Titov V.S. First social division of labor
Central Asia also belongs to the number of the most ancient centers of agriculture and cattle breeding. Here, in the south-west of the country, on a narrow strip of foothill plain, sandwiched between the rocky spurs of the Kopetdag and the boundless sea of Karakum sands, in the VI millennium BC. e. there were tribes that left a culture called Jeitun culture by archaeologists. Now monuments of this type have also been found in Northeastern Iran, so we are obviously talking about a whole large tribal community of early farmers, similar to the Zagros group.
Like the inhabitants of the Zagros settlements, in the culture of the Dzheytun
tribes clearly combines the new and the old, the progressive and the archaic. Agriculture and animal husbandry have now become a solid foundation for a new type of economy. Imprints of grains of barley and wheat on clay, hundreds of flint inserts for sickles, the most important tool of ancient farmers, speak of this with all certainty.
The Jeytun settlements were located not on the plateaus and in mountain valleys, where the amount of precipitation provided a stable harvest, but in an arid zone, which forced the inhabitants to resort to some kind of artificial irrigation of the fields. Most likely, flood overflows of small rivers and streams flowing from the Kopetdag were used. Certain successes were also achieved in cattle breeding. Cattle were added to the main domestic animals - goats and sheep - at the late stage of the Jeytun culture.
New species economic activity, especially agriculture with the initial forms of artificial irrigation, radically changed the whole face of life and life. Temporary camps located in caves, or camps under open sky gave way to strong, long-term settlements of adobe buildings. True, these settlements were Il. 14 are small: the number of their inhabitants did not exceed, at most, 150-
200 people. However, the progress made in the construction of dwellings is very indicative. The houses excavated in the Jeytun settlement itself, and in other settlements of the Jeytun culture, are one-room buildings with an area of 20-25 square meters. m. Each of them had a massive adobe hearth, the floor was covered with lime plaster, painted red or black. Sometimes the walls of dwellings were also painted from the inside. Appears in relatively in large numbers and earthenware, so characteristic of early agricultural cultures, still crude, but already decorated with simple painting. The admixture of finely chopped straw to the clay used to make dishes indicates the versatile use of the cereals grown by farmers.
However, the signs of relative prosperity in the conditions of the new type of economy should not hide from us the features of deep archaism, vestigial traditions, rooted in the depths of the Stone Age. Archaism is the great role of hunting goitered gazelles and wild asses, especially at an early stage in the development of the Jeytun culture, corresponding to the customs of the steppe hunters of the Mesolithic and Upper Paleolithic.
All tools were made by the Dzheitun tribes from stone and bone: we have a vivid example of the agricultural Neolithic, but the types of flint tools themselves and the technique of their manufacture are closely related to the achievements of the Mesolithic time. Finally, the ongoing production of a large number specialized tools made of bone and flint - all kinds of scrapers, piercers, etc., intended for processing skins, although weaving, presumably, had already originated here [§§§§].
Researchers of the Jeytun monuments believe that the economic unit of society at that time could be small family[*****]. In all-
- Axonometry and reconstruction of a Neolithic dwelling at Jarmo,
- millennium BC. e. (according to Braidwood)
- Plan of an early agricultural settlement, Jeytun, 6th millennium BC. d.
The Jeytun settlements represented, as it were, the northeastern flank of settled agricultural and pastoral tribes. In other regions of Central Asia, there are no such ancient monuments of a settled agricultural culture. There, in the VI-IV millennia BC. e. archaic cultures of hunters, fishermen and gatherers were widespread. True, in a number of places the domestication of small cattle also began here, at least from the 6th millennium BC. e. This is evidenced by the results of excavations at sites of the Hissar culture, which is distributed mainly in the mountainous regions of Western Tajikistan. But the domestication of animals that had begun
Most of all, it was here only an element of a new type of economy with the continuing dominance of the hunting-gathering economy. In any case, the Hissar culture retains a very archaic appearance for a long time. It, in particular, is characterized by a large number of pebble tools, despite the fact that ceramics and adobe structures are completely absent.
CHAPTER II
Ancient farmers and pastoralists
§ 1. general characteristics era
The next period in the history of Dagestan covers the end of the Stone Age, known in science as the Neolithic, or New Stone Age, and the Copper-Stone Age, or Eneolithic. He was marked by many important discoveries and achievements that gave a significant impetus to the further development of the productive forces of primitive society. The most important among them, no doubt, was the transition of a part of the Neolithic tribes from an appropriating economy to a new economy, the basis of which was a productive agricultural and pastoral economy.
The separation of agricultural and pastoral tribes from the rest of the masses of hunters, fishermen and gatherers is rightly regarded by Soviet scientists as the first large-scale development in the history of mankind. public division labor, which had a decisive influence on the further development of society.
The "Neolithic Revolution", as it is customary to call the transition of the Neolithic tribes of the south to a new productive type of economy, contributed to the spread of a relatively strong settled way of life among them. And this, in turn, led to the emergence of previously unknown industries, such as construction permanent dwellings, making pottery, weaving, etc.
As the agricultural and pastoral economy develops, the size of the territories exploited by individual tribes and tribal communities is sharply reduced. The vast territory, previously owned by one hunting tribe, under the new conditions, turns out to be able to provide the necessary food products significantly. large quantity population. Therefore, the collectives that spun off in the process of segmentation now do not leave the original territory, but settle in the vicinity of the mother community, maintaining economic, cultural and ethnic ties with it. The population density of areas with agricultural and pastoral populations is increasing. There are quite strong associations of kindred tribes.
New Traits social structure led to further strengthening tribal communities, strengthening the tribes, the formation of tribal associations. The slender public organization regulates the internal life of tribal communities and their relationships, as well as relations between tribes. Thanks to this, the tribal system, which experienced a period of prosperity, rises in its development to an even higher level.
In the Eneolithic, humanity enters a new era - the era of metal. The most important achievement on this path was the development of copper metallurgy. True, the first metal tools were both few and not perfect enough. However fast development ancient metallurgy had a progressive influence on the growth of productive forces.
Judging by the available data, in the Eneolithic there is a further development of agricultural and pastoral economy, which appears in the materials of the studied monuments in a fairly mature form.
As the economy becomes more complex, exchange develops, permanent ties are established not only between neighboring tribes, but also between the population of relatively remote territories.
The growth of labor productivity, especially the development of cattle breeding, metallurgy and exchange, inevitably led to the emergence of property inequality. Within tribal communities, it manifested itself in a different property status. individual families. The process of property differentiation covered all the links of the tribal organization: the clan, the tribe, and the associations of tribes. Inter-tribal clashes arise, leading to even greater enrichment of the tribal elite, increasing property inequality.
The noted factors were also reflected in the social relations of the Eneolithic society. In this era, the process of replacing matriarchal-clan relations with new ones based on paternal law begins. The tribal nobility stands out. All this leads to the emergence of unequal relations within the clan and tribe.
In general, the combination of the above reasons created the prerequisites for the subsequent decomposition of the primitive communal system.
§ 2. Neolithic
The Neolithic era covers the 5th and, probably, part of the 6th millennium BC in the Caucasus. e.
The Neolithic culture of Dagestan, as, indeed, of the entire Caucasus as a whole, has not yet been studied enough. Our ideas about the Dagestan Neolithic are based on materials from more than twenty monuments of this era. For the most part, these are the remains of settlements with destroyed or severely disturbed cultural layers and workshops where natural deposits of flint were developed. Well-preserved settlements and burial grounds of the Neolithic period in Dagestan have not yet been identified. Therefore, the available materials characterize mainly the development of stone tools in different periods neolithic era. Information about the specific living conditions of the Neolithic inhabitants of Dagestan, their dwellings, ways of farming, and many other interesting and important details We do not currently have a home.
However, the study of labor tools makes it possible to trace the process of development of the productive forces of the Dagestan Neolithic tribes and, on this basis, with the involvement of comparative materials, to recreate in the most in general terms picture of their life. The available materials make it possible to single out two stages in the Neolithic culture of Dagestan: early and late.
Early Neolithic
Monuments of the early Neolithic have now been discovered in the coastal and foothill regions of Dagestan. These are the remains of villages in the vicinity of Makhachkala (in the Tarnair tract) and not far from Buynaksk. The Tarnair settlement is located on the ancient sea terraces, and the Buynak settlement is located on the ancient river terraces. In similar conditions, on ancient river and sea terraces, Neolithic settlements were located in other regions of the Caucasus.
Numerous materials have been collected in both Dagestan settlements: stone tools, blanks for them, production waste. Among them, microblades of regular shape and miniature tools made from them are presented in large numbers. Small prismatic and pyramidal cores were also found, designed to separate microplates. There are frequent finds of points, scrapers, among which rounded ones predominate, and other tools. All these artifacts, in their shape, size and processing technique, are strikingly reminiscent of the corresponding samples of flint implements from the Late Melithic complexes of Dagestan and, like them, were used for the same purposes, mainly for equipping hunting weapons and processing hunting prey.
In addition to the items described, which testify to the continuity with the Late Melithic culture, there are also new types of flint tools that first appeared in the early Neolithic. Among them, we note long knife-like plates and tools from them, leaf-shaped and triangular arrowheads. The latter are carefully processed on both sides by squeezing retouching. Flint retouchers were also found - tools for applying such retouching - in the form of rods triangular in cross section with tapering ends.
In the inventory of both settlements there are also large stone tools, the so-called macroliths. Of greatest interest among them are flattened-wedge-shaped tools with a polished blade. Such tools, which also first appeared in the Neolithic, had a universal purpose. They were used as axes, adzes and even hoe tips. Wedge-shaped adze axes, apparently, were widely used in the North Caucasus, and in particular among the Dagestan early Neolithic tribes.
In general, the early Neolithic culture of Dagestan combines the surviving techniques of the previous Mesolithic era (the widespread use of microlithic inserts) with characteristic features new Neolithic technology (the use of axes, large knife-like plates, arrowheads of a worked out shape, etc.). All this makes it possible to characterize this era as an important link in the continuous, successive development of local cultures at the end of the Stone Age.
Late Neolithic
The next stage in the development of the Dagestan Neolithic culture is presented in the materials of the monuments discovered in the Akushinsky and Gunibsky districts. These are mainly the remains of settlements and workshops where stone was mined.
In the late Neolithic, settlements were still located in river valleys, on ancient river terraces and on the gentle slopes of mountain ranges. When examining and studying them, significant material was collected that acquaints us with the tools of labor of the Late Neolithic population of Dagestan.
Tools were still made of stone, but their appearance has changed significantly. Almost completely disappear from the inventory of microlithic liners in the form of miniature plates of the correct form. In the materials of the Neolithic settlements of the Akushinsky region, located in the tracts of Kakala-Kadala-Khar, Saga-Tsuka, and others, finds of such microblades are extremely rare. Their place is occupied by large knife-like plates, which are found here in large numbers. Large pyramidal cores were also found, which preserved traces of separation of such plates. There are also scrapers, various points, triangular arrowheads with a recess at the base, geo-
Vessels Microplates (1-4), microliths (5-7), drill (5), aggregation tips (9-12), scrapers (13-15), relusher (16), knife-like plates (17-21) v cores (22-24), ax-adze (25), ax-hoe (26), fragment of earthenware (27). 1, 2, 4-6, 22, 23, 25 - Buynakskaya site, 3, 9, 10, 13. 16-18 - Tarnairskaya site, 7, 8, 11, 12, 14, 24, 26 - Akushinsky sites, 15 , 19-21, 27 - Rugudzha sites (Neolithic)
metric inserts in the form of a segment, etc. Among the microlithic inventory, an oval-shaped flint ax-hoe - "pike" type tools - stands out.
