Open AccessSETTLEMENT BARSOVA GORA II/42 (NEOLITHIC, ENEOLITHIC AND BRONZE AGE COMPLEXES)
Author(s) -
Ekaterina Dubovtseva
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
izvestiâ samarskogo naučnogo centra rossijskoj akademii nauk. istoričeskie nauki
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2658-4816
DOI - 10.37313/2658-4816-2021-3-2-122-136
Subject(s) - chalcolithic , archaeology , settlement (finance) , bronze age , excavation , geography , bronze , feature (linguistics) , ancient history , geology , history , linguistics , philosophy , world wide web , computer science , payment
The settlement Barsova Gora II/42 is located in Khanty-Mansiysk Autonomous Okrug-Yugra, 15 km west of Surgut, on the high bank of the Ob' River. The settlement is being actively destroyed due to the activities of oil companies. More than 20 objects and structures were investigated in 2011 during rescue excavations, some of them are pits of ancient dwellings (sites 1, 2, 6, 15, 19), some are household outbuildings and pits (sites 3, 4, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 13, 14, 16, 17, 18, 20), two objects have a cult purpose (sites 5, 12). An important feature of the monument is that archaeological structures of different epochs and cultures overlap each other, allowing us to trace the sequence of settlement of this part of the Ob River bank. During the Neolithic Age the constructions of Bystrinsky and Barsovogorsky cultural types were located here, the cultural layers containing ceramics of Vakhovsky type belong to the Eneolithic Age, and the constructions and household pits of Kulugansky type belong to the Bronze Age. An ochre storage pit and a ring ochre structure represent a unique object, which is probably related to ancient rituals. The revealed objects (Nos. 15, 19, 18, 2, 1, 5, 17, 13) are partially investigated and require further excavations.