Seregin N.N., Matrenin S.S., Stepanova N.F. Bone Arrowheads of the Altai Northern Foothills Population in the Turkic Khaganates Period (On the Materials from the Gorny-10 Necropolis)
Nikolay N. Seregin, Doctor of Sciences (History), Professor, Department of Archaeology, Ethnography and Museology, Head of the Laboratory of Ancient and Medieval Archaeology of Eurasia, Altai State University, Prosp. Lenina, 61, 656049 Barnaul, Russian Federation
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Sergey S. Matrenin, Candidate of Sciences (History), Senior Researcher, Laboratory of Ancient and Medieval Archaeology of Eurasia, Altai State University, Prosp. Lenina, 61, 656049 Barnaul, Russian Federation; Professor, Department of History and Philosophy, Barnaul Law Institute of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation, Chkalova St, 49, 656038 Barnaul, Russian Federation
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Nadezhda F. Stepanova, Candidate of Sciences (History), Senior Researcher, Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Prosp. Akademika Lavrentyeva, 17, 630090 Novosibirsk, Russian Federation
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Abstract. The article presents the analysis and interpretation of the bone arrowheads from the objects of the Gorny-10 necropolis. At this site, located in the Krasnogorsk region of the Altai Territory, the expeditions of the Altai State University and the Research and Production Center “Heritage” studied 75 ground burials of the Turkic Khaganates period (the late 6th – early 8th centuries AD) in 2000–2002. The studied collection includes 65 bone arrowheads. These items were part of the grave goods of 12 male, 2 female, 2 children, and 1 teenager buried individuals. Morphological and classification analysis of the formed sample of the finds made it possible to identify 14 types of objects. The results obtained demonstrate significant standardization of bone arrowheads with a petiole, which was expressed in an almost identical degree of distribution of triangular and diamond-shaped specimens, having predominantly elongated-hexagonal, hexagonal, and less often elongated-rhombic and rhombic feather outlines. The determining influence on the genesis of the considered category of products among the population of the northern foothills of Altai in the era of the Turkic Khaganates was exerted by the local traditions of bone carving of the representatives of the Maima and Odintsovo archaeological cultures. Single specimens with a socketed and clamping attachment reflect the influence of the subject complex of the Bulan-Koby culture; in this aspect, practically did not find a continuation in the traditions of the early medieval Altai Turks. Most of the identified types of arrowheads from the objects of the Gorny-10 necropolis are dated within a broad framework, mainly the late 3rd – early 8th centuries AD, or the late 4th – early 8th centuries AD.
Key words: bone arrowheads, Altai, Turkic Khaganates period, chronology, necropolis.
Citation. Seregin N.N., Matrenin S.S., Stepanova N.F., 2025. Kostyanye nakonechniki strel naseleniya severnyh predgoriy Altaya v epohu Tyurkskih kaganatov (po materialam nekropolya Gornyy-10) [Bone Arrowheads of the Altai Northern Foothills Population in the Turkic Khaganates Period (On the Materials from the Gorny-10 Necropolis)]. Nizhnevolzhskiy Arkheologicheskiy Vestnik [The Lower Volga Archaeological Bulletin], vol. 24, no. 1, pp. 106-122. DOI: https://doi.org/10.15688/nav.jvolsu.2025.1.5
Bone Arrowheads of the Altai Northern Foothills Population in the Turkic Khaganates Period (On the Materials from the Gorny-10 Necropolis) by Seregin N.N., Matrenin S.S., Stepanova N.F. is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
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