THE TYPOLOGY OF TEXTILE PRINTS AND THE CHRONOLOGICAL DISTRIBUTION OF THE INDIVIDUAL TYPES OF TEXTILE PATTERNS SUPPLEMENTED WITH DRAFTS

Abstract

The paper represents a publication of draft papers and chapters of the thesis by a renowned Soviet and
Russian archaeologist B.A. Folomeyev (March 26th, 1942 - September 19th, 2001) dedicated to the classifi -
cation of ‘textile’ imprints and the discovered chronological features of their distribution. The publication is
subdivided into two parts. They were written in various periods with a time diff erence of about 20 years, but
represent a signifi cant addition to the existing developments of Folomeyev's classifi cations of 1975 and 1998.
The fi rst part features a classifi cation of ‘textile’ imprints is given with identifi ed 12 variants corresponding to
two types of imprints - ‘pitted’ and ‘threaded’. Similarly to the classifi cation for Tyukov town, the primary criterion
is the diff erence in the method of applying imprints on the surface, but an amount of material from more
than a single site was used as the source. The paper also features important observations concerning the forms,
ornamentation, impurities and other peculiarities of time and space. The second part of the paper is dedicated
to the identifi cation of chronological features and the arrangement of the development periodization of the
‘textile’ (‘mesh’) textures (‘pitted’, ‘thread-cord’ and ‘thread-fi lament’) preciously identifi ed on the basis of
morphological features in 1998 using the materials of archaeological sites dating back to the Bronze Age and
the Early Iron Age located in the Middle Oka region. The periodization consists of the following three periods:
early (prior to the 12th-11th centuries B.C.), middle (developed) (12th-11th - 7th-6th centuries B.C.) and late
(since the 7th-6th centuries B.C.).