Stone tools and armament from the Bronze Age settlements of the Atasu and Taldysai microdistricts of Central Kazakhstan

Abstract

The full article gives a complete characterization trasological analysis of tools settlements Atasu and Taldysai neighborhoods. On a basis of analysis of tracing research it was reconstructed and revealed all stages of technological process of manufacturing and processing of bronze products. Numerous different tools made of stone, a bone and the clay, used in metallurgy were found at settlement. Among them the special place occupies the stone stock serving by the basic tool at extraction, enrichment and preparation of ore to melting. Except for that basically there are the instruments adapted to crushing and grinding of ores and slags to what testify stone hammers traces of strong deterioration. Stone instruments from settlement of show rather expressive series concerning manufactures and occupation of the population. Using the tracing research it is possible to see the analysis, that they participated in metallurgy, processing of minerals, clay for economic needs, the opportunity to determine functional assignment of instruments is given and also to date them. In the conclusion we shall note, that instruments all over again
were made in stationary conditions, and then applied to destination. As a whole, characterizing shape
of manufacture of inhabitants of settlement of Atasu, Myrjyk and Taldysai, it is possible to reconstruct
their occupation by metallurgy, and also that fact, that instruments for manufacture were made of local
raw material.