Ornamental birch bark products stored in the State Museum of Fine Arts are one of the most remarkable and extremely rare categories of finds in the sixth Section of the Gorbunovsky peat bog, which have no analogues in the materials of other peat bog monuments of the forest zone of Northern Eurasia. The article considers the morphological characteristics and manufacturing technology of products, the archaeological context of their discovery, and analyzes the elements of similarity with ceramic dishes of the early Bronze Age.
Keywords: Trans-Urals, Gorbunovsky peat bog, VI Section, birch bark ornamental products, morphology, technology, archaeological context, cultural affiliation, dating.
Introduction
In 1926-1929, 1931, and 1936. The Ural expedition of the State Museum of Natural History, led by D. N. Eding, together with the Nizhny Tagil Museum of Local Lore, excavated the sixth Section of the Gorbunovsky peat bog, located in the Sverdlovsk region, in the vicinity of Nizhny Tagil. In 1948, the work was continued by A. Y. Bryusov and V. M. Rauschenbach, in the 80s of the XX century-by V. F. Starkov, since 2007-by N. M. Chairkina. As a result of many years of archaeological research, more than 1,500 m2 of the monument's area was uncovered, and wooden cult (commercial?) buildings were discovered. structures near which anthropomorphic and zoomorphic sculptures, dishes, vehicles, hunting and fishing tools made of organic materials were found. Collections of finds are kept in the State Museum of Fine Arts, IA RAS, IIA of the Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, and NTMZ.Unfortunately, a significant part of them has not been processed or published. D. N. Eding devoted several works to the results of the study of the VI Section [1929a, 1940a, b], which gave a rather detailed description of the archaeological material, considered the stratigraphy, and noted the different timing of certain types of objects. Analysis of the main categories of artefacts and interpre ...
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