scholarly journals Phytolith research in the South of Western Siberia

2017 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 110-119
Author(s):  
M. Yu. Solomonova ◽  
M. M. Silantyeva ◽  
N. Yu. Speranskaya
Keyword(s):  
Bronze Age ◽  
Plant Material ◽  
Vegetation Change ◽  
Initial Period ◽  
Archaeological Site ◽  
Archaeological Sites ◽  
Burial Mound ◽  
Left Bank ◽  
Burial Ground ◽  
The South

<p>The research of modern and fossil soils was conducted at three archaeological sites: Nizhniy Kayancha, Novoilinka-3, and Tytkesken-2. Nizhniy Kayancha is a burial ground (dated 5th century BC) situated on the left bank of the Katun River (400-700 m above sea level). An archaeological site is a burial mound with seven mounds which can be visually separated within the site, and which are placed by small chains with 2–3 objects. The south mound of the first group was examined for a phytolith analysis. Еhe Novoilinka-3 settlement (dated 3rd millennium BC) is situated in the north of Kulunda, in the southern part of a hill formed by the false River Burla. The Tytkesken-2 settlement is situated on the verge of the stream Tytkesken, the left tributary of the Katun River, on its second terrace above the flood plain.</p><p>Geobotanical research was conducted in the territory of the archaeological sites under study. Grass phytoliths of modern flora were examined. Soil samples from different layers of the walls of excavation sites were collected. Phytolith extraction was based on the methods described by A.A. Golyeva. 20 g of soil, and 100 g of plant material of each species were processed during the initial period. The examination of the phytoliths of leaves, stalks and flower heads from the samples obtained from the plant material was carried out with the help of an optical microscope (Olympus BX-51). The phytoliths were counted to 250 (in ashed plants) and to 300 (in soils) particles.</p><p>More mesophytic plant communities of the ancient epochs have been reconstructed for all three examined archaeological sites. The territory of the Nizhniy Kayancha burial ground was covered by birch forest at the time prior to formation of the archaeological site. The territory of Novoilinka-3 settlement was covered by pine and birch steppificated forest in the Eneolithic period, but the territory was deforested as the settlement developed. Several stages of vegetation change have been reconstructed for the Tytkesken-2 archaeological site. This includes deforestation of pine forest and further steppe formation in the late Neolithic Age, prairiefication in the Eneolithic Age and new steppe formation in the Bronze Age up to the present time.</p>

scholarly journals THE SCYTHIAN BURIALS WITH A BRIDLE FROM THE DNIPRO PRYPORIZHYA

2018 ◽  
Vol 27 (2) ◽  
pp. 287-315
Author(s):  
O. D. Mogylov
Keyword(s):  
Bronze Age ◽  
Hydroelectric Power Plant ◽  
Archaeological Site ◽  
Archaeological Sites ◽  
Burial Mound ◽  
Hydroelectric Power ◽  
Long Time ◽  
Scythian Period ◽  
Autochthonous Population ◽  
The Village

The article is devoted to the publication of materials of several Scythian burials on the Dnipro Pryporyzhya territory in 1927—1932. An archeological expedition was founded under the direction of Academician D. Ya. Yavornytsky, in connection with the construction of the Dnieper Hydroelectric Power Plant. Many Scythian antiquities had been explored in the archaeological sites of other epochs. Its members were actively working well-known archaeologists, beginning specialists and local historians: A. V. Dobrovolskyj, M. Ya. Rudynskyj, S. S. Gamchenko, P. I. Smolichev, M. O. Miller, T. T. Kyraniv, G. G. Martens, V. A. Grinchenko, P. A. Kozar, F. M. Sapyan, L. E. Kistyakivskyj and other. Almost S. Magura conducts his researches in this region. The cemetery at the Gadiucha Balka on the northern right bank of Dnipro river in Zaporoizhya included both barrows and prevailing burials without embankments, and stone laying on the surface. Necropolis was founded in the Vth century BC, and was used in the IVth BC. There is a high percentage of burials with weapons comparing with similar monuments. The most interesting is the burial 3 in group 1. There are two pits without bones under the stone pavement. A set of bronze arrowheads, an iron spear, bits with cheeck-peaces, and also a part of the horn of a deer was founded in this cenotaph. Mound grave predominated over burials without a mound in the necropolis near Dniprozavodbud. Necropolis functioned in the V—IV centuries. BC. Two burials from the grave 36 survived. They belonged to a woman, accompanied by a mirror and a necklace, as well as a warrior with a quiver set. Barrow 4 contained a ruined burial. The skeleton was accompanied by a bronze cheeck-peace. Mound grave burials dominated in the burial groups of the Kichkas while stone pavements were only a quarter. In the grave 6 at the Kichkas railway station, the burial was performed in the pit, where the arrowhead was found. Details of the bridle and bronze knife were founded at the periphery of the complex. The archaeological site refers to the early middlescythian time. Barrow 9 in the village Kushugum was girded with a stone fastener and had 0.79 m height and a diameter — 24 m. Objects of bridle (zoomorphic plates, buckles) was founded in its burial mound. A burial in an oval pit was inside. The skeleton lay stretched out on its back, its head to the west. Arrowheads was in a grave. The burial can be dated the 2nd quarter — the middle of the 5th century BC. It is established that the tradition of the construction of stone piles in the non-kurgan cemeteries on the Lower Dnieper goes back to the Bronze Age and the pre-Scythian period. Perhaps this indicates the residence of a part of the sedentary autochthonous population here for such a long time, which has carried this tradition through the ages.