No pottery was found in the inventory of the described group of settlements. However, in simultaneous monuments on the territory of Georgia and the Black Sea regions of the Caucasus, this is already found. Based on this, it can be assumed that the tribes that inhabited the territory of Dagestan in the Late Neolithic were already familiar with the manufacture of pottery.
Neolithic monuments, and in the inventory of which ceramics were found, were found in the picturesque surroundings of the villages. Rugudzha, Gunibsky district. They belong to the very end of the Neolithic era.
Ceramics are fragments of vessels made of clay with an admixture of coarsely crushed stone (grass). The color of the vessels is predominantly brown. They are lightly burnt, which is why the shards of the vessels are loose and break easily. At one of the Rugudzha settlements, located in the Malin-Karat tract, a part of a pot was found, decorated along the upper edge with a number of round through holes, made from the inside of the vessel before it was fired. This peculiar method of decorating vessels, which first appeared in the late Neolithic, will for a long time be used by local Dagestan potters in subsequent periods, testifying to the long experience of the ancient local traditions.
The ceramics of the Rugudzha villages introduces us to the most ancient samples of the currently known pottery of Dagestan. It should be noted that in terms of manufacturing techniques and the quality of firing, it closely resembles ceramics from the Neolithic sites of the Western Caucasus.
In the flint inventory of the Rugudzha settlements, microlithic inserts are completely absent. Large knife-like blades and tools made from them: scrapers and points predominate. Of interest are the graters found here, made from small flat river boulders. Judging by the traces of work preserved on them, they were used to grind small amounts of grain and other plant foods.
Changes in the technique of making tools in the Neolithic led to a sharp increase in the need for high-quality flint, which was used for the mass production of large macrolithic tools and a large number of various cutting tools (knives, reaping tools, piercing tools, drills, saws, scrapers, etc.). ). Intensive development of natural flint deposits begins, many flint workshops appear.
In Dagestan, such flint workshops were found in the vicinity of the villages of Akush, Usisha, Tsudahar, and others, rich in high-quality chalk flint. Here, at the sites of ancient flint mining, there are a huge number of flakes, plates, fragments and fragments of flint, which are production waste. Among them come across and blanks of various tools, and sometimes even the tools themselves. Most of them belong to the Neolithic era.
The tribes that developed these deposits supplied flint to the population of neighboring regions. This contributed to the expansion of intertribal exchange, the strengthening of ties between individual tribes.
Emergence agricultural and cattle-breeding farms
The study of the available materials makes it possible to reveal the essence of those deep, fundamental changes that took place in the economy of the Neolithic tribes that inhabited the territory of Dagestan.
Judging by the wide distribution of microlithic inserts in the inventory of early Neolithic sites, intended for equipping hunting weapons, hunting still remained one of the leading branches of the economy. However, the appearance of stone axes, intended for building dwellings and clearing land for crops, as well as long knife-shaped blades used for reaping, testifies to the emergence of agriculture and the transition to a settled way of life caused by it.
In the inventory of Late Neolithic sites, the number of microlithic inserts is sharply reduced. Here, the decline in the economic importance of hunting, which begins to play an auxiliary role in the economic life of the ancient Dagestan tribes, affects minor role. A significant increase in the number of large knife-like blades - reaping knives in the inventory of Late Neolithic settlements - reflects the growing importance of agriculture. At the same time, more complex tools such as sickles became known, in which the cranked wooden or bone frame was equipped with one or more knife-like plates or their sections.
The evolution of the flint inventory of the Dagestan Neolithic sites finds numerous parallels in the south: in the simultaneous sites of Transcaucasia, Western and Central Asia, where in the Mesolithic and early Neolithic the formation of a productive, agricultural and pastoral economy took place. Dagestan materials are especially close to flint tools from the sites of the Southern Caspian and Turkmenistan, the successive stages of development of which in the 6th-5th millennia BC. e. are characterized by the replacement of microlithic tools with new ones, among which big role play large knife-like plates and axes with polished blades. In the well-studied Neolithic sites of Southern Turkmenistan, in addition to stone tools, the remains of long-term adobe buildings, as well as grains of cereals and bones of domestic animals were found, which indisputably testifies to the sedentary nature of the population engaged in agriculture and cattle breeding.
For comparison, we point out that in the vast expanses of the more northern regions of Eurasia, the population of which still engaged in hunting, fishing and gathering, microlithic flint inventory dominates throughout the Neolithic era.
The above facts leave no doubt that the noted features of the evolution of flint tools testify to the formation of the most ancient forms of a productive economy based on agriculture and cattle breeding among the Dagestan Neolithic tribes. This circumstance makes it possible to expand the area of distribution of the early agricultural culture in the Caucasus, which until now was limited to the boundaries of Transcaucasia, by including the territory of Dagestan, and perhaps the entire North-Eastern Caucasus.
The antiquity of Dagestan agriculture is also confirmed by ethnographic materials. Almost all the peoples of Dagestan used boiled or roasted grains of cereals (barley or wheat) as ritual food, which in themselves are one of ancient species vegetable food. In many Dagestan languages, the concept of "food" usually means bread or flour dishes, while all other types of food (including dairy and meat) are, as it were, only an addition to it.
The early emergence of agriculture in Dagestan was largely facilitated by its natural geographical conditions. The foothill and mountain zones were especially favorable for the development of estuary agriculture here - one of the ancient types agricultural production. At the foot of the mountain ranges and on the ancient river terraces, in sufficient quantities for that time, there were small plots of land suitable for this purpose with naturally restored soil fertility. They were processed with minimal cost labor. They did not require artificial irrigation.
In addition, in the mountainous Dagestan there were endemic varieties of cereals suitable for cultivation. Experts name among them some varieties of wheat, membranous and especially naked barley, as well as legumes: lentils and horse beans. According to Academician P. I. Vavilov, the well-known “Persian” wheat originates from the mountainous Dagestan. All this, in the presence of a certain experience in the use of cereal plants, accumulated by generations of gatherers back in the Stone Age, had a positive effect on the transition of the Dagestan Neolithic tribes to agriculture.
Noting the importance of local factors in this process, one cannot underestimate the importance of the cultural ties of the population of the Caucasus with the most ancient centers of agricultural culture in the countries of Western Asia. The existence of such connections in the Neolithic and in subsequent eras is considered proven.
Thanks to these connections, the Caucasian (including Dagestan) tribes had the opportunity to get acquainted with the achievements of advanced ancient Eastern civilizations, which had a positive impact not only on the development of ancient Caucasian cultures but also on the local economy. There is no doubt that during the transition to a new type of economy, the Caucasian tribes were familiar with the achievements of agricultural production in the countries of Western Asia.
The poor knowledge of the Dagestan Neolithic monuments makes it impossible for us to characterize the level of development in this era of cattle breeding, which was another main branch of the new producing economy of the Neolithic tribes. In the neighboring regions of the south of our country and in the countries of Western Asia, the breeding of sheep, goats, pigs, cattle and some other domestic animals was already practiced at that time. Based on this, and bearing in mind that all these types of animals were well known to the population of Dagestan in the subsequent Eneolithic era, we can assume that the local Neolithic tribes, along with agriculture, were also engaged in cattle breeding. This is confirmed by the discovery of the bones of a domestic bull at the Late Neolithic settlement of Malin-Karat.
Thus, the available data testify to the gradual transition of the Dagestan tribes to a productive agricultural and cattle breeding economy as early as the Neolithic, at the end of the 6th-5th millennium BC. e. It marked a gigantic leap in the development of the productive forces, which determined the higher rates of their subsequent historical development.
§ 3. Eneolithic
Monuments of the Eneolithic era have been discovered in Transcaucasia and Dagestan quite recently. Their study has not yet been completed. Therefore, the Caucasian Eneolithic, covering the period from the end of the 5th to the end of the 4th millennium BC. e., cannot be characterized at the present time with the necessary completeness.
So far, the only monument of the Eneolithic era has been discovered on the territory of Dagestan - the lower (main) cultural layer of the Ginchinsky settlement, located in the high-mountainous Soviet region, in the very depths of mountainous Dagestan.
Settlements and dwellings
The Ginchinsky settlement is located in one of the small side valleys formed by the Gidatlinskaya river - the right tributary of the Avar Koisu, one of the main river arteries of the mountainous Dagestan. It occupies a section of an ancient river terrace, partially bounded by its natural cliffs. Where there were no natural barriers, the ancient inhabitants of the settlement built a stone defensive wall up to 1 m thick at the base.
Judging by the peculiarities of the location of the Ginchinsky settlement, it can be assumed that in the 4th millennium BC. e. there was an active process of development by farmers of the river valleys of mountainous Dagestan, the most favorable for the development of ancient agriculture. A direct consequence of this process was an increased population density in these areas, which caused a shortage of land suitable for farming. There is a reason for intensifying inter-tribal clashes, which is directly indicated by the fortified nature of the Ginchinsky settlement.
During the excavations of the Ginchinsky settlement, the remains of quadrangular dwellings were found. Their walls are built of small stone slabs and river boulders, laid dry, without a bonding solution. Construction material, probably mined directly from the river bed.
On the adobe floors of the dwellings, simple hearths were arranged. open type. Small utility pits were made in the floors, which served as storage facilities. Several human burials were found under the floors of dwellings. The custom of burying the dead inside dwellings was widely practiced by many early agricultural tribes.
The discovery of stone house-building in the Ginchinsky settlement is of great interest, since it characterizes one of the distinctive ethnographic features of the culture of mountainous Dagestan. It is noteworthy that at the same time monuments on the territory of Azerbaijan, round-plan and rectangular types of dwellings were found, the walls of which were built either from mud bricks or (less often) from small stones in clay mortar.
economy
In the studied areas of the cultural layer of the Ginchinsky settlement, various archaeological materials were found that characterize various aspects of the life and life of its inhabitants.
The basis of their economy was agriculture and cattle breeding. Findings of numerous stone grain graters and graters testify to farming, and grain graters often have large working surfaces. This circumstance indicates that the inhabitants of the settlement were already filming a relatively large
Flint knife blades (/-4), stone grain grinders (5, 6), Samples of painted ceramics (7-12), fragments of thin-walled pots (13-14), bowl (15), pots (16, 17, 21), colander (18), samples of ornamented dishes (19, 20) from the Ginchinsky Eneolithic settlement (4th millennium BC)
grain harvest. Straw imprints are often found on fragments of ceramics. Harvest knives were also found here in abundance - large flint knife-like plates, similar to Neolithic ones.
In the lower cultural layer of the settlement there are bones of cattle, sheep and goats, which testify to the established composition of the herd. Cattle breeding in this era was home-grown.
Along with cattle breeding, the inhabitants of the settlement hunted deer, bison, aurochs and other animals.
Tools of labor in this era were made mainly of stone and bone. In addition to the above-mentioned stone grain graters and flint reaping knives, the production inventory of the Ginchinsky settlement includes stone pestles, chippers, cutting tools and stone points. Often there are bone awls, piercings, polishing.
In the Eneolithic era, copper metallurgy arose and began to develop in the Caucasus. True, metal products were not found at the Ginchinsky settlement. However, in some simultaneous monuments on the territory of Azerbaijan, they are already found. These are the simplest types of piercings and jewelry, made of copper with a small admixture of arsenic. Special studies have established that for this purpose not native copper, but copper smelted from ore, was used. These facts testify to the origin in the Caucasus in the 4th millennium BC. e. local metallurgy.
Fragments of pottery found at the settlement are of great interest. A study of them shows that ceramic production has made a significant step forward compared to the previous era. At the Ginchinsky settlement, clay bowls, pots, jugs and other types of vessels are already quite diverse in form and purpose, satisfying various needs of everyday life.
