RESULTS OF THE EXPERIMENTAL AND USE-WEAR STUDIES CARRYING OUT IN THE SUMMER ARCHAEOLOGICAL SCHOOL IN BULGAR (REPUBLIC OF TATARSTAN)
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archaeological summer school, Republic of Tatarstan, Bulgar, experimental and use-wear studies, tools, stone, shells, bone, antler, metalAbstract
Actual use-wear method is successfully used for study the sets of tools from different species of raw materials applicable not only to the Stone Age, but also to subsequent eras. This requires the expansion of the experimental base of tool standards, which is necessary for verifi cation of functional analysis, interpretation of the features of ancient technologies. The paper discusses the results of recent experimental and use-wear studies were organized and conducted by the eponymous section of the school in Bulgar (Republic of Tatarstan) and the expedition of the Institute for the History of Material Culture of the Russian Academy of Sciences. The experiments were related to obtaining the standards necessary to characterize certain categories of little-studied tools. They were organized in compliance with the procedures developed during the long-term experimental expeditions of the Leningrad Branch of Institute of Archaeology of the USSR Academy of Sciences / Institute for the History of Material Culture of the Russian Academy of Sciences. The research included: theoretical preparation, problem setting, ensuring the approximation of experiments to ancient conditions, seriality of the same experiments, one experimenter to establish signifi cant patterns, statistical processing of results, detailed fi xation in various ways (description, graphically, macro-, microphotography). The obtained data will be a reliable source for further experimental and traceological studies.
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