Archaeology, Ethnology & Anthropology of Eurasia 36 (4) 2008

Annotation:  Environmental Changes in the Mongolian Altai during the Holocene New Data on Radiocarbon Chronology of Neolithic Ceramics from the Volga-Kama Region 1929 Year Tree-Ring Chronology for the Altai-Sayan Region (Western Tuva) Early Urilsky Culture Assemblage from Bukinsky Kluch, Bureya River Representations of Warriors on Early Medieval Turkic Bronze Plaques from Eastern Central Asia New Categories of Wooden Artifacts of the Mid 1st Millennium AD from the site of Vis II (Vychegda Ba The Han Chariot from Noin Ula Mound 20 (Mongolia) Defense Constructions of Fort Umrevinsky (Based on 2002–2004 Archaeological Excavations) Petroglyph Sites of Kazakhstan and Western Central Asia as Part of the Archaeological Landscape: Ne Zoomorphic Images in Eastern Slavic Embroidery of Southwestern Siberia New Ethnic Holidays in the Sayan-Altai The Origin of the Early Nomadic Populations of Tuva: Craniometrical Evidence The “Mediterraneans” of Southern Siberia and Kazakhstan, Indo-European Migrations, and the Origin of Human Humerus from Khoroshevsky Island: History and Context   

New Categories of Wooden Artifacts of the Mid 1st Millennium AD from the site of Vis II (Vychegda Basin)

G.M. Burov.

This article gives a description of wooden artifacts recovered from an oxbow peat bog at the Vis II settlement in the vicinity of Lake Sindorskoye (Komi Republic, Russia). The article attempts to identify their function determining a number of artifacts as cherkan parts, a jaw trap used in trapping small fur-bearing animals. The assemblage described also comprises bow drills with elaborate string attachment, a composite tool, hoes, blind parts covering windows of huts without a chimney, a hanging hook, a ski, handles of various objects, a ball probably used in play, and a human fi gurine considered to be a cult object or toy.