Ceramic products from the Eneolithic layer of the Ginchinsky settlement are divided into two groups. The more numerous of them continues the development of local traditions of ceramic production, which originated in the late Neolithic. These are rough thick-walled pots and bowls made of clay mass with abundant inclusions of gruss. All of them are made by hand. Large pots were formed by sequentially building wide clay bands on top of each other. The junctions of the ribbons were then carefully coated, and the finished vessels, after appropriate processing of the outer surfaces, were fired.
When processing the outer surfaces of vessels, it was most often practiced to smear them with a thick layer of liquid clay and engobing, i.e., covering them with a thin layer of well-elutriated clay, which after firing gave a slightly different shade of color. Engobed vessels were often burnished. On the surfaces of individual vessels there are imprints of matting or matting. Some vessels are decorated with ornaments in the form of molded-on pintucked bolsters, horizontal rows of through holes under the rim, or a carved fir-tree pattern.
Almost all of these methods of processing and decorating the outer surfaces of vessels, having arisen in the late Neolithic and Eneolithic, existed in Dagestan for an extremely long time. They are one of the most characteristic ethnographic features ancient culture local Dagestan tribes.
Another group of ceramics from the Ginchinsky settlement is represented by fragments of thin-walled vessels distinguished by more careful manufacturing and good firing. Some fragments are decorated with red or brown paint on a lighter background. Similar ceramics are found<в энеолитических памятниках на территории Азербайджана. Она обнаруживает определенное сходство с керамикой, бытовавшей в IV тысячелетии до н. э. в Северной Месопотамии и Восточной Анатолии.
Finds of this pottery in Transcaucasia and Dagestan testify to the existence of connections between the population of these regions and the countries of the Near East in the 4th millennium BC. e. Fragments of vessels with imprints of matting or matting found at the Ginchinsky settlement testify to the use of plant fibers for the manufacture of coarse wickerwork. Thus, prerequisites are created for the emergence of weaving, the existence of which in the III millennium BC. e. confirmed by archaeological evidence.
The materials of the Ginchinsky settlement acquaint us with the great achievements that the Eneolithic era marked for the population of Dagestan. Judging by the relatively high level of development of agricultural and pastoral economy achieved at that time, the emergence of metallurgy, weaving, and construction, it can be assumed that in the Eneolithic, the transition from matriarchal-clan relations to patriarchal-clan relations begins.
The formation of the ethno-cultural community of the Dagestan tribes
With the transition to a settled agricultural and pastoral economy, the vast, but rather unstable ethnocultural communities of the Mesolithic era are replaced by smaller, but more stable ethnocultural communities of the Neolithic and especially the Eneolithic. Determining the ethnicity of the early agricultural tribes is very important, because it is in their midst that many of the currently existing language groups, including the Caucasian-Iberian family of languages, have their origins.
As already noted, the Neolithic cultures of the Caucasus are still extremely insufficiently studied, as a result of which we are currently deprived of the opportunity to trace the entire course of the ethnocultural development of its population in this era on concrete archaeological material. But even according to the available data, it can be judged that this process proceeded under the influence of the Near East.
The process of ethno-cultural development of the population of the Caucasus in the subsequent, Eneolithic era is drawn more definitely. At that time, in the Eastern Caucasus, on the territory of present-day Azerbaijan and Dagestan, a group of early agricultural tribes settled widely, leaving monuments of a similar culture. The specific features of this culture are manifested in the spread of ceramics with impurities of chopped straw in the clay mass, as well as ceramics decorated with a painted pattern.
According to some Soviet scientists (A. A. Jessen and others), the Eneolithic culture of the Eastern Caucasus is the northern periphery of the larger Eneolithic culture of the East Near East (Iranian) circle. At the same time, another group of tribes developed in Central Transcaucasia and Eastern Anatolia, among which the “Kuro-Araxes” culture was formed, which spread widely in the Caucasus in the 3rd millennium BC. e. Therefore, it can be assumed that the population of the Caucasus in the Eneolithic was not ethnically homogeneous. The process of ethnocultural development of the tribes of the Central Transcaucasia and Eastern Anatolia, on the one hand, and the Eastern Caucasus and Northwestern Iran, on the other, proceeded in different ways.
However, the Eneolithic culture of the East Asiatic area of interest to us was not homogeneous throughout the entire territory of its distribution. The features of local originality can be traced quite clearly in the version presented in the materials of the Ginchinsky settlement.
Based on the materials of the Ginchinsky settlement, we can clearly trace the features of the local originality of the vast Eneolithic culture of the East Asiatic circle. Here we find ceramics with imprints of matting or matting. The ornament in the form of through punctures under the rim, molded-on rollers with depressions is also peculiar. All these specific features of ceramic production, continuing its older traditions, are extremely rare to the south.
Another characteristic feature of the Dagestan variant of the Eneolithic culture is stone house-building, which distinguishes it from other areas where mud brick served as the main building material.
The noted features that characterize the ethnocultural originality of the Dagestan Eneolithic are steadily repeated and developed in subsequent periods of the Copper-Bronze Age and even the Early Iron Age, testifying to the genetic continuity of the long-term autochthonous development of the local population.
Unfortunately, at the present time we are deprived of the opportunity to delineate the territory of settlement of this group of tribes with sufficient certainty. If we take into account the range of smeared ceramics in the monuments of the next, III millennium BC. e., it seems possible to include in it, in addition to Dagestan, part of the regions of Northern Azerbaijan adjacent to the Greater Caucasus, as well as the territory of present-day Checheno-Ingushetia.
The area outlined in this way strikingly coincides with the territory of the settlement of the linguistically related population of the Eastern Caucasus, belonging to the Dagestan and Vainakh groups of languages of the Caucasian-Iberian language family.
In Europe, developed agriculture arose in the Neolithic period. But the transition to the age of metal, although it happened early for some tribes (3rd millennium BC), has not yet led to fundamental changes in socio-economic relations here either.
Tribes of the Caucasus during the Eneolithic.
The largest center of copper production was located on the border of Asia and Europe - in the Caucasus. This center was of particular importance because the Caucasus was directly connected with the advanced countries of the then world - with the slave-owning states of Asia Minor.
The materials of the most ancient agricultural settlements of the Shengavit type (Armenian SSR) obtained in the Transcaucasus allow us to speak about the presence there at the beginning of the 3rd millennium of an agricultural culture, to a certain extent associated with the centers of the ancient East. Settlements of the Shengavit type are also found in the North Caucasus (the Kayakent burial ground and settlements near Derbent).
The cultural upsurge and connections with the ancient eastern centers through the Transcaucasus are especially vividly revealed in the North Caucasus by the artifacts discovered there at the beginning of the 20th century. wonderful burial mounds near Maykop and the village of Novosvobodnaya. The parallels established by these excavations with the culture of the ancient city of Mesopotamia - Lagash (silver vases and their ornamentation), the great similarity of the sculpture of bulls and lions, as well as rosettes and copper axes with the monuments of another ancient city of Mesopotamia - Ura (the period of the so-called I dynasty), the shape of pins from Novosvobodnaya, similar to those found in the city of Kish in Mesopotamia, and, finally, beads, completely similar to those found in Kish and in the most ancient layers of the ancient Indian city of Mohenjo-Daro, testify that the Maykop barrow and the barrow near the village of Novosvobodnaya date back to about the middle of the 3rd millennium BC . e.
By this time, major changes in production and culture were taking place in the North Caucasus. This is especially clearly seen when comparing materials from the Nalchik settlement and burial ground with materials from the Dolinskoye settlement near Nalchik and from large Kuban kurgans.
The Nalchik burial ground and settlement date back to the very beginning of the Eneolithic in the North Caucasus. Only one copper object was found there. The earthenware is very rough. Cattle breeding was still slightly developed. There is no information about agriculture. All tools are made of stone, have a very archaic, Neolithic appearance and are typical for hunting and fishing life. The decorations also retain their former, Neolithic character. At the same time, some finds, perhaps, already speak of some connections with Transcaucasia and Mesopotamia. In the Nalchik burial ground, a crescent-shaped plate-pendant was found, completely similar to the Sumerian ones, made of agate. With the Sumerians (for example, from the city of Lagash), a stone drilled mace is also similar.
No traces of huts were found in the Nalchik settlement. Obviously, light huts served as shelter for its inhabitants.
A completely different picture is presented by the settlement in Dolinskoye. Its inhabitants lived in solid huts with wicker walls plastered with clay. Among a large number of stone tools, many serrated plates were found that served as blades for sickles. Hoes and grain graters were also found, testifying to the development of hoe agriculture. The grain pits near the huts also speak of agriculture. At the same time, cattle breeding also developed. The great development of pottery is evidenced by dishes that have become more diverse; along with all kinds of small vessels, large pots were made, completely similar to those found in the Maykop barrow. 
But the manufacture of copper tools reached a particularly high development at that time. In Maykop and Novosvobodnensky mounds, a large number of copper tools were found - axes, hoes, adzes, knives, daggers, pitchforks, petiole spears - such forms that are characteristic of Mesopotamia and the culture of the island of Crete of the XXVI-XXIII centuries. BC e.
The general rise of culture to a large extent determined the establishment of ties with the ancient Eastern centers, which in turn contributed to the further development of the culture of the North Caucasus. These connections, in addition to the similarities in the forms of copper tools and the analogies noted above in the decorations and shapes of silver vessels, are also manifested in the visual arts: in the drawings engraved on Maikop silver vases, in the sculptural figures of bulls, in the bas-relief images of lions and rosettes that adorn the costume and the magnificent funeral canopy. . The very richness of the grave goods and the huge size of the North Caucasian large mounds, which stand out against the general background of modest ordinary burials, especially emphasize the depth of the changes that took place then in the Caucasus in the social system of local tribes - the ancient unity of the clan was violated, social inequality appeared, tribal nobility began to stand out . The North Caucasus at this time, in the middle of the III millennium BC. e., in terms of development, of course, far ahead of other areas of mainland Europe.
Excavations in Georgia, in the burial mounds of Armenia and Azerbaijan (for example, in Nagorno-Karabakh) reveal the history of ancient, apparently still matriarchal, communities whose economy was based on agriculture and cattle breeding, which arose in the Transcaucasus in the Neolithic period and received in the III millennium BC. e. further development. At the same time, the sites of the Copper Age in Transcaucasia are very similar to the sites of the same time in the territory of Western Asia. The monuments of Transcaucasia, however, are distinguished by a certain originality, indicating the independence of the development of the tribes that inhabited this region. There is no doubt that the population of Transcaucasia, to an even greater extent than the tribes of the North Caucasus, used the achievements of the culture of the peoples of Mesopotamia. Transcaucasia served as the main center for the extraction of obsidian, from which, in the first half of the 3rd millennium, tools were especially readily made in various areas of Mesopotamia and in Elam. The population of Transcaucasia served as a transmitter of southern products to the north. Apparently, it is only by chance that no Eneolithic monuments have been discovered in Transcaucasia, as remarkable as the Maykop barrow of the North Caucasus.
Development of agriculture in the regions of the Lower Danube and Transnistria.
Another Eneolithic center arose in Central and Southern Europe. In the fertile areas of the Lower Danube and the Dniester region, at the end of the 4th and in the first half of the 3rd millennium, the tribes living here, along with hunting and domestic cattle breeding, also engaged in primitive agriculture.
The primeval hoe - a massive stick with a bone, horn or stone tip tied to it - served here as the only tool for cultivating the soil. If we take into account the density of the grass cover of the Central European steppes and the Dniester region, then one can easily imagine what a huge amount of work the first farmers had to spend on cultivating the soil.
