Journal of Siberian Federal University. Humanities & Social Sciences / The Assessment of the Socio-Economic Role of Forest-Steppe West Siberian Medieval Fortified Settlements by Remains of Metallurgical Production

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Journal of Siberian Federal University. Humanities & Social Sciences. 2024 17 (9)
Authors
Matveeva, Natalia P.; Tretyakov, Evgenii A.; Ovchinnikov, Ivan Yu.
Contact information
Matveeva, Natalia P.: University of Tyumen Tyumen, Russian Federation; ; Tretyakov, Evgenii A.: University of Tyumen Tyumen, Russian Federation; Ovchinnikov, Ivan Yu. : V. S. Sobolev Institute of Geology and Mineralogy SB RAS Novosibirsk, Russian Federation
Keywords
West Siberian forest steppe; The Middle Ages; metallurgists and blacksmiths; the socio-economic role of fortified settlements
Abstract

The article reconstructs the residential and economic development of the layout of the Ust-Tersyuk fortified settlement. It has been established that in the IV–IX centuries, within the framework of the Bakal culture, behind the walls of the fortress there were houses made of timber frames with a deep underground part. There were craft workshops with furnaces, forges and anvils, with pits for producing coal and storing supplies close to the houses. Part of the population specialized in metal production. Iron was used to produce tools: adzes, awls, knives, arrowheads. The copper scrap was melted down into new products. The expansion of the assortment, coal reserves, labor–intensive industries, including weapons, based on the finds of tools and remnants of production activities, indicate a leap in the development of ferrous metallurgy and non-ferrous metalworking in the X–XIII centuries among the population of the Yudino culture. The lack of raw materials led to the widespread use of scrap and the delivery of imported products. The duration of habitat of the masters of the Yudino culture in the fortified settlement and their status require further justification. We assume that these were bogatyrs and blacksmiths and their families with prisoners. The traces of fires, the variety of dates of things, the asynchrony of the remains of structures allow us to assume the seasonality of metallurgical activities or repeated military conflicts among the West Siberian population. Further excavations will allow us to conduct a more detailed analysis

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1723–1734
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SOFSSX
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https://elib.sfu-kras.ru/handle/2311/153762

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