Open AccessComplex of Settlement Gorodishche-3 Belonging to Fominsky Stage of Kulaiskaya Culture
Author(s) -
А А Казаков
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
vestnik kemerovskogo gosudarstvennogo universiteta
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2078-8983
pISSN - 2078-8975
DOI - 10.21603/2078-8975-2020-22-3-618-625
Subject(s) - excavation , pottery , archaeology , steppe , geography , stage (stratigraphy) , plan (archaeology) , settlement (finance) , earthworks , period (music) , human settlement , history , geology , paleontology , cartography , art , world wide web , computer science , payment , aesthetics
The article introduces materials of the Fominsky stage of the Kulaiskaya culture from the site in the Itkul microdistrict located in the forest-steppe Altai. It gives a detailed description of the site and its excavation. The site covered an area of 320 m². The excavation revealed a semi-dugout with a pit area of 25 m² and a corridor-type exit, a household building, and other structures. The author focuses on the moat and earthwork line and made a cultural and chronological interpretation of the complex based on ceramic and shell plate. The monument dates back to the late III – first half of the IV century and belongs to the Fominsky stage of the Kulaiskaya culture. The article contains previously unpublished photos of all the artifacts, except plain pottery. The introduction of the presented complex into scientific circulation improves the source base of ancient history studies of the forest-steppe Altai in the first half of the 1st millennium. The complex contains artifacts unpolluted with any culturally similar and chronologically close artifacts, which means that it can help identify the Fominsky stage and their cultural-markers. The matter is important not only for the archaeology of the forest-steppe Altai, but also for the neighboring territories with culturally and chronologically similar complexes in Novosibirsk and Kemerovo Regions.