To the question about the opportunity of militant use of the checans of the saragashen stage of the Tagar culture
https://doi.org/10.25205/2499-9997-2022-1-153-163
Abstract
The present work is devoted to the identification of militant properties of the checans of the saragashen stage of the tagar culture. Throughout its length the checans were one of the type of melee weapon. They were intended for infliction of the stab wounds. On the territory of the Khakass-Minusinsk basin the checans are known as early as the late Bronze Age, but they were widely used among the population of the tagar culture. They are an exclusively male subject. In the archaeological literature there was an opinion about non-militant purpose of the checans at the saragashen stage and they are interpreted as «votive» (exclusively intended for ritual use as an accompanying inventory of the deceased). The tagar petroglyphs demonstrate two types of the checans: big and small. Products’ analysis and their images allows to talk about the militant use of both reduced and full sized checans. One can assume that the decrease of sizes is related to a change in combat tactics.
About the Authors
О. V. Minor
Novosibirsk State University
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Minor Olesya V., Candidate of Historical Sciences, Research Engineer of the Laboratory of Humanitarian Research of the Research Unit
Pirogova str., 1, Novosibirsk, 630090
tel. 89232930065, 89832925031
А. L. Petrenko
Autonomous institution of the Khakass Republic «Information television center «Khakassia»
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Petrenko Andrey L., Chief Editor of broadcasting
Pushkina, 111, Abakan, Republic of Khakassia
tel. 89135492486
References
1. Chlenova N. L. Proiskhozhdenie i rannyaya istoriya plemen tagarskoi kul,tury. Moscow: Nauka, 1967. 300 p. (In Russ.).
2. Chlenova N. L. Svyazi kul,tur Zapadnoi Sibiri s kul,turami Priural,ya i Srednego Povolzh,ya v kontse epohi bronzy i nachale zheleznogo veka. Problemy zapadnosibirskoi arkheologii. Epokha zheleza. Novosibirsk, 1981. Рp. 4–42 (In Russ.).
3. Chlenova N. L. Tagarskaya kul,tura. Stepnaya polosa Aziatskoi chasti USSR v skifo-sarmatskoe vremya. Arkheologiya USSR. Moscow: Nauka, 1992. Рp. 210–246. (In Russ.).
4. Gorelik М. V. Oruzhie Drevnego Vostoka (IV tisyacheletie – IV vek do nashei ery.). Sankt-Peterburg: Atlant, 2003. 336p. (In Russ.).
5. Gryaznov M. P., Pshenitsyna M. N. Kurgany IV–III vekov do nashei ery na ozere Saragash. Kratkie soobshcheniya Instituta arkheologii Russia Akademii nauk, 1966, No. 107. Рp. 62–69. (In Russ.).
6. Khavrin S. V. Tagarskie bronzy Shirinskogo raiona Khakasii. Sbornik nauchnykh trudov v chest, 60-letiya A. V. Vinogradova, Sankt-Peterburg, 2007. Рp. 115–122. (In Russ.).
7. Kocheev V. A. Boevoe oruzhie pazyryktsev. Drevnosti Altaya. Izvestiya laboratorii arkheologii, 1999, No. 4. Рp. 79–88. (In Russ.).
8. Kocheev V. A. Oruzheinyi kompleks ranneskifskogo vremeni Gornogo Altaya. Drevnosti Altaya. Izvestia laboratorii arheologii, 2001, No. 7. Рp. 114–124. (In Russ.).
9. Kuzimin N. Yu. Kurgan u derevni Novomikhailovka. Problemy izucheniya kul,tury stepnykh plemen Eniseya V–III veka do nashei ery. Raskopki na dorogakh Khakasii. Vypusk 1. Arkheologicheskie izyskaniya, 1994, Vypusk 15. 59p. (In Russ.).
10. Monnai-ool M. H. Tuva v skifskoe vremia (uyukskaya kul,tura). Moscow: Nauka, 1970. 119p. (In Russ.).
11. Martynov A. I. Lesostepnaya tagarskaya kul,tura. Novosibirsk: Nauka. Sibirskoe otdelenie, 1979. 208 p. (In Russ.).
12. Polosimak N. V. Issledovanie vtorogo kurgana mogil,nika pazyrykskoi kul,tury Ak-Akakha I. Arkheologicheskie vesti, 1995, No. 4. Рp. 91–96. (In Russ.).
13. Sovetova O. C. Petroglify tagarskoi epokhi na Enisee (syuzhety i obrazy). Novosibirsk: Institut arkheologii i etnografii Sibirskogo otdeleniya Russia Akademii nauk, 2005. 138p. (In Russ.).
14. Vadetskaya E. B. Arkheologicheskie pamyatniki v stepyakh Srednego Eniseya. Leningrad: Nauka, 1986. 180p. (In Russ.).
Review
For citations:
Minor О.V., Petrenko А.L. To the question about the opportunity of militant use of the checans of the saragashen stage of the Tagar culture. Universum Humanitarium. 2022;(1):153-163. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.25205/2499-9997-2022-1-153-163
Views:
352
Email this article 