral object, middle Transurals, pestle-grindstone, cult complex, sacral calendar
Date of publication
01.07.2016
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1
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602

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