Playing chips of Kraskinskoye walled town
Such mass findings as playing chips are analyzed in this paper. These artifacts are well-known in Bohai sites and Kraskinskoye walled town is not an exception. Quite the contrary, many years of research of the medieval town allowed to get a considerable collection of chips and to have an idea about leisure-time of its inhabitants. The authors of the paper make detailed description of these artifacts paying attention to their color, material, degree and quality of processing. Questions of chips’ location are also considered: in which objects of the site their highest concentration is observed, how the quantity of these artifacts varies from one construction horizon to another. The paper also quotes East Asian games which had such chips as an integral component. Authors make a conclusion that a game of “mill” type known in Korean historiography as “gonu” was spread among Bohai population. The popularity of this game grew gradually. It is testified by finding of the game board drawn on a stone slab in this ancient town.