THE USE OF ANIMAL JAWS IN BRONZE AGE CENTRAL KAZAKHSTAN

Abstract

This article considers the types of tools made from livestock mandibles, which have been found in Bronze Age settlements in Central Kazakhstan. In this article, we consider the study of bone artifacts in the Atasu microdistrict (Atasu, Myrzhyk, Akmaya, Akmustafa) and the Taldysai settlement. A feature of the settlements that existed in the second half of the 2nd - early 1st millennium BC.

Keywords

• central kazakhstan
• settlement
• late bronze age
• bone tools
• tanning
• mandibles.