These farmers no longer lived in the camps of hunters and fishermen scattered along the dunes on the banks of rivers and lakes with their temporary dwellings - dugouts, but in durable winter huts that made up large settlements. In many areas of this part of Europe, the population remained in the same place for centuries, cultivating the surrounding areas. On the Lower Danube, in the northern as well as in the middle part of Bulgaria, in Hungary, in the northeastern part of Yugoslavia, in Romania and Moldova, these settlements left powerful strata, reaching several meters in thickness and forming "residential hills", not much different from those warmer - the hills of Western Asia, which store the remains of ancient settlements of the early Copper Age. The most striking examples of these settlements are the "residential hills" of the so-called Lower Danubian culture in Bulgaria, the settlement of Vinca in Yugoslavia, the settlement of Turdosh in southern Hungary. In the second half of the 3rd millennium, the production of copper products reaches a very high level here. The so-called "copper age" of Hungary is represented at this time by tools that are not inferior to Chinese and Asia Minor.
Tripolye culture.
The culture of this type has been studied in particular detail in the so-called Trypillia settlements of Ukraine, Northern Romania and Moldova (they are named Tripoli settlements after the place of the first finds made by the Ukrainian archaeologist V.V. Khvoyko near the village of Bolshoye Trypillia, Kiev region.).
In Northern Romania, near the villages of Izvoar and Cucuteni, and in Ukraine along the Dniester, near the villages of Darabani, Nezvishki, near Polivanov Yar and in a number of other places, the remains of Trypillia settlements were burned. The study of these settlements showed that the population lived here for a long time. The first houses were built at the beginning of the 3rd millennium, but in a number of settlements life continued until about the 17th century. BC e. During this huge period of time, the life of Trypillians changed. This is especially noticeable in relation to metallurgy; if in the oldest layers of Cucuteni there are only individual traces of the manufacture of copper products, then in the later layers there are already bronze tools and weapons similar to the bronze products of other centers of Central Europe. The wonderful Trypillia dishes were also changed, which were originally decorated with carved stripes and ribbons, and later richly painted with complex colorful patterns.
Tripoli tribes initially occupied a relatively limited territory in the Eastern and South-Eastern Precarpathians. Their oldest settlements did not extend east of the Southern Bug. However, the achieved level of development of the economy and culture allowed them in the second half of the III millennium BC. e. master the vast territories of the right-bank Ukraine, up to the Dnieper, move south to the Danube and build their settlements in the west - in Transylvania to the Olt River. In the north, the Teterev River serves as the boundary of the Trypillia settlements. In Poland, they are found in the Krakow region.
Tripoli settlements consisted of houses located in a circle. Sometimes there are several such circles. If we assume the simultaneous existence of all houses, then some settlements, for example, the settlement near the village of Vladimirovka in Ukraine, in the Uman region, consisted of almost two hundred houses located in six concentric circles. The center of Trypillia settlements in Ukraine was usually not built up; on a vast square there were only one or two large houses, apparently serving as a meeting place for the inhabitants of the village to discuss community affairs.
The Trypillya ground adobe house consisted of several rooms, some of which served as housing, and the rest were storerooms for supplies. In each room there was a black clay oven, designed for baking bread, there were large vessels for storing grain and a grain grater; in the back of the room, near the window, there was a clay altar with figurines of female deities placed on it. The structure of the house suggests that it was inhabited by several couples. The village itself was an association of kindred families, which included several generations, headed by the eldest in the family. The widely developed cult of the woman-mother suggests that the inhabitants of the Trypillia settlements have not yet passed that stage of development of the primitive communal system, which is characterized by the highest development of the maternal clan. Only in the XVIII-XVII centuries. BC e. among the Tripoli tribes, the importance of cattle breeding in their economy increases, the role of men increases and features appear, especially in the funeral rite, that make it possible to speak of the transition of these tribes to patriarchy.
Eneolithic in Western Europe.
The tribes of Southern and Central Europe differed little from the Trypillians in terms of their level of development. Many of these tribes are characterized by a significant amount of production of copper products. In the mountains of Central Europe, especially in Rudny, already in the III millennium BC. e. copper deposits began to be successfully developed, which later served as an ore base for Central Europe for a long time.
The agricultural tribes that lived north of the Middle Danube basin also lived in large settlements, in large houses with several stoves or hearths. Particularly characteristic in this respect are the so-called Lenschel and Jordanmühl settlements in Upper Austria, Czechoslovakia, northern Hungary, southern Germany, and southwestern Poland. In the alpine zone of northern Italy, Austria, Germany and Switzerland, the same picture of the economy and social structure can be reconstructed in pile settlements on lakes. The population of the regions of France, especially in the first half of the III millennium BC. e., differed by a relatively lower level of development of productive forces. The population that left the monuments of the so-called Seine-Oise-Marne culture, apparently, knew agriculture, which arose here as early as the very early Neolithic, but it was not the main branch of their economy. Hunting still played a significant role, people still lived in dugouts. The same should be said about the regions of Germany located between the Elbe and the Oder, only in the second half of the 3rd millennium did the role of agriculture and cattle breeding increase here. 
In the second half of the 3rd millennium, material culture developed more noticeably in the regions along the upper and middle reaches of the Rhine. In this "part of Germany and France, along with open settlements, vast fortified shelters arise, in which, in case of danger, the inhabitants of the surrounding settlements took refuge. Such fortifications sometimes reach enormous sizes (for example, Mayen and Urmitskoye), although a permanently inhabited village on their territory in size Thus, the vast fortified area was designed only for the temporary stay of residents of the surrounding villages, and huge defensive structures (for their construction in Urmitsa, 60 thousand cubic meters of land were dug up and strong log towers were erected and palisades) were built by the entire population of the surrounding villages.These fortified shelters, apparently, were the centers of the unification of tribal villages and testify to the high level of development of tribal life.
A special culture developed in the northern regions of France and Germany. The most characteristic here is the region of Normandy and Brittany, where the so-called megalithic culture reached its greatest development during the Eneolithic period. 
Agricultural in its essence, it is also characterized by the development of tribal associations, with which megalithic (i.e., built from huge stones) structures are associated. They were erected in memory of the prominent inhabitants of a clan or tribe (menhir), as a family tomb (dolmen) or in the form of a tribal sanctuary (cromlech) (Mengir is a single large stone placed. Dolmen is a crypt of large stone slabs. from menhirs placed in a circle.). The large number of these structures and the enormous weight of the stones of which they consisted, undoubtedly indicate that such structures could only be carried out by the forces of an entire tribe.
A great similarity with the life of the tribes of the megalithic culture was the life of the population of Northern Spain.
The Iberian Peninsula during the Eneolithic period was perhaps the most significant center of copper ore production in Western Europe. Here, especially between Almeria and Cartagena, there was a continuous chain of settlements of metallurgists.
In this area, in every excavated ancient hut, archaeologists find copper ore, fragments of clay crucibles for melting copper, copper ingots prepared for exchange; piles of slag and broken crucibles speak eloquently of the centuries-old and extensive development of copper production, designed by no means only for local needs. From here copper went to France (where only in the Marne mountains there were very small developments of their own), to Northern Europe and, apparently, to the Apennine Peninsula and to Greece. Finds in Spain of painted vessels and red pottery, very similar to both South Italian and Aegean, testify to the ancient connections between these regions of Europe. On the other hand, these connections clearly show the spread to many regions of Western and Central Europe, as well as to Northern Italy and the islands of the Mediterranean Sea, of peculiar so-called "bell-shaped" vessels, the initial center of manufacture of which was the southern and eastern regions of Spain.
Culture of pile postvoeks.
A vivid monument of life in the Eneolithic period of the agricultural and pastoral tribes of Europe are the famous pile settlements in Switzerland and in neighboring areas, now known in the amount of four hundred. The oldest piled buildings date back to the 3rd millennium BC. e. The rest existed at the beginning of the 2nd millennium, when the transition to the Bronze Age was already taking place in most of Europe.
A huge number of stone and bone tools, such as axes, chisels and adzes, were found in piled buildings, which were used for working wood. Many of them were fixed into wooden handles by means of special couplings or bushings made of horn. Thanks to the preservative effect of marsh soils and peat, many wooden tools and household items have been preserved - wooden utensils, tables, benches, parts of looms, boats, spindles, bows and other items. Plant grains, remnants of nets, fabrics and other materials that disappear without a trace under normal conditions have also been preserved. This allows us to restore with great completeness and accuracy the life and culture of the inhabitants of pile settlements, the basis of whose existence was mainly livestock breeding and agriculture. 
Five types of domestic animals were known: bulls, pigs, goats, sheep and dogs. All of these animals were small breeds. The emergence of such breeds of animals is believed to be due to the difficult conditions in which they existed, and first of all, poor care and malnutrition.
The land was cultivated with hoes made of wood, stone, bone or deer antler. Hoes were used to loosen the ground in areas freed from forests near lakes. Bread was reaped with flint sickles. The grain was threshed with wooden mallets and ground into flour or groats on hand-held oval-shaped stone grinders. Traces of chaff mixed with grains of weeds have been preserved in the swampy soil near the pile dwellings. Even bread baked by the inhabitants of pile settlements, which had the shape of small round cakes, survived. The cakes were made from wheat, millet and barley. Peas, lentils, carrots, parsnips, poppies and flax were also sown. There were also fruit trees - apple trees, grapes were bred. The remains of special drilling machines with a bow, which were used to drill holes in the stone, have been preserved. Fire was made with the same bow drill. Flax was spun with the help of wooden spindles, on which clay spinners were put on, which served as handwheels. Fabrics were knitted from threads with wooden crochet hooks, they were also woven on a primitive loom. Clay vessels of various shapes were made. 
With such a level of development of the economy, the existence of primitive natural exchange was also natural: there was a need for materials that were not available in the area, and, obviously, there were some surpluses of livestock products. In the piled buildings of Western Switzerland, there are long bladed knives and polished axes made of a kind of yellowish flint, which was mined and processed in the Lower Loire, in France. From there, such products also dispersed to other regions of France, present-day Belgium and Holland. The population of Swiss pile buildings also received amber from the Baltic, Mediterranean corals and shells. However, the exchange was still very limited in scope and, of course, could not contribute to the decomposition of the primitive communal system.
Piled buildings clearly testify to the strength and strength of the primitive communal order. To cut down and sharpen hundreds and thousands of piles with stone axes, deliver them to the shore of the lake, and then drive them into the marshy soil, a huge amount of labor was required. There should have been a harmoniously organized and friendly team. In those distant times, only a tribal community, welded together by collective production and indissoluble blood ties, could be such a collective.
Each pile settlement and each village of the ancient farmers and pastoralists of the Stone Age was one cohesive whole. All members of this association built their nest among the lakes by common efforts, jointly defended it from enemy attacks. Together they plowed their fields, harvested their crops together, celebrated their communal holidays and celebrations together. 
The division of labor within the community was obviously natural. Men were engaged in hunting, fishing, performed the most difficult physical work, especially clearing the soil for crops and cultivating arable land; they built houses and drove piles, made tools and wooden utensils from stone and bone. Women took care of the crops, reaped, threshed, ground grain on grain graters, baked bread, stored food for future use, and collected wild-growing edible herbs, fruits and berries. Probably, they also prepared clothes, made pottery.
The social affairs of the village, including the organization of labor, as in other similar societies, apparently, were led by a council of adult members of the community, and everyday life was under the control of elected elders and leaders.
It should be noted that the same piled structures were found in other areas of Europe - in Northern Italy, Southern Germany, Yugoslavia and Northern Europe - from Ireland to Sweden. There are their remains in the north of the USSR, in the Vologda region and in the Urals. Such, for example, is a pile settlement on the Modlon River (Vologda Oblast). It was located on a narrow promontory formed by the Modlona River and the Perechnaya River flowing into it. Excavations revealed two rows of houses, the foundations of which were piles driven into the ground.
