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Early medieval armor from Southern Siberia. / Hudiakov, Y. S.; Filippovich, Y. A.
In: Archaeology, Ethnology and Anthropology of Eurasia, Vol. 45, No. 1, 9, 01.01.2017, p. 104-111.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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T1 - Early medieval armor from Southern Siberia
AU - Hudiakov, Y. S.
AU - Filippovich, Y. A.
PY - 2017/1/1
Y1 - 2017/1/1
N2 - This article describes iron armor plates, weapons, and a horse harness from a randomly discovered site at the village of Filimonovo in the Kan Valley, southern Siberia. The reconstructed lamellar armor consists of several horizontal rows of vertically arranged and joined narrow iron plates. Parallels suggest a date and cultural attribution. The group of fi nds includes three-bladed arrowheads, stirrups, bipartite bits, buckles, twisted loops, and bronze plaques. These items of horse harness are typical of the Old Turkic culture from the middle of the fi rst millennium AD. The armor, the decorated stirrups, and horse harness from Filimonovo apparently date to the late 500s, when the Yenisei Kyrgyz were forced into vassalage to rulers of the First Turkic Khaganate. We suggest that the Filimonovo assemblage is a cache. The tradition of caching weapons and armor was practiced by various peoples of southern and western Siberia during the Xiongnu-Xianbei age and in the Early Middle Ages. Based on the analysis of various types of plates, a reconstruction of the late fi rst millennium AD Old Turkic armor is proposed.
AB - This article describes iron armor plates, weapons, and a horse harness from a randomly discovered site at the village of Filimonovo in the Kan Valley, southern Siberia. The reconstructed lamellar armor consists of several horizontal rows of vertically arranged and joined narrow iron plates. Parallels suggest a date and cultural attribution. The group of fi nds includes three-bladed arrowheads, stirrups, bipartite bits, buckles, twisted loops, and bronze plaques. These items of horse harness are typical of the Old Turkic culture from the middle of the fi rst millennium AD. The armor, the decorated stirrups, and horse harness from Filimonovo apparently date to the late 500s, when the Yenisei Kyrgyz were forced into vassalage to rulers of the First Turkic Khaganate. We suggest that the Filimonovo assemblage is a cache. The tradition of caching weapons and armor was practiced by various peoples of southern and western Siberia during the Xiongnu-Xianbei age and in the Early Middle Ages. Based on the analysis of various types of plates, a reconstruction of the late fi rst millennium AD Old Turkic armor is proposed.
KW - Early Middle Ages
KW - Lamellar armor
KW - Old Turks
KW - Protective armor
KW - Southern Siberia
KW - Weapon cache
KW - Yenisei Kyrgyz
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U2 - 10.17746/1563-0110.2017.45.1.104-111
DO - 10.17746/1563-0110.2017.45.1.104-111
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85036503525
VL - 45
SP - 104
EP - 111
JO - Archaeology, Ethnology and Anthropology of Eurasia
JF - Archaeology, Ethnology and Anthropology of Eurasia
SN - 1563-0110
IS - 1
M1 - 9
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