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| Explorations in Turkestan : Expedition of 1904 : vol.2 |
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| Stone Implements from the Anau Kurgans. | |
| from the South Kurgan, all others from the North Kurgan. |
Citation Information
478 LARGER STONE IMPLEMENTS OF THE KURGANS AT ANAU.
Catalogue No. 39 A.N.K. can best be described as a " doughnut-shaped " stone of fine-grain quartzite conglomerates. Its diameter is 3 inches and that of the hole 0.7 inch (fig. 505). Its use can be only conjectural—perhaps a ceremonial mace-head, perhaps a chucking-stone in some game.
Fig. 506, from + 3o feet in terrace II of North Kurgan, I have classed with figs. 507 and 508 and also with the stones found in the South Kurgan (figs. 509 and 5 i o) . It is a large stone io inches by 17 inches by 2.5 inches, weighing 331-3-g. Russian pfund ( =13.59 kilos). It has a hole cut near the top to form a handle, which is much worn by use. I know of no analogous form among stone implements
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of other countries. Professor Puinpelly suggested the possibility of its use as a standard of weight. This seemed the more likely when we came upon other smaller stones, all broken, but showing the same form.
From the loose wash earth of the South Kurgan the workmen took a millstone-shaped stone (fig. 51i), 12 inches in diameter, with a 2.5-inch hole in the center. The edges were much scarred and chipped in a manner that could not have come from horizontal use against a similar stone; nevertheless, I took it to be a more or less modern implement from a Persian mill, of which there were several on the little watercourses flowing from the mountains south of our work.
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