Wooded fire-making apparatus scithian time from burial of Ala-Gail-3 in the Altai mountains

Purpose: Evolution firing devices reflects the adaptation to the changing conditions of life. In Central Asia, wood fire-making apparatus were found in the area of the Tarim Basin, is characterized by increased aridity climate. In Southern Siberia were known only three findings derived from the objects of the Scythian period. But back in 1974 at burial ground Ala-Gail-3 was found a set of two wooden objects, which refers to the fire-making apparatus. Mound, where he was found, dated from the second half VI – V century B C. Results: Small wooden board and drill were placed in a leather bag, found among the funerary equipment that accompanied the old man killed by a blow to the head coinage. In a monograph devoted to the publication of materials from Scythian burial complexes Chuya river valleys and Ursul, the author of the excavation, it was doubted in the original definition of this finding as a wood firemaking apparatus. It was due to the absence of signs of charring in the outbreaks It was due to the absence of signs of charring in the outbreaks. Detailed familiarity with the findings showed that a functional apparatus, and not a small copy. He was operated for a long time, and judging by the harmony of foci, it could still be used for other purposes. Similar appearance and characteristic traces of harmony are a number of wooden fire appliances from Scythian burial Xinjiang. Using the appliance Scythian type and its technology is characterized by extreme simplicity and does not require any special technical knowledge and material costs. The main instrument was a metal knife. Knife carefully and accurately, both parts were cut, and the surface is well treated. This has a positive impact on the safety of fire-making apparatus. But leather belt tinder box, which was placed in wooden objects, remained poor. Because of the strong deformation of its shape and the device is not traced. Despite the fact that the faint traces of charred, recorded only on one side of the hearth, to find burial Ala-Gail-3 has all the characteristics of the wood fire-making apparatus. Throughout the development of the Scythian culture of male warriors wore belts, which hung various objects: daggers, hammers, quivers, whetstones, pendants, mirrors and bags of fabric and leather. Conclusion: Find from Ala-Gail-3 is the earliest known waist belt tinder box. From there begins a very long Eurasian cultural tradition stretching from Scythian times through the Middle Ages. Decorated belt tinder box are fixed at the burials of the Turks in Siberia and Mongolia. In the late middle Ages there are Turkic-Mongolian type belt tinder box that have the original form and a beautiful ornament. Author suggested that the mobile lifestyle nomads, small and lightweight wood fire-making apparatus not only hang the belt, but placed in a quiver with arrows.