Reconsidering Coastal Archaeological Sites in Late Bronze Age Cyprus: Tochni-Lakkia and the South-Central Coastscape

2019 ◽  
Vol 382 ◽  
pp. 33-69 ◽  
Author(s):  
Georgia M. Andreou ◽  
Artemis Georgiou ◽  
Thomas M. Urban ◽  
Kevin D. Fisher ◽  
Sturt W. Manning ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Bronze Age ◽  
Archaeological Sites ◽  
Late Bronze Age ◽  
The South ◽  
South Central

Piecing Together Sha Po

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mick Atha ◽  
Kennis Yip
Keyword(s):  
Hong Kong ◽  
Bronze Age ◽  
Archaeological Site ◽  
Archaeological Sites ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Six Dynasties ◽  
Social Landscape ◽  
Salt Industry ◽  
A Site ◽  
Historical Periods

Hong Kong boasts a number of rich archaeological sites behind sandy bays. Among these backbeaches is Sha Po on Lamma Island, a site which has long captured the attention of archaeologists. However, until now no comprehensive study of the area has ever been published. Piecing Together Sha Po presents the first sustained analysis, framed in terms of a multi-period social landscape, of the varieties of human activity in Sha Po spanning more than 6,000 years. Synthesising decades of earlier fieldwork together with Atha and Yip’s own extensive excavations conducted in 2008-2010, the discoveries collectively enabled the authors to reconstruct the society in Sha Po in different historical periods. The artefacts unearthed from the site—some of them unique to the region—reveal a vibrant past which saw the inhabitants of Sha Po interacting with the environment in diverse ways. Evidence showing the mastery of quartz ornament manufacture and metallurgy in the Bronze Age suggests increasing craft specialisation and the rise of a more complex, competitive society. Later on, during the Six Dynasties-Tang period, Sha Po turned into a centre in the region’s imperially controlled kiln-based salt industry. Closer to our time, in the nineteenth century the farming and fishing communities in Sha Po became important suppliers of food and fuel to urban Hong Kong. Ultimately, this ground-breaking work tells a compelling story about human beings’ ceaseless reinvention of their lives through the lens of one special archaeological site.

Processed cereals and pulses from the Late Bronze Age site of Akrotiri, Thera; preparations prior to consumption: a preliminary approach to their study

2001 ◽  
Vol 96 ◽  
pp. 27-40 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anaya Sarpaki
Keyword(s):  
Bronze Age ◽  
Plant Material ◽  
Archaeological Sites ◽  
Late Bronze Age ◽  
Rare Occurrence ◽  
Processing Stage ◽  
Legume Flour

All ground cereal and pulse plant material from the site of Akrotiri, Thera was studied through a binocular stereoscope microscope in order to detect its nature and its processing stage. The presence of various processed crops was detected, such as barley, wheat and probably legume flour. The very rare occurrence of these finds from archaeological sites forces us to define them and prepare an appropriate methodology of research.

scholarly journals Bracelet from an Elunino burial at the Teleut Vzvoz-I site

2020 ◽  
pp. 5-14
Author(s):  
I.A. Valkov
Keyword(s):  
Bronze Age ◽  
Trace Analysis ◽  
Western Siberia ◽  
Average Diameter ◽  
Raw Material ◽  
Archaeological Sites ◽  
Forest Steppe ◽  
Burial Ground ◽  
Radiocarbon Dates ◽  
The Bronze Age