All houses in the plan approached a quadrangle. The walls were made of wattle, the roof was covered with birch bark. On the floor of the houses and between the houses, various articles made of bone, stone and wood were found. Amber jewelry of Eastern Baltic origin was also found.
In general, the ancient settlement on Modlon gives a picture of the same tightly knit community life as the other pile settlements of the late Stone Age described above.
Tribes of the South Russian steppe in the III millennium.
The steppe spaces between the Dnieper and Ural rivers in the first half of the 3rd millennium were inhabited by tribes who were engaged in hunting and fishing and left us BC. e. mounds in the steppe spaces along the Volga and Don, in the left-bank Ukraine, in the bend and in the lower reaches of the Dnieper. Burials in simple earth pits are found under these barrows. In the "pit" mounds of a later origin, bones of domestic animals were found, the remains of wagons - signs indicating the beginning of cattle breeding, as well as individual copper crafts.
In the coastal zone, the Neolithic way of life was still fully preserved. The life of its population was vividly reflected by the Mariupol burial ground, left on the very shore of the Sea of Azov by a tribe that lived mainly by fishing and hunting, did not yet know metal and preserved in their rituals, in everyday life, in clothing the same features of the Neolithic period that we noted in the North Caucasus based on the materials of the Nalchik settlement and burial ground. Here the archaism of this way of life was even more profound; the tribes living in the coastal zone have not yet mastered even the production of pottery.
Only in the second half of the 3rd millennium - no doubt, in connection with the upsurge that has been outlined in the economy of the North Caucasus - the population of the Azov-Black Sea, Kuban and Caspian steppes begins to develop faster.
This new stage in the history of the tribes that lived in our South during the Eneolithic period is represented by the so-called catacomb mounds in the steppes between the Volga and the Dnieper (The name comes from the method of burial in these mounds: it was carried out in a kind of catacombs - chambers dug in one of the walls at the bottom of the entrance well of the burial.). At that time, tribes closely connected with the North Caucasus lived there. 
They accepted the achievements of the Caucasian tribes in copper metallurgy, agriculture and cattle breeding. These tribes, apparently, formed several associations, to a certain extent differing from each other in the details of their culture. At the same time, it can be noted that catacomb burials are found in the east at an older time than in the west.
Settlement of tribes to the west.
It seems that the tribes that left us the catacomb burials spread from east to west during the 23rd century. BC e. and the following centuries. In the west, they came into conflict with the Tripoli tribes, pushed them back from the Middle Dnieper and penetrated into Poland, where we also find burials in which ceramics are found, close to ceramics characteristic of the catacomb mounds and the North Caucasus.
The reason for such a wide settlement of the tribes that left the catacomb mounds must be sought in the nature of their economy. The process of development of cattle breeding began, the tribes became more mobile; agriculture played a lesser role in their lives. The needs of nomadic pastoralism caused resettlement over large areas. Because of the pastures there were military clashes. It should be noted that the domestication of animals and the guarding of herds were the work of men. Therefore, the cattle belonged to the man and was inherited not by the maternal family, but by the sons of the man. This gradually led to the concentration of property in individual families and eventually split the tribal community, which was now opposed by a large patriarchal family. It consisted of several generations of direct relatives on the paternal side, who were under the authority of the oldest. The growth of wealth and the emergence of property inequality entailed the emergence of slavery. This is marked by the frequent forced burial in the catacombs of slaves along with a man. Livestock was here the first form of wealth, which allowed the accumulation of significant surpluses.
The penetration of the tribes that left the catacomb mounds to the west was not limited to the territory of Poland. Catacomb burials can be traced as far as Slovenia. The so-called corded ornament on local utensils was most closely associated with the ornamentation of vessels from the catacomb burial mounds. This ornament was widespread at the end of the III millennium BC. e. on the territory of present-day Hungary, Austria (in Salzburg) and the northern part of Yugoslavia.
At the beginning of the II millennium BC. e. in Europe, especially in Northern and Middle Europe, cord ornamentation of dishes was widespread. In a number of areas, amphoras of North Caucasian forms appeared (for example, Saxo-Thuringian ceramics), and decorations typical of pit and catacomb burials, primarily wand-shaped pins, also spread.
Significant changes are taking place in the economy of the population of this zone. Cattle breeding is developing there and in many areas it is becoming the main branch of the economy. The economy and culture of more ancient tribal associations are changing in this direction. At the same time, similar changes are taking place in the territory that was recently occupied by the tribes that created the Trypillia culture.
All these facts indicate that at the end of the Eneolithic Europe was undergoing profound changes caused by the westward penetration of the population from the steppes of Eastern Europe, who brought with them a lot of new things in technology, agriculture, ceramic production and other areas of culture. This confirms the assumption of some linguists that the tribes who spoke the oldest Indo-European languages are of Eastern origin, and this explains the presence of related languages of the Indo-European family in the vast expanses from the Indus to Western Europe.
In Central Europe and on the Rhine, tribes that came from the east met and mingled with another, western group of tribes, apparently spreading from Spain (the so-called "tribes of the stakes of the circum-shaped cups"). This mixing could play a decisive role in the process of spreading further to the west of the Indo-European languages, which also subjugated the old languages of Neolithic Europe and formed new languages - the Celtic and other ancient Western European groups of the Indo-European family of languages.
A similar process took place at the beginning of the 2nd millennium in the forest-steppe zone of Eastern Europe. The southern tribes associated with the Dnieper-Desna group of the Middle Dnieper tribes also penetrated here. Their progress is marked by early monuments of the so-called Fatyanovo culture, discovered first in the Bryansk and then in the Moscow region (The culture is named Fatyanovo after the place of finds near the village of Fatyanovo, near the city of Yaroslavl.). Later, they spread throughout the Volg-Oka interfluve, developing cattle breeding, high forms of metallurgy and ceramic craftsmanship, still unknown to the local Neolithic society. However, here their fate was different than in Western Europe. In the forest areas of the Volga-Oka interfluve, they could not successfully apply their southern forms of economy and were absorbed by the local Neolithic tribes. Only their most eastern part, which settled in the territory of modern Chuvashia and the Lower Kama region, continued to exist later.
Pastoral and agricultural societies
About twenty thousand years ago, some groups of hunters and gatherers in search of a livelihood began to raise domestic animals and cultivate permanent plots of land. Pastoral societies are usually engaged in raising livestock, and the main occupation agricultural societies- cultivation of crops. Many societies lead a mixed economy - cattle-breeding and agriculture.
Pastoral societies
Depending on the habitat, pastoralists breed various animals: cows, sheep, goats, camels or horses. Many pastoralist communities continue to exist in the modern world, mainly in Africa, the Middle East and Central Asia. Usually such societies are located where there are rich pastures, as well as in deserts or mountains. These areas are not suitable for productive agriculture, but they can raise different types of livestock.
Pastoral societies usually migrate between different areas in accordance with seasonal changes. Using animals as transport, they cover much greater distances than hunter-gatherer tribes. Since pastoralists are constantly nomadic, they do not accumulate significant material property, although their way of life in this sense is more complex than that of hunters and gatherers. Domestic animals provide a regular supply of food, so pastoral societies are usually much larger than hunter-gatherer communities. Some of them have more than a quarter of a million people.
As they move across vast areas, pastoralists regularly come into contact with other groups. Often they are engaged in trade - as well as war. Many pastoralist societies were peaceful, raising livestock and performing rituals and ceremonies for their community. Others were extremely warlike and made their living by raiding and plundering as much as by pastoralism. Pastoralists show more inequality in the distribution of power and property than hunter-gatherer communities. In particular, leaders, tribal leaders, military leaders often have considerable personal power.
The classic description of a pastoral society was given by Evans-Pritchard, who studied the Newe, a tribe from South Sudan, Africa 2 0) . This people lived mainly due to cattle breeding, but, in addition, the Newe grew some agricultural crops. They settled in villages located at a distance of 8-30 km from each other. In the 1930s, when Evans-Pritchard did his research, the tribe numbered up to 200,000 people. They all spoke the same language and had similar customs. However, they did not have a centralized authority or any (p. 58) government. The Nioe people are divided into tribal groups, which sometimes act together, but mostly live independently.
Each clan has its own territory, the boundaries are often determined by rivers and streams. The land of Newe is not much valued, except perhaps as a place for grazing. During the dry season, clans camp near wells and springs. Much of the Newe's life is dedicated to caring for animals, which are in many ways central to their culture. Neighbors with virtually no livestock are deeply despised by Newe. Every significant phase of life - birth, coming of age, marriage and death - is accompanied by ritual actions involving animals. Men are often addressed by their favorite bulls, and women by their favorite cow they milk.
The Newe are often at war with each other, and also form alliances to protect themselves from outsiders. Wars, like the whole life of the tribe, are connected with cattle. For example, the Newe regularly raid the Dinka, a neighboring pastoral tribe, in order to steal their herds. The Newe proverb says: “More people have died for cows than for any other reason.”
Agricultural societies
Apparently, agricultural societies appeared simultaneously with pastoral ones. At some point, hunter-gatherer groups started planting their own crops instead of collecting wild ones. The first manifestation of this way of life was "gardening", in which small gardens were cultivated with simple hoes and shovels. Until now, many people in the world live mainly due to gardening.
Like pastoralism, horticulture provides a more regular supply of food than hunting and gathering, and therefore larger communities can be based on horticulture. Since gardeners are not nomadic, their cultures may have a greater concentration of property than hunters and even pastoralists. When groups form permanent settlements, regular economic and political links develop between them. Gardeners are militant, although their level of violence is lower than that of pastoral tribes. Plant care people are usually not well versed in the martial arts, while nomadic pastoral tribes often rally into entire predatory armies.
The Gururumba, a New Guinean tribe of about a thousand people, lives in six villages 2 1) . Each village has several plots of land fenced off from each other. Each plot is divided into several plots belonging to different families. Everyone is engaged in agriculture - both adults and children, although men and women are responsible for different types of fruits and vegetables. Each family has several plots, and at different times of the year grows different types of plants there, thus ensuring a regular supply of food. Gururumba culture has a complex ceremonial system of gifts from one family to another, through which the family's status in the community is established. Therefore, Gururumba has vegetable gardens for everyday food and those on which “prestigious” crops are grown. “Prestigious” plants are looked after much more than ordinary ones.
(59str) Gururumba also keep pigs, which, however, are not eaten, but are used as gifts if they wish to acquire a position in the community. Every few years, a grand feast is held, for which hundreds of pigs are slaughtered. Their prepare and give as a gift. At Gururumba. like pastoralists, inequality is much more pronounced than among hunters and gatherers. An important role is played by the leaders of the tribe and leaders. There are also significant differences with regard to the material wealth that people own.
Non-industrial civilizations, or traditional states
The first evidence of the existence of societies, much larger and completely different from primitive ones, dates back to the sixth millennium BC 2 2) . The appearance of cities is associated with these societies, they are characterized by pronounced inequality, the rule of kings and emperors is associated with them. These societies are often called civilizations since writing existed in them, the sciences and arts flourished. However, since orderly forms of government first appeared there, the term is often used to refer to such societies. traditional states.
Most of the traditional states were simultaneously empires. Their territories increased as a result of conquests or the annexation of other peoples 2 3). So it was, for example, in China and in Rome. At the time of its highest prosperity, in the 1st century AD. The Roman Empire stretched from Britain to the Middle East. The Chinese empire, which existed for more than two thousand years, until the beginning of this century, covered most of East Asia - the territory occupied by modern China. There are no traditional states left in the modern world. Some of them, like China and Japan, survived more or less intact well into the early twentieth century, but nonetheless all of them were either destroyed or converted to more modern systems.
