Bronze Age Wool Textile of the Northern Eurasia: New Radiocarbon Data

The Bronze Age of northern Eurasia is characterised by major socio-economic changes. A secondary products revolution defined an overall trajectory in these global economic transformations. Innovative changes in fibre technologies led to the appearance of woven wool textiles and the production and consumption of new types of garment. Analysis of the first direct AMS 14C dates from woven wool fibres from Bronze Age sites across northern Eurasia allow us to define key stages in the directional spread of woven wool textiles and to determine the cultural context of this process of technological transmission

ИЗУЧЕНИЕ СЕРЕБРЯНЫХ ИЗДЕЛИЙ БОРОДИНСКОГО КЛАДА: НОВОЕ ОБ ИЗВЕСТНОМ

The paper is dedicated to the studies of the Borodino hoard. Precise chemical and isotopic analysis of silver objects from the Borodino hoard enables a re-evaluation of similarities and differences in the characteristics of the silver alloys, their technological “biographies” and the extent to which they are related to one another. Silver with traces of lead, gold and platinum group metals was identified as the primary component in the manufacture of large spearhead (1), the dagger and broken spearhead socket (3). To this, in the latter two cases, was added arsenical tin bronze, the former was produced from pure silver. These items share a common “biography” of production probably related to the metallurgical traditions of the south Eastern European steppe. Both the typology and chemical composition of the furcate spearhead (2) can be related to the silver products of the Turbino cemetery in the Urals, the analysis of which showed a single technological scheme: the addition of arsenic- and/or nickel-bearing copper was added in varying proportions to silver with very few natural impurities