Archaeology, Ethnology & Anthropology of Eurasia 52 (3) 2024   doi:10.17746/1563-0110.2024.52.3.091-098

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Textiles from the Ust-Voikary Hillfort Site (Based on Materials from 2012–2016 Excavations)

A.V. Novikov¹ and Y.A. Senyurina²

¹Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography, Siberian Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences, Pr. Akademika Lavrentieva 17, Novosibirsk, 630090, Russia

²OOO “Research Survey Ethnoarchaeological Center”, Uralskaya 14, Khanty-Mansiysk, 628013, Russia

The article describes 366 samples of clothing (some of them attributable), collected in 2012-2016 from cultural layers of the 15th to middle 18th centuries at the Ust-Voikary hillfort site in the subarctic zone of Western Siberia. We provide technological characteristics: size, state of preservation, color, properties of threads and fibers, interlacing system, technological errors, cut, and traces of repair. Both animal and plant fibers are present, and plain and twill weaving are attested. Ethnographic and zoological data provide information on the textile technologies used by residents of the polar zone of Western Siberia, and allow us to compare them with those known from other sites. We conclude that types of textiles for clothing remained virtually the same from the 15th to the 18th centuries. Fabrics, mostly woolen, were imported.

Keywords: Northwestern Siberia, Ust-Voikary hillfort site, wool fiber, plant fiber, plain weave, twill weave