The very first traditional states appeared in the Middle East, usually located in fertile river valleys 2 4) . The Chinese empire was formed around the second millennium BC. At the same time, powerful powers existed in India and Pakistan. A number of large traditional states, such as those of the Aztecs and Incas, existed in Mexico and in the rest of Latin America. The Inca state was founded about a century before the appearance of the Spanish adventurer Pizarro, who landed in South America in 1535 with a very small detachment of soldiers. However, thanks to an alliance with local tribes hostile to the Incas, he managed to conquer this state and establish Spanish rule in the occupied territory. The conquest of Pizarro was the first episode in a series of confrontations between the West and traditional cultures, as a result of which these cultures completely disappeared.
Mayan civilization
As an example of a traditional state, we will consider another American civilization - the Maya, who inhabited the Yucatan Peninsula in the Gulf of Mexico (60pp). The Mayan civilization flourished in the 4th-8th centuries AD. The Maya built complex places of worship around which residential buildings were located. All buildings were made of stone. The structures were in the form of pyramids, with a temple at the top. Tikal, the largest of the pyramids, was surrounded by a city of 40,000 inhabitants. It was the main administrative center (actually the capital) of the Mayan state.
Mayan society was ruled by an aristocratic warrior-priest class. They were the highest religious dignitaries of the Maya, as well as warlords, and were in constant war with neighboring communities. The majority of the population were peasants, who had to give part of their crops to the aristocratic rulers, who lived in conditions of a kind of luxury.
Why the Mayan civilization disappeared is not exactly known, but it is most likely that it was conquered by neighboring tribes. By the time the Spaniards arrived, the Mayan state was long gone.
The main features of the traditional state
Until the beginning of the modern industrial age, the traditional state was the only type of society in history in which a significant part of the population was not directly involved in food production. In tribes of hunters and gatherers, as well as in agricultural and pastoral societies separation labor was very primitive. Classes were mainly divided into men's and women's. In traditional states, a more complex system of professional occupations already existed. The division by gender was still strictly observed, and the share of women was mainly the work of the house and in the field. However, men developed such specialized occupations as the craft of a merchant, courtier, government official, and soldier.
There was also a simplified division into classes between groups of the aristocracy and the rest of the population. The ruler stood at the head of the "ruling class", which retained the exclusive right to the highest social position. Members of this class tended to live in relative material comfort and luxury. On the other hand, the living conditions of the bulk of the population were often extremely difficult. Slavery was typical for these societies.
Only a few traditional states were founded as a result of the development of trade and were ruled by merchants. Most of them either arose as a result of conquests or built up powerful armed forces 2 5). Traditional states took care of the development of professional armies - the forerunners of modern types of military organization. The Roman army, for example, was an organization with excellent discipline and intensive training of warriors and was the basis on which imperial expansion was built. In the culture of traditional states, the beginnings of the mechanization of war are already visible. The swords, spears, helmets and siege equipment of the Roman army were made by professional craftsmen. The number of casualties in wars between traditional states and in their clashes with "barbarian" tribes has increased many times over in comparison with previous periods.
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Societies in the modern world
To date, traditional states have completely disappeared from the face of the earth. Although hunter-gatherer tribes, as well as pastoral and agricultural communities, continue to exist to this day, they can only be found in isolated areas - and, in most cases, even these few groups disintegrate. What was the reason for the destruction of societies that determined the entire human history two centuries ago? The answer, if formulated in one word, would be industrialization - the emergence of machine production based on the use of inanimate energy sources (such as steam and electricity). Industrial societies in many ways fundamentally different from any of the previous types of social organization, and their development led to consequences that affected far beyond the borders of their European homeland.
Industrial societies
Modern industrialization originated in England as a result of the "industrial revolution" that began in the 18th century. The term refers to a range of complex technological changes in the way people earn their livelihoods. These changes are associated with the invention of new machines (for example, a loom), the use of new energy sources in production (especially water and steam), as well as the use of scientific methods to improve production. The pace of technological innovation in industrial societies is unusually high compared to traditional ones, as inventions and discoveries in one area lead to even more discoveries in other areas.
The main distinguishing feature of industrial societies is that the vast majority of the working population is employed in factories and offices, and not in agriculture. In traditional societies, even the most advanced, only a small part of the population did not work on the land. The relatively low level of technological development simply did not allow more than an insignificant group to be exempted from agricultural production. In industrialized countries, on the contrary, only about 2-5% of the population is employed in agriculture, and their efforts are enough to provide food for the rest.
Compared to previous social systems, industrial societies are much more urbanized. In some industrialized countries, over 90% of citizens live in cities, where most of the jobs are concentrated and new ones are constantly being created. The size of these cities far exceed those that existed in traditional civilizations. In the cities of the new type, social life has become impersonal and anonymous, and we come into contact with strangers much more often than with those we know personally. Organizations of enormous scale are emerging, such as industrial corporations and government agencies, whose activities affect the lives of almost all of us.
Another feature of industrial societies is related to their political systems - much more developed and efficient than traditional forms of government. In the era of traditional civilizations, political power in the person of the monarch or emperor had practically no direct influence on the mores and customs of the majority of subjects who lived in completely independent settlements. With the process of industrialization, transport and communication became much faster, which contributed to the greater integration of "national" communities. Industrial (63str) societies were the first nation states. Nation-states are political communities separated by clear boundaries separating them from each other and replacing the vague boundaries of traditional states. Nation-state governments have exclusive power over many aspects of the lives of their citizens and establish laws that are binding on all living within their borders.
Types of human societies |
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Main characteristics | Time of existence |
Hunter and Gatherer Communities |
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They consist of a small number of people who support their existence by hunting, fishing and collecting edible plants. Inequality in these societies is weakly expressed; differences in social status are determined by age and gender. | From 50,000 BC e. until now, although they are now on the verge of extinction. |
Agricultural societies |
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These societies are based on small rural communities; there are no cities. The main livelihood is agriculture, sometimes supplemented by hunting and gathering. These societies are more unequal than hunter-gatherer communities; These societies are headed by leaders. | From 12,000 BC e. until now. Today, most of them are part of larger political entities and are gradually losing their specific character. |
Societies of pastoralists |
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These societies are based on the breeding of domestic animals to satisfy material needs. The sizes of such societies vary from a few hundred to thousands of people. These societies are usually characterized by pronounced inequality. They are ruled by leaders or commanders. | The same period of time as that of agricultural societies. Today pastoral societies are also part of larger states; and their traditional way of life is being destroyed. |
Traditional States, or Civilizations |
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In these societies, the basis of the economic system is still agriculture, but there are cities in which trade and production are concentrated. Among the traditional states there are very large ones, with a population of many millions, although usually their sizes are small in comparison with large industrial countries. Traditional states have a special government apparatus headed by a king or emperor. There is a significant disparity between the various classes. | Around 6000 B.C. e. until the nineteenth century. By now, all traditional states have disappeared. |
First world societies |
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These societies are based on industrial production, with a significant role given to free enterprise. Only a small part of the population is employed in agriculture, the vast majority of people live in cities. There is significant class inequality, although less pronounced than in traditional states. These societies constitute special political entities, or nation-states. | From the eighteenth century to the present. |
Second world societies |
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Societies that have an industrial base, but their economic system is dominated by central planning. Only a relatively small part of the population is employed in agriculture, the majority lives in cities. There is a significant class disparity, although the goal of the Marxist governments in these countries is to create a classless system. Like the countries of the first world, do they form special political communities, or nation-states? | From the beginning of the twentieth century (after the October Revolution of 1917 in Russia) to the present. |
Third world societies |
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Societies in which the majority of the population is employed in agriculture, lives in rural areas and uses mainly traditional methods of production. However, some agricultural products are sold on the world market. In some third world countries there is a system of free enterprise, in others - central planning. Third world societies are also nation states. | From the eighteenth century (as colonized countries) to the present. |
(64pp) The application of industrial technology was by no means limited to the peaceful process of economic development. Already from the first steps of industrialization, industrial production was called upon to serve military purposes, and this radically changed the way war was waged, since weapons and types of military organization were created much more advanced than in non-industrial cultures. Economic dominance, political integrity, and military power have formed the basis of the unstoppable expansion of the Western way of life that the world has experienced over the past two hundred years.
The once numerous traditional cultures and states disappeared not because their way of life was “inferior”. They were unable to withstand the impact of that combination of industrial and military relics, developed in Western countries. Idea authorities, and the closely related concept ideology, occupy a very important place in sociology. Power refers to the ability of individuals or groups to serve their own interests even when others oppose it. Sometimes power is associated with the direct use of force, but almost always it is accompanied by the emergence of ideas (ideologies) that justify actions of those in power. In the case of the expansion of the West, the invaders justified their" actions by the fact that they allegedly brought "civilization" to the "pagan" peoples with whom they came into contact.
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EARLY DOMESTIC AGRICULTURAL AND CATSTORAL CIVILIZATIONS
Introduction
1 Formation of domestic civilizations of the Ancient World. neolithic revolution
2 The main features of the development of early domestic civilization centers of the Ancient World
3 Features of the protection of historical monuments of early domestic agricultural and pastoral civilizations
Conclusion
List of used literature
Introduction
The first, oldest socio-economic formation was the primitive communal system. It lasted from the time of the formation of man to the transition to a class society and, therefore, was the longest epoch in the history of mankind, due to the slow pace of development of society in its early stages. All stages of the primitive communal system are united by the collective nature of production and consumption, due to the fact that the productive forces were still very undeveloped. That is why the further development of the productive forces, the transition from a typically primitive consuming economy to a producing economy, the division of labor (primarily the separation of pastoral and agricultural peoples) complicated the entire system of social relations and ultimately led to a transition to other types of social development.
It is generally accepted that primitive society is divided into periods according to the main materials used to make tools: the Stone Age, the Eneolithic (Copper Stone Age) - transitional from stone tools to metal ones, the Bronze Age and the early Iron Age. This periodization, of course, does not mean that tools from wood and bone were not made in the Stone Age, and from stone in the Bronze Age. We are talking about the predominance of one or another material.
Table 1
| ARCHAEOLOGICAL AGES | CHRONOLOGICAL FRAMEWORK |
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| I. Stone Age | |
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| 1. Paleolithic | 1500–100 thousand years ago |
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| 2. Mesolithic | | 12–8 thousand years BC |
| 3. Neolithic* | | |
| II. Copper Age* | | |
| III. Bronze Age* | | |
| IV. Iron Age* | | from 1 thousand BC to the present day |
| * In Europe and Asia |
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1 Formation of domestic civilizations of the Ancient World. neolithic revolution
The settlement of primitive man on the territory of the Russian Federation took place in the era of the ancient Stone Age (Paleolithic), characterized by the predominant use of stone for the manufacture of tools and weapons. Wood, bone and other materials were also used. The main occupations of small human groups were hunting and gathering. Traces of the habitation of an ancient man who came from the Transcaucasus were found in the North Caucasus and in the Kuban region. Sites of the Mousterian Paleolithic culture (100-35 thousand years ago) were discovered by archaeologists in the middle Volga region and other regions. Burial discoveries, according to scientists, testify to the development of religious beliefs. In the Upper or Late Paleolithic (40-35 - 10 thousand years ago), people of the modern type (Cro-Magnons) lived in certain areas of Eastern Europe and Siberia (the Urals, Pechora, the West Siberian Lowland, Transbaikalia, the valley of the middle Lena). They own numerous archaeological sites (Avdeevskaya camp, Sungir, Kostenki, Malta, Buret, etc.). Collectives of blood relatives on the maternal or paternal lines (clan) lived in the conditions of the last (Valdai) glaciation. Adapting to the harsh natural conditions, they improved the technique of processing stone, bone, etc., mastered the construction of dwellings; introduced specialization in hunting and other crafts. During this period, hunting for large mammals prevailed: mammoths, cave bears, etc. The comprehension of the surrounding world was reflected in sculptures and cave paintings (Kapova Cave).