The article studies a stone bead bracelet found in an Early Bronze Age burial of the Elunino archaeological culture during the excavation of the Teleut Vzvoz-I burial ground (heterogeneous in time) in the south of Western Siberia (Forest-Steppe Altai). According to a series of calibrated radiocarbon dates, the Elunino burial ground at the Teleut Vzvoz-I site was used in the 22nd–18th centuries BC. The artefact under study was found in double burial No. 16 of the indicated burial ground, on the wrist of an adult (gender is not established). The bracelet in-cludes 66 stone beads, as well as one stone base. This piece of jewellery is unique in terms of technique, as well as the sacral meaning embedded in it. The ornament found on the beads bears no analogies to those discovered in the well-known Bronze Age archaeological sites of Western and Eastern Siberia. The present publication con-siders the morphological and raw material characteristics of the bracelet, as well as the specifics of its production and use. In this study, trace analysis was performed, i.e. the analysis of macro- and micro-traces left on the sur-face of the item as a result of its production and subsequent use. All traces were examined using an MBS-10 stereoscopic microscope at a magnification of ×16–56. It was found that some of the beads in the bracelet were made of serpentinite. The nearest sources of this stone are at least 250–300 km away from Teleut Vzvoz-I. The beads are made by counter-drilling, drilling of blind holes, polishing and grinding. This find is unique due to orna-mental compositions found on several beads in the form of oblique notches on side faces. The extremely small size of the beads (average diameter of 3.3 mm; average thickness of 1.4 mm) makes the pattern invisible to the naked eye. Thus, it is concluded that the ornament had a sacred meaning, and the bracelet itself served as an amulet. Despite no finds of ornamented bracelets dating back to the Bronze Age in Western Siberia and adjacent territories, typologically the bracelet bears analogies to the antiquities of the Okunevo culture, the Yamna cultural and historical community, as well as in the materials of the Bronze Age archaeological site of Gonur Depe (Turk-menistan). The study of the bracelet demonstrates the relevance of performing trace analysis of such items from other archaeological sites.

The Eastern Baltic

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Valter Lang
Keyword(s):  
Material Culture ◽  
Bronze Age ◽  
Iron Age ◽  
Archaeological Sites ◽  
Entire Region ◽  
Baltic Region ◽  
The South ◽  
Burial Practices ◽  
South West ◽  
The Baltic

This chapter examines Iron Age funerary and domestic archaeological sites, and economic and cultural developments from c.500 BC–AD 550/600, in the east Baltic region (present day Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania). While the early pre-Roman Iron Age was to some extent a continuation of the late Bronze Age in material culture terms, many changes took place in the late pre-Roman Iron Age. At the change of era, new cultural trends spread over the east Baltic region, from the south-eastern shore of the Baltic to south-west Finland, which produced a remarkable unification of material culture over this entire region up to the Migration period. Differences in burial practices and ceramics, however, indicate the existence of two distinct ethnic groups, Proto-Finnic in the northern part of the region and Proto-Baltic to the south. Subsistence was based principally on agriculture and stock rearing, with minor variations in the economic orientation of different areas.

scholarly journals Sites of archaeology in Ulvivok and its surroundings in the research of Lviv scientists

2019 ◽  
Vol 23 ◽  
pp. 337-361
Author(s):  
Dmytro Pavliv
Keyword(s):  
Bronze Age ◽  
Iron Age ◽  
Archaeological Site ◽  
Large River ◽  
Archaeological Sites ◽  
Archaeological Heritage ◽  
History Of ◽  
Almost All ◽  
Xix Century ◽  
The Village

The old village of Ulvivok, located above the Bug River in Sokal district, Lviv region, is extremely rich with archaeological sites. Relief, favourable for living, fertile soils, large river have contributed to appearing of human settlements on this area since ancient times. This fact is witnessed by finds of numerous archaeological artifacts near Ulvivok and discovery of significant archaeological sites – cemeteries and settlements, which have an interesting history of research since the late XIX century and till nowadays, associated with many famous Lviv scientists. An important role in the preservation and study of local archaeological finds was played by Dzieduszycki Museum. The first references to finds from Ulvivok and the surrounding villages – Horodylovychi, Stargorod, Skomorokhy and Telyazh – are found at the works of local historian B. Sokalski and geologist A. Lomnitcki, published in 1899. J. Nykorovych – the owner of the village and amateur archaeologist contributed noticeably preservation and research of sites during XIX – beginning of XX century. The first extensive exploration in Ulvivok in 1923 was conducted by archaeologist and local historian, guardian of the prehistoric monuments of Lviv district B. Janusz, who discovered a tomb of Globular Amphorae culture and part of the burials of the most famous archaeological sites near Ulvivok – inhumation cemetery from the end of Bronze Age of “Ulvivok-Rovantsi type”. The same cemetery was investigated in 1931 by archaeologist T. Sulimirski, who published the results of excavations. Local archaeological finds were studied by famous Ukrainian archaeologist J. Pasternak, J. Bryk, K. Żurowski, J. Dąmbrowski, I. Sveshnikov, L. Krushelnytska. Nowadays, the exploration work was conducted by N. Wojceschuk, surveys in Ulvivok, Horodylovychi, Stargorod and excavation of Early Iron Age site were carried out by D. Pavliv. At least 14 archaeological sites (8 settlements and 6 cemeteries) and about 100 individual finds have been found on the territory of the village and surrounding area. This territory on the western part of Ukraine is extremely rich with archaeological sites of almost all epochs. It is witnessed by the great historical importance of this region and requires continuation of professional archaeological examinations and protective actions for the preservation of archaeological heritage. Key words: Ulvivok, archaeological site, Lviv scientists, Globular Amphorae culture, burial complex of Ulvivok-Rovantsi type.

