HEADDRESS, RITUAL AND GENDER SYMBOLS (RECONSTRUCTION BASED ON MATERIALS OF THE BRONZE AGE FROM THE NOVYE YABALAKLY 1 BURIAL GROUND)2
ГОЛОВНОЙ УБОР, РИТУАЛ И ГЕНДЕРНАЯ СИМВОЛИКА (РЕКОНСТРУКЦИЯ ПО МАТЕРИАЛАМ ЭПОХИ БРОНЗЫ МОГИЛЬНИКА НОВО-ЯБАЛАКЛИНСКИЙ 1)
Usmanova E.R. Merts V.K. Gyul E.F. Antonov M.A.
2022Academy of Sciences of Tatarstan, A.Kh. Khalikov Archaeology Institute
Arkheologiia Evraziiskikh Stepei
2022Issue 277 - 87 pp.
A bronze jewelry set was found during excavations of a woman’s and a child’s grave at the Novye Yabalakly 1 burial ground (located in the Republic of Bashkortoston on the right bank of the Dema River), attributed to the Srubnaya culture (third quarter of the 2nd Millennium BC). It is consisted of an adornment within braid and plaques, assembled in a chain, which was interpreted as a breast adornment. On the basis of new materials on the Bronze Age female costume of the Ural–Kazakhstani steppes, a reconstruction of the jewelry complex is suggested in the form of facial pendants and a braid adornment of a headdress. Based on the results of a spectral analysis, S.V. Kuzminykh suggests the Andronovo origin of the jewelry set and its import into the Srubnaya culture as a result of barter transactions or matrimonial relationships. Using the ethnographic parallels of the headdress’ status in the wedding rite, the symbolism of the “Yabalakly” headdress is interpreted as a wedding item. The ornamental pattern on the plaques of the face pendant is a variation of a cross and a zigzag. They are universal images in the graphic concepts of the steppe cultures of the period, reflecting the ideas of protective magic.
Andronovo culture , archaeology , braid adornment , burial , face pendant , headdress , metallographic analysis , protective magic , Srubnaya culture , symbolism of the cross
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Saryarka Archaeological Institute, Buketov Karaganda University, Universitetskaya Str., 28, Karaganda, 100024, Kazakhstan
Historical Sciences, Center for Archaeological Research, Toraigyrov University, Lomov Str., 64, Pavlodar, 140008, Kazakhstan
Institute of Art Studies, The Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Uzbekistan, Mustakillik Ave., 2, Tashkent, 100029, Uzbekistan
Institute of Archaeology after A. H. Margulan, Dostyk Ave., 44, Shevchenko Str., 28, Almaty, 050010, Kazakhstan
Saryarka Archaeological Institute
Historical Sciences
Institute of Art Studies
Institute of Archaeology after A. H. Margulan
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