During the period of the Middle Stone Age (Mesolithic), people adapted to the changing natural conditions associated with the retreat of the glacier and the formation of the modern relief, climate, flora and fauna. Small groups of hunters and fishermen moved into the areas freed from glaciation. With the invention of the bow and arrows in hunting, the prey of medium and small mammals, waterfowl acquired a large place; large areas of inland water bodies contributed to the development of fisheries. Researchers attribute the emergence of group burial grounds to this period (Oleneostrovsky burial ground, etc.).
At the last stage of the Stone Age (Neolithic), the formation of branches of the productive economy began: agriculture and cattle breeding. In the manufacture of stone tools, grinding and polishing, as well as sawing and drilling, were used. Pottery, spinning and weaving arose. For transportation, boats, skis, sledges were used. By the end of the Neolithic, individual copper items appeared. In the course of the complication of tribal society, associations of individual clans appeared - tribes. At the same time, groups of tribes led the same type of economy, which is confirmed by excavations and studies of pit-comb and other archaeological cultures of the Neolithic (Lyalovskaya, Balakhna, etc.).
In the era of the Copper Age (Eneolithic), agriculture, cattle breeding and copper metallurgy developed initially in the southern regions of Eurasia. In the 4th-2nd millennium BC. e. settlements of settled farmers and pastoralists existed in the North Caucasus; Ukraine, Moldova (Trypillian culture); steppes of the South of Russia (pit culture), etc.
According to the latest archeological data, the oldest traces of human habitation on the territory of Russia date back to pre-Shellian times (3 - 2 million years ago) and were found in Siberia, the North Caucasus and the Kuban region. In particular, the Bogatyri and Rodniki sites on Taman are 1.5 million years old. Sites of the next stage, the Shellic (730-350 thousand years ago) were found in the Voronezh, Kaluga, Tula, Volgograd regions. Approximately 150 thousand years ago, the Acheulean cultures were replaced by the Mousterian ones. Sites of this type are widespread in the European part of Russia. During these cultures, the physical type of a person also developed - local species of Australopithecus, later - archanthropes, paleoanthropes (including their own types of "Neanderthals"), who were replaced by a modern neoanthrope.
In Russia, there is the oldest neoanthropic site in the world - Kostenki in the Voronezh region (50 thousand years ago). Settling, neoanthropes formed the first archaeological culture of neoanthropes - the Kostenkovo-Streltsy culture (50 - 30 thousand years ago, sites: Markina Gora, 44 - 34 thousand years BC, Voronezh region; Eliseevichi, 35 - 25 thousand years before AD, Bryansk region; Sungir, 28 - 20 thousand BC, Vladimir region, etc.). Its genetic heir is the Kostenkovo-Avdeevka culture, which existed until the Mesolithic era. This culture includes sites: Gagarino, 22 - 21 thousand BC. e., Lipetsk region; Zaraysk, 22 - 21 thousand BC e., Moscow region; Avdeevo, 22 - 21 thousand BC e., Kursk region; Yudinovo, 14 - 13 thousand BC e., Bryansk region, etc. Anthropological type of a person - Caucasians.
NEOLITIC REVOLUTION(neolitic revolution) - a revolutionary revolution in production that occurred in late primitive society, usually associated with the transition from an appropriating to a producing economy and created the prerequisites for the formation of an early class society.
The term "Neolithic Revolution" was introduced in 1949 by the English archaeologist Gordon Child, who was close in his conceptual preferences to Marxism and proposed the term by analogy with the Marxist concept of "industrial revolution". This revolution, according to Child, "transformed the human economy, gave man control over his own food supply", thus creating the conditions for the emergence of civilization. Since the concept of "industrial revolution" by the middle of the 20th century. already became generally accepted, the term "Neolithic revolution" quickly gained popularity. Other variants of the names of this historical event (for example, "revolution in food production", "agricultural revolution") did not receive the support of specialists.
Currently, the Neolithic Revolution is considered one of the three major revolutionary changes in the economy - along with the industrial and scientific and technological revolutions.
The study of archaeological materials (especially in America) and the way of life of the surviving backward peoples has shown, however, that a rigid connection between social stratification and the transition to a productive economy is by no means found everywhere. There are peoples who continued to engage in appropriating economy, but have already gone far from primitive equality. For example, the Indians of Alaska 18-19 centuries. They were mainly engaged in fishing and hunting, but by the time the Europeans arrived, they already had such institutions as chiefdoms, wars between tribes, and patriarchal slavery.
To explain this contradiction, one should pay attention to the most general signs of a producing economy, identified by the Soviet historian V.M. Bakhta:
settled way of life;
stock creation and storage;
interval in the sequence of works;
cyclical work;
expansion of the range of activities.
Of these five signs, only three are sufficient for the development of social stratification - the 1st, 2nd and 5th. The most important feature is (2): it is the accumulation of rare material goods (first of all, food) that gives rise to the division into rich and poor. Therefore, the Soviet historian V.A. Back in the 1980s, Bashilov proposed to understand by the Neolithic revolution transition from the production of a subsistence minimum to the stable production of a surplus product regardless of the particular forms of economy under which this transition occurs.
The logic of the concept of V.A. Bashilova is like that. Before the Neolithic Revolution, the production of excess food was random and unsustainable, because there were no technologies for the long-term preservation of scarce food. When methods are discovered for long-term storage of food reserves (smoking, salting, etc.), then a powerful incentive immediately arises not to immediately eat all the prey, as happened in early primitive society, but to accumulate it for a “rainy day”. Owners of a larger supply can guarantee a stable standard of living not only for themselves, but also for their loved ones. Therefore, they acquire a higher social status. The accumulation of wealth stimulates predatory raids on neighboring tribes in order to take away their accumulation. Thus, for the formation of social stratification, sufficient conditions may arise even if the appropriating economy is preserved.
The thesis about the stable production of a surplus product can be perceived as an indication of an increase in the level and quality of life during the Neolithic revolution: before it, people lived on the verge of starvation, and after that, as a result of the transition to more advanced technologies, life became more abundant. This understanding was widely held until the 1970s, when the American anthropologist Marshall Sahlins proved it wrong.
In his monograph Economics of the Stone Age(1973) M. Sahlins, summarizing ethnographic and historical information, formulated a paradoxical conclusion: the early farmers worked more, but had a lower standard of living than late primitive hunters and gatherers. The early agricultural peoples known in history worked, as a rule, for a much larger number of days than those who survived to the 20th century spent on getting food. primitive hunters and gatherers. The idea of the hungry life of backward peoples also turned out to be very much exaggerated - among farmers, hunger strikes were more severe and regular. The fact is that under the appropriating economy, people took far from nature everything that it could give them. The reason for this is not the imaginary laziness of backward peoples, but the specificity of their way of life, which does not attach importance to the accumulation of material wealth (which, moreover, is often impossible to accumulate due to the lack of technologies for long-term food storage).
A paradoxical conclusion arises, which is called the “Sahlins paradox”: during the Neolithic revolution, the improvement of agricultural production leads to a deterioration in living standards. Is it then possible to consider the Neolithic revolution a progressive phenomenon if it lowers the standard of living? It turns out that it is possible if we consider the criteria for progress more broadly, without reducing them only to average per capita consumption.
What exactly was the progressivity of the Neolithic revolution can be explained by the model proposed by the American economists and historians Douglas North and Robert Thomas ( cm. rice.).
In the early primitive society, common property dominated: due to the small population, access to hunting grounds and fishing grounds was open to everyone without exception. This meant that there was a general right to use the resource before it was captured (whoever was the first to capture it) and an individual right to use the resource after the capture. As a result, each tribe, collecting prey from the next site where it migrated, was interested in the predatory consumption of shared resources "here and now", without concern for reproduction. When the resources of the territory were depleted, they left it and went to a new place.
Such a situation, when each user is concerned with maximizing personal immediate benefits without worrying about tomorrow, economists call the tragedy of common property. As long as natural resources were abundant, there were no problems. However, their depletion due to population growth led about 10 thousand years ago to the first ever revolution in production and in the social organization of society.
According to the Sahlins paradox, hunting and other types of appropriating economy provided much higher labor productivity than agriculture. Therefore, while the demographic burden on nature did not exceed a certain threshold value (in the figure, the qd value), primitive tribes did not engage in a productive economy, even if there were suitable conditions for this (say, plants suitable for cultivation). When, due to the depletion of natural resources, the productivity of hunters began to fall, then population growth required a transition from hunting to agriculture (in the graph - from an initially higher level of VMPh to a trajectory of a lower VMPa), or the extinction of hunters from starvation. In principle, a third way out is also possible - to stop the demographic pressure at the critical limit. However, primitive people rarely resorted to it due to a lack of understanding of environmental patterns.
In order to move from hunting to farming, fundamental changes in property relations are necessary. Farming is a fundamentally settled type of activity: for many years or constantly, farmers exploit the same piece of land, the harvest from which depends not only on the weather, but also on the actions of people. Fertile land is becoming a rare resource that needs protection. There is a need to protect cultivated lands from attempts to capture them by strangers and to resolve land conflicts between fellow tribesmen. As a result, it begins to take shape state as an institution whose main economic function is the protection of property rights.
D. North and R. Thomas proposed to consider the main content of the First Economic Revolution (as they called the Neolithic Revolution) the emergence of property rights that secure exclusive rights individual, family, clan or tribe to the ground. Overcoming the tragedy of common property made it possible to stop the fall of the marginal product of labor and stabilize it.
Table 2. INCREASE IN POPULATION DENSITY AND MASS DURING THE NEOLITIC REVOLUTION
The progress of the development of society in the course of the Neolithic revolution, therefore, is manifested not directly in the growth of the average per capita standard of living, but in an increase in the density and population (Table 3). The shift from hunting and gathering to farming has been estimated to increase population density hundreds of times over. Since this transition did not take place in all regions of the planet, the growth of the total population of the planet occurred more slowly - not hundreds, but only tens of times.
It should be taken into account that in different regions of the planet the Neolithic revolution took place asynchronously and with different regional specifics. There are three ancient primary foci:
Western Asia (the territory of modern Iran, Iraq, Turkey, Jordan), where by 7-6 thousand BC. an agricultural and cattle-breeding economy was formed (growing wheat, barley and peas, breeding goats) and the first cities of the planet appeared (Chatal-Guyuk, Jarmo, Jericho);
Mesoamerica (the territory of Mexico), where by the end of the 3rd - the beginning of the 2nd millennium BC. an agricultural economy based on the cultivation of maize developed; the territory of Peru, where by the second half of the 2nd millennium BC. the economy of settled agriculture (cultivation of maize) is being formed, while maintaining the great importance of fishing.
The Neolithic revolution in each of the primary centers proceeded for a long time, for 2–4 millennia. When the new manufacturing economy began to spread from these centers to the surrounding regions, the adoption of already accumulated production and social experience sharply reduced the transition time. In the modern world, backward peoples who did not survive the Neolithic revolution survived only in remote corners of the planet with special natural and climatic conditions.
