Pages: 205-236

Systematical excavations at the Gnezdovo archaeological complex in the Upper Dnieper region provide a large collection of jewellery and evidence for jewellery production at this site. On its spacious territory there were investigated five manufacturing zones. Manufacturing techniques of the main types of jewellery and utilitarian items were examined by the methods of traceology and metallography. It permits to evaluate the technological level of the local non-ferrous metalworking and identify the different manufacturing traditions which contributed to establishing of the Gnezdovo jewellery craft.

Keywords: Ancient Rus, Gnezdovo archaeological complex, jeweller's art, manufacturing techniques, traceology, metallography

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Natalya Eniosova (Moscow, Russian Federation). Candidate of Historical Sciences. M. V. Lomonosov Moscow State University. Lomonosovsky Ave., 27/4, Moscow, 119991, Russian Federation
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