Pages: 169-184 | DOI: https://doi.org/10.55086/sp253169184
The authors present a comparative analysis of the features of wooden structures from the Skalnaya-5 kurgan and the Skalnaya-6 burial mound no. 1, which were studied in the Askiz district of the Republic of Khakassia. The article focuses on identifying sustainable architectural traditions (algorithms) in Saragash and Tes’ wooden structures and their reconstruction. Log cabins of Skalnaya-6 with a two-layer wooden floor made of logs and layers of birch bark had two supports (logs-mats). The ten-log-frame chamber at Skalnaya-5 burial mound was topped with a multi-tiered lattice roll of interlaid logs. The interior of the tomb has been preserved in the form of wooden shelves made of planks and logs, for laying dead people and their imitations. The crypts of Skalnaya-5 and Skalnaya-6 were burnt and looted, but all the important details of the design features have been preserved. The variety of wooden funerary structures at the final stages of the Tagarian culture in the Minusinsk basin reflects the use of the widest range of prototypes of traditional wooden structures (cages in mines, cellars, log cabins buried in the ground). The “mosaic” picture of the features of wooden burial structures indicates a flexible balance of conservatism and variability of the basic principles of construction technologies in the Early Iron Age throughout the territory of the Sayano-Altai mountainous country.
Keywords: Khakassia, kurgan-crypt, Saragashensky and Tesinsky stages, house building, funeral rite, wooden log house, reconstruction
Information about authors:
Evgeny Bogdanov (Novosibirsk, Russian Federation). Candidate of Historical Sciences. Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography, Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Akademik Lavrentiev Ave., 17, Novosibirsk, 630090, Russian Federation
E-mail: [email protected]
ORCID: 0000-0001-7073-8914
Andrey Borodovsky (Novosibirsk, Russian Federation). Doctor of Historical Sciences. Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography, Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Akademik Lavrentiev Ave., 17, Novosibirsk, 630090, Russian Federation
E-mail: [email protected]
ORCID: 0000–0002–6312–1024