2. The main features of the development of early domestic civilization centers of the Ancient World
In the 1st half of the 1st millennium BC. e. iron metallurgy spread over a large territory of Russia (except for the northern and northeastern regions), in connection with which the decomposition of primitive communal relations accelerated. At the same time, in the North - in the taiga and tundra, in harsh natural conditions, the archaic primitive way of life was preserved. In the North Caucasus, iron tools were created from the 9th-6th centuries. BC e. under the influence of iron and blacksmithing in Transcaucasia. The transition to the production of iron is traced on the material of the Koban, Srubnaya, Abashev and other cultures. The formation of the Iron Age in the Black Sea steppes coincided with the presence of the Cimmerians there, and then the Scythians. 2 economic structures were formed: cattle-breeding-nomadic in the steppes and sedentary-agricultural in the forest-steppes. The emergence of handicraft centers, which developed into urban ones, with a significant military potential, contributed to the emergence of a state among the Scythians. Scythian and Scythian-like cultures of the 7th-4th centuries. BC e. on the territory of Southeastern Europe constituted the western part of a large cultural and historical community, which was formed mainly among the nomadic pastoral tribes of Eurasia (the so-called Scythian-Siberian cultural and historical community).
In the 6th-5th centuries. BC e. ancient cities arose on the northern and eastern coasts of the Black Sea, which united in the 5th century. BC e. in the Bosporan state, which also included Sinds, Meots, and other tribes. Greek slave cities were centers of high ancient culture, they established close economic, political and cultural ties with the Scythians and other peoples. In the 4th c. BC e. began the movement from the Urals to the Volga region of the Sarmatian tribes. The Sarmatians defeated the Scythians and in the 3rd c. BC e. settled in the steppes of the Northern Black Sea region and in the North Caucasus. In the steppe zone, by the turn of the 2nd-1st centuries. BC e. became the dominant Sarmatian culture. The Scythian state, which existed from the 2nd century BC. BC e. mainly on the territory of the Crimea and along the banks of the lower Dnieper, was influenced by ancient cities and Sarmatian culture.
Iron-making production developed in the forest-steppe and forest zones of the Dnieper basin. The population of the Zarubintsy culture (2nd century BC-2nd century AD) in the upper and middle parts of the Northern Dnieper and Desenye regions is correlated by some scientists with the tribes of the Balts, by others with the Proto-Slavs. In the forest area of Eastern Europe from the 8th c. BC e. by 6th-7th centuries n. e. there were cultures associated with different ethnic groups. On the territory of the Volga-Oka interfluve, monuments of the Dyakovo culture were found, to the South and East from the middle reaches of the Oka and to the Volga (basins of the Tsna, Moksha, Sura rivers) the Gorodets culture spread. The carriers of these cultures were the Finno-Ugric tribes, the ancestors of Meri, Vesi, Meshchers, Muroms and Mordovians. Representatives of the Ananyino culture (8th-3rd centuries BC) occupied the left bank of the Middle Volga and the Kama region. They are considered the ancestors of the Udmurts and Komi. From 8-5 centuries. BC e. iron was being developed in the Far East. Here the centers of ferrous metallurgy were formed.
In the process of the great migration of peoples to the Northern Black Sea region in the 3rd century. n. e. the Goths came, in 375 the Huns. Ancient cities ceased to exist. In the 2nd half of the 3rd c. in the steppe and forest-steppe from the left tributaries of the Dnieper to the Danube, the poly-ethnic Chernyakhov culture spread. Its carriers were Dacians, Getae, Sarmatian-Alans, late Scythians, Goths, Slavs. From the middle of the 1st millennium AD. e. there was a decomposition of primitive communal relations among many agricultural and pastoral peoples living in Eastern Europe and Siberia. In 550-562, the union of nomadic tribes of the Avars moved from the Urals and the Volga region to the North Caucasus and the Northern Black Sea region. In the middle of the 6th c. in Central Asia, a tribal union of the Turks created a state - the Turkic Khaganate, which played an important role in the consolidation of the Turkic-speaking population of Eurasia. In the 60s. 6th c. The Turks defeated the state of the Hephthalites in Central Asia. At the turn of the 6th-7th centuries. East Turkic and Western Turkic Khaganates arose. In 638-926, in the southern Primorye, there was a state of the Mohe tribe and another - Bohai, which successfully fought against the emperors of Tang China. In the 2nd half of the 6th c. Turkic-speaking Bulgarian Balanjar tribes moved from the Trans-Urals to the North Caucasus. In the 1st third of the 7th c. in the Sea of \u200b\u200bAzov, the state formation Great Bulgaria arose. In the middle of the 7th c. nomadic and semi-nomadic tribes of the Lower Volga region, the North Caucasus, the Sea of \u200b\u200bAzov and the Don steppes were included in the Khazar Khaganate. The Finno-Ugric tribes of the Middle Volga region and immigrants from Great Bulgaria created in the 10th century. state - Volga-Kama Bulgaria. At the turn of the 9th-10th centuries. there was a process of formation of the state among the Alans in the North Caucasus.
3 Features of the protection of historical monuments of early domestic agricultural and pastoral civilizations
Archaeological monuments of the Bronze Age have been discovered almost throughout Eurasia. By the 1st half of the 3rd millennium BC. e. include monuments of the Bronze Age in the Caucasus, in the Northern Black Sea region, etc. At the end of the 3rd -1st quarter of the 2nd millennium BC. e. The technology of bronze smelting was mastered by the tribes of the forest-steppe and forest zones of Eastern Europe, Western Siberia, and the Altai-Sayan region. The primitive communal form of social organization was preserved for the most part. Scientists have established the existence in the Bronze Age of independent territorially isolated population groups with peculiar features of spiritual and material culture (cultural groups, archaeological cultures, cultural and historical communities). In the southern zone (Caucasus, Central Asia, partly South Siberia) agricultural and cattle-breeding complexes with developed handicraft production arose. In the steppe, forest-steppe, and partly in the forest zones, the cattle-breeding type of economy prevailed, with the auxiliary role of agriculture. In the forest (taiga) zone, cattle breeding was combined with hunting and fishing. There were long-term settlements where handicraft production developed. In the early Bronze Age, in the Transcaucasus and the North-Eastern Caucasus, there was a Kuro-Araks agricultural and pastoral culture. Relations were maintained with the civilizations of the Middle East. In the late Bronze Age, the Koban culture spread in the central regions of the Caucasus. On the territory of the steppes of Eastern Europe lived cattle-breeding tribes of the pit cultural and historical community, which arose back in the Copper Age. At the end of the 3rd - the middle of the 2nd millennium BC. e. in the Upper and Middle Volga regions and the interfluve of the Oka and Volga lived carriers of the Fatyanovo and Balanovo cultures. In the forest-steppe zone of the Don region, the Middle Volga region and the Southern Urals in the middle of the 2nd millennium BC. e. the tribes of the Abashev cultural and historical community lived, which are characterized by a high level of development of metallurgy, based on the Ural and Volga copper deposits. In the 2nd half of the 2nd - the beginning of the 1st millennium BC. e. on the territory from the Urals to the Left Bank of the Dnieper, pastoral and agricultural tribes of the Srubnaya cultural and historical community were located. The Seima-Turbinsky cultural complex, which originated in the Sayano-Altai region, spread thousands of kilometers to the West. In Siberia, the Afanasiev culture in the upper reaches of the Yenisei and the Altai steppes belonged to the Eneolithic - the early stage of the Bronze Age, the Glazkov culture in the Baikal region and the Ymyyakhtakh culture in the basin of the middle Lena belonged to the early Bronze Age. The spread of metallurgy in Eastern Siberia is associated with the influence of the Okunev culture, presumably formed in the Minusinsk Basin and forced out to the East by the tribes of the Andronovo cultural and historical community. The Andronov tribes occupied in the 2nd half of the 2nd - the beginning of the 1st millennium BC. e. the territory from the Urals to the Yenisei and from the taiga zone to the northern regions of Central Asia (Alekseevsky settlement, etc.). The Karasuk culture (13-8 centuries BC) was found in the upper reaches of the Yenisei, Ob, in the Sayano-Altai region. In the south of the Far East in the 2nd half of the 2nd - the beginning of the 1st millennium BC. e. there were Sinegai, Lido, Evoron and other cultures. In the Bronze Age, the process of social division of labor intensified, the exchange between tribes increased. The craft has become an independent sphere of production. The heads of large patriarchal families possessed considerable wealth; property differentiation intensified, clashes between tribes became more frequent. In the Bronze Age, alliances of tribes arose, later described by ancient historians and geographers.
In the vicinity of the mountainous Krasnodarya, the northwestern part of the Black Sea region, the Republic of Adygea, dolmens became widespread - megalithic ritual and burial structures. They are mainly located in the mountain-forest zone. Dolmens appeared in the Western Caucasus about 5,000 years ago in the Early Bronze Age. In recent years, there has been enough literature on these mysterious representatives of the dolmen culture, archeological monuments of world significance. The most famous mass dolmen settlements within the weekend routes are Novosvobodnenskoye (more than 400 pieces), Detuaksko-Dakhovskoye (about 120 pieces); in the area of the town of Sober-Bash, some researchers counted about 40 dolmens. In dollars R. Abin found up to three dozen tombs, and not far from the village. Pshada lead excursions to 9 dolmens.
In this area, the Scythian culture (7th - 4th centuries BC) is represented by monuments that have received world recognition - the Voronezh, Elizabethan barrows, which provided reference samples of the ancient art of the animal style. These finds are stored in the Golden Storeroom of the State Hermitage, the State Museum of the East.
In the era of the early Iron Age (VIII - IV centuries BC) in the basin of the river. The Kuban and the Sea of Azov formed a vibrant culture of the Meots - tribes of farmers and cattle breeders, fishermen and artisans. They left behind numerous fortified settlements - Elizavetinsky, Vasyurinsko-Voronezhsky, Starokorsunsky on the right bank of the Kuban, Tenginsky on the river. Labe, Steppe I - III in the Sea of \u200b\u200bAzov, etc.
The richest stone tombs of the Sindo-Meotian nobility were found in the Elizavetinskiye, Semibratnye, and Karagodeuashi burial mounds.
The western part of the Krasnodar Territory is the only place in the Russian Federation where ancient monuments are located: the settlements of Phanagoria (the capital of the Asian Bosporus) and Germonassa (Taman), the city of Gorgippia (Anapa), Taman Tholos and the residence of Chrysaliska (village "For the Motherland" of Temryuksky district), the oldest ship anchorages near the capes of Tuzla and Panagia.
Conclusion
So, on the basis of the theoretical analysis carried out in the control work, the following conclusions were drawn.
The periodization of the history of the Ancient World is a complex and not yet fully resolved scientific problem. There are many approaches to the periodization of history. In this paper, the following scheme is considered:
I. The oldest stage, which lasted approximately 1.5 - 2 million years, covers the initial phases of anthropogenesis. The lowest stage of savagery, the time of the prehistory of the economy and material culture;
II. The stage covered a significant part of the Stone Age (Early Paleolithic) and lasted more than 1 million years. The primitive-appropriating stage corresponded to the middle stage of savagery;
III. The emergence of modern man and the early stages of his history (late Paleolithic, Mesolithic, in some areas of the earth the entire Neolithic). The time of a developed appropriating economy, a stage of the highest savagery;
IV. Accumulation of experience in the reproduction of life's blessings, the beginning of the domestication of plants and animals, while maintaining the appropriating type of economy as a whole (late Mesolithic - early Neolithic). The lowest stage of barbarism;
V. VIII-V millennium BC e. - the beginning of the era of the productive economy, corresponding to the middle and highest levels of barbarism;
VI. In the IV-III millennium BC. e. on the basis of the development of productive forces and production relations in irrigation agriculture, the first civilizations arise, which mark the final decomposition of the primitive and the formation of a class society.
VII. At the boundaries of the Bronze Age and Early Iron Age, the development of nomadism began, which was another major stage in the division of labor.
In the control work, the main agricultural and cattle-breeding centers of the Ancient World are considered.
In the Russian Federation, as in other countries, there is legislation regulating the protection of historical monuments, including the history of the Ancient World.
The western part of the Krasnodar Territory is the only place in the Russian Federation where ancient monuments are located
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