ARCHAEOLOGICAL EXAMINATION OF THE LEFT BANK OF THE URTEMKA RIVER MOUTH (THE KOZHEVNIKOVSKY DISTRICT OF THE TOMSK REGION)

2021 ◽  
Vol 27 ◽  
pp. 151-158
Author(s):  
BORODOVSKIY A. ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Bronze Age ◽  
Middle Ages ◽  
River Mouth ◽  
Archaeological Site ◽  
General Tendency ◽  
Left Bank ◽  
Archaeological Survey ◽  
Late Middle Ages ◽  
Archaeological Materials ◽  
Ceramic Vessels

The article is devoted to a review of the archaeological survey results of the left bank of the Urtamka River mouth (the Kozhevnikovsky District of the Tomsk Oblast). The purpose of the research was to localize the station of the Urtam ostrog, marked on the map of 1701 by S.U. Remezov, located on the left bank of the Urtamka River. The survey of this territory made it possible to detect an elevated area (Urtamskoe-II), fenced on three sides by a sub-square ditch 2 m wide and 0.4 m deep. The total dimension of the fence was 200 m, which formally correlates with the perimeter of the Urtam ostrog, indicated in a written source of the late 17th century (1687). However, the archaeological study of the ditch section and the inner fenced area of the newly identified fortified settlement Urtamskoe-II did not reveal the cross-section of the ditch and the foundations of the log wall that are characteristic for the Early New Time. Such results complicate their connection with the Urtam ostrog. In addition, the osteological materials and fragments of the rims of ceramic vessels from the Irmen culture (Late Bronze Age) were found in the cultural layer of the discovered settlement. It should be noted that for the territories occupied by several archaeologically investigated ostrogs (Tomsky, Umrevinsky, Sayansky, etc.), the facts of the discovery of the earlier archaeological materials are quite typical. However, the ditch fence of the sub-square outlines of the residential area of the fortified settlement Urtamskoe-II significantly distinguishes it from the nearest Irmen settlement of the Baturino-1. Fencing with a “П” shaped moat are more typical for the settlements of the late Middle Ages on the territory of neighboring Baraba (Tyumenka, Chinyaikha). In general, the archaeological research carried out reflected the general tendency which is the complexity of localizing the ostrog as an archaeological site. Keywords: archaeological exploration, Upper Ob Region, ancient settlements, settlements, ostrog

scholarly journals SÍTIOS ARQUEOLÓGICOS DE PEQUENO PORTE DO BAIXO RIO AGUAPEÍ

2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
pp. 85-101
Author(s):  
Diana Mirela da Silva Toso ◽  
Neide Barrocá Faccio
Keyword(s):  
Surface Treatment ◽  
Smooth Surface ◽  
Cultural Geography ◽  
Archaeological Site ◽  
Archaeological Sites ◽  
Left Bank ◽  
Average Thickness ◽  
Archaeological Ceramics ◽  
Regional System ◽  
A Site

The present study focused on the analysis of the context of small archaeological sites, located in the area of the Lower Aguapeí River, left bank, focusing on the case, the Archaeological Site Aldeia I, located in the municipality of Junqueirópolis, SP. The study was carried out by the bias of the landscape concept, stimulated by the theoretical contributions of Cultural Geography. The Archaeological Site Aldeia I consists of 38 fragments of ceramic canisters, characteristic of the archaeological tradition Tupi Guarani, whose archaeological ceramics identified are fragments of canisters, with predominance of smooth surface treatment, average thickness of up to 2 cm, and mineral antiplastic with ground caco, constituting a site associated with the Regional System of Guarani Occupation. The Archaeological Site Aldeia I, as to its implementation and material characteristics, presents similarities in relation to the archaeological sites evidenced in the region.

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