Pages: 105-120 | DOI: https://doi.org/10.55086/sp252105120
Using historical and ethnographic data, the paper reconstructs the model of cattle breeding based on the archaeozoological study of the osteological collection from Ishkinovka settlement of miners and metallurgists, dated to the late Bronze Age. It was established that the foundation of the life support system was mobile cattle breeding with seasonal rotation of pastures and water sources. Hunting provided additional resources. In places of summer pastures, there is a high concentration of burial grounds, which acts as markers of the monopoly right to exploit limited vital resources. Certain groups of the population engaged in mining and metallurgical production and were probably exempted from animal husbandry. The established system of mobile cattle breeding, integrated with mining and metallurgical production structures, is one of the alternative forms of implementation of the pastoral model of metal production during the Bronze Age in the steppe regions of Northern Eurasia.
Keywords: late Bronze Age, Ural-Mugodzhary region, Kozhumberdy cultural group, archaeozoology, archaeometallurgy, mining and metallurgical production, mobile cattle breeding
Information about authors:
Vitaly Tkachev (Orenburg, Russian Federation). Candidate of Historical Sciences. Orenburg Federal Research Center, Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Pionerskaya St., 11, Orenburg, 460000, Russian Federation
E-mail: [email protected]
ORCID: 0000-0002-6355-1745
Pavel Kosintsev (Yekaterinburg, Russian Federation). Candidate of Biological Sciences. Institute for Ecology of Plants and Animals, Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences. 8th March St., 202, Yekaterinburg, 620144, Russian Federation
E-mail: [email protected]
ORCID: 0000-0002-0973-7426
Anton Kisagulov (Yekaterinburg, Russian Federation). Institute of Plant and Animal Ecology, Ural branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences. 8th March St., 202, Yekaterinburg, 620144, Russian Federation
E-mail: [email protected]
ORCID: 0000-0002-8653-8359
Olga Bachura (Yekaterinburg, Russian Federation). Candidate of Biological Sciences. Institute of Plant and Animal Ecology, Ural branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences. 8th March St., 202, Yekaterinburg, 620144, Russian Federation
E-mail: [email protected]
ORCID: 0000-0002-4865-5167