Tools & tillage: a journal on the history of the implements of cultivation and other agricultural processes (7.1992/1995)

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of an ard is impossible in the position in
which it was published by E. K. Tshernysh,
Fig. 2,1 (Tshernysh 1982, 233 fig. 18). The thin
spread out tines would hamper the forward
motion of the tool.
Vegetable remains would accumulate and
the soil would stick in them. It was more ef-
fective to use a common sharp stick and if the
piece of horn was used in that way it would
require to have all the tines cut off except one.
This was not done. Supposedly the horn had
had another function. If turned in the oppo-


Fig. 1. The sites of finds of ancient tilling imple-
ments in South Eastern Europe: 1) Simferopol, 2)
Belogorsk, 3) Novy Ruseshty, 4) fortified settle-
ment of Belsk, 5) Polessje, 6) Sergejevsk, 7) Kapla-
novitshy, 8) Balky, 9) Tokary, 10) Masliny, 11)
Verchnjaja Majevka. □ Die Fundorte vorgeschicht-
licher Bodenbearbeitungsgerate in Siidosteuropa:
1. Simferopol; 2. Belogorsk; 3. Novy Ruseshty; 4.
Die befestigte Siedlung Belsk; 5. Polessje; 6. Ser-
gejevsk; 7. Kaplanovitshy; 8. Balky; 9. Tokary; 10.
Masliny; 11. Verchnjaja Majevka.

site direction (Fig. 2.2) and bound to a stick it
formed a tool that could be used with the
function of a rake, whereas there are no in-
dications from a functional point of view that
this horn from the village of Novy Ruseshty
was part of an ard.
Fig. 2. A horn tool from the village of Novy Ru-
seshty. 1-2 variants of its usage (after Tshernysh
1982, Fig. 18, not to scale). □ Geweih-Gerat aus
der Siedlung Novy Ruseshty. 1-2: Verschiedene
Anwendungsmoglichkeiten (nach Tshernysh 1982,
Fig. 18, nicht mahstabsgerecht).