Possibilities of reconstruction medieval iron production of Tomsk Priobja on a joint of the ethnographicand archaeological data

Article is devoted a problem of reconstruction of medieval ferrousmetallurgy which actively developed in II thousand AD in Turk environment of the population of Tomsk Priobie. Attracts attention largeamount of the rests of ferrous metallurgy on medieval monuments of Tomsk Priobie, however the fragmentariness of similar certificatesessentially complicates to recreate in an integral kind of technology and stages of iron metallurgy in the ancient time. Besides writtenmentions of this craft in culture of Tomsk Tatars it is not revealed yet. Thereupon it is necessary attraction of the ethnographic certificatesessentially supplementing our knowledge of metallurgy gland at other Turkic people of Siberia. The research urgency is connected by thatthe complex analysis of ethnographic materials on ferrous metallurgy of the native population of Siberia hasn't been spent till now. Besides,accumulation of new unique archaeological sources on iron metallurgy in comparison with the ethnographic data opens new horizons of thepast. For example, last years it has been proved that metallurgy in Tomsk Priobie completely was based on local deposits of iron ore, insteadof on imported raw materials as was considered earlier. It allows considering in another way development of local metallurgy as separatelystood apart craft with steady traditions of reception of iron up to the ethnographic present. Necessity of the similar researches, allowing tocome nearer to the decision of the specified problem is meanwhile obvious. Article purpose consists in reconstruction attempt ironproduction of the medieval population of Tomsk Priobie. For object in view achievement iron made process, connected with its uniformphysical and chemical basis, and also carrying over of certain signs on archaeological realities in close comparison a number of the problemsdirected on considerations in the ethnographic literature of each of stages of a production cycle, allocation of common features sees thematerial rests of ferrous metallurgy necessary. In article each stage of iron made process, shined in written sources on stories andethnography of Siberia is analyzed. Ways of extraction and processing of iron ore, technology of reception of charcoal, a construction offurnaces, the device of forge bellows, at last, directly process of fusion are considered. On the basis of the allocated common features intechnologies of metallurgy of iron at the different people, and also on the basis of chronological affinity of archaeological materials andwritten sources on a studied question possibility of extrapolation of the received conclusions to an epoch of the Middle Ages of TomskPriobie is considered.

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