Pages: 335-341

A very special pair of horn cheek-pieces was found among other grave artifacts during the excavation of single burial 1 of barrow 6 of the Uren I burial ground in 1988. In 2017, we got a chance to make a trace evidence analysis of these cheekpieces. The paper presents all the trace evidence that suggests that the artisan, when making Uren cheek-pieces, was going through experiments: he tried to do something different from commonly accepted forms and deliberately made cheek-pieces so different in appearance by mixing Eastern and Western manufacturing techniques.

Keywords: Volga region, Bronze Age, Sintashta culture, Pokrovsk culture, shield cheek-piece, technology of production, use

Information about author:

Pavel Kuznetsov (Samara, Russian Federation). Candidate of Historical Sciences. Volga Region Archaeology Museum of the Samara State University of Social Sciences and Education. Leninskaya St., 123, Samara, 443041, Russian Federation
E-mail: [email protected]
Аnatolii Usachuk (Donetsk, Ukraine). Candidate of Historical Sciences. Donetsk Regional Museum of Local History. Chelyuskintsev St., 189A, Donetsk, 83048, Ukraine
E-mail: [email protected]