RESULTS OF STUDYING STONE KNIVES OF THE EKVEN CEMETERY (ETHNO-TRACEOLOGICAL ANALYSIS)
Keywords:
archaeology, Chukotka, Ekven cemetery, Neo-Eskimo culture, stone knives, ethnotraceological analysis, ethnographic dataAbstract
The paper focuses on preliminary results of ethnоtraсeological studies of stone knives – one of many categories of funerary equipment of the Ekven cemetery, which are stored in the depositories of Peter the Great Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography (the Kunstkamera) (St. Petersburg, Russia). The cemetery is one of the few widely excavated sites of the Neo-Eskimo culture in Chukotka (I millennium BC). The uniqueness of these artifacts results from the persistence of their authentic forms caused by the millennia-old tradition, practically unchanging ecosystem of the region and especially their exceptional practicality and comparative ease of manufacture. Thanks to such a “living” ethnography and experimental-traceological analysis, it became possible to comprehensively reconstruct the ways of using these objects among the ancient Eskimos. Experimental and traceological studies of ethnographic materials from the MAE RAS collection provided an additional information source and allowed us to verify the archaeological and ethnographic data, making comparisons more correct.
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