Nedashkovsky L.F., Shigapov M.B. Bone Wares from Bagaevka Settlement
Leonard F. Nedashkovsky, Doctor of Sciences (History), Professor, Department of Archaeology and Ethnology, Kazan (Volga region) Federal University, Kremlyovskaya St, 18, 420008 Kazan, Russian Federation
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Marat B. Shigapov, Candidate of Sciences (History), Archaeologist-Researcher, Povolzhskaya arkheologiya LLC, Nekrasova St, 28, 420012 Kazan, Russian Federation
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Abstract. The article is devoted to the introduction into scientific circulation of a collection of bone wares from the excavations of the Bagaevka settlement of the Golden Horde period, located on the Volga’s right bank in the Saratov region. The wares were divided on functional purpose into the following groups: tools and household articles (components of knives and other tools: handle, backplate, couplings, holder, ornamented ware); objects of arms and hunting equipment (quiver loop, ornamented facing of quiver, lash handle); toiletries and ornaments (stripe, cowrie shell with a hole); objects for games (knucklebones); and wares characterizing the technological process of production of objects from horn and bone (workpiece from the elk horn, fragment of an oyster shell). The morphological features of the artifacts are considered on the basis of typology with the involvement of a wide comparative background of materials of medieval monuments of Eurasia. The bone wares used in a large city were more diverse and numerous than those used by the villagers of the Golden Horde. The distribution of finds on groups is remarkable: tools and household articles 30%, objects of arms and hunting equipment 15%, toiletries and ornaments 10%, and objects for games 35%, wares characterizing the technological process of production of objects from horn and bone 10%. Finds of workpiece from the elk horn and a fragment of an oyster shell demonstrate the existence of bone carving craft in the Bagaevka settlement (previously, no traces of this production had been recorded in the Golden Horde rural settlements of the Lower Volga region). The products of bone carvers used by the villagers were not inferior to professional handicraft wares from the Golden Horde towns.
Key words: bone wares, bone carving craft, Golden Horde, Ulus Jochi, Bagaevka settlement.
Citation. Nedashkovsky L.F., Shigapov M.B., 2026. Kostyanye izdeliya s Bagaevskogo selishcha [Bone Wares from Bagaevka Settlement]. Nizhnevolzhskiy Arkheologicheskiy Vestnik [The Lower Volga Archaeological Bulletin], vol. 25, no. 1, pp. 144-160. DOI: https://doi.org/10.15688/nav.jvolsu.2026.1.7
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