From a Concentration of Finds to Stone Age Architecture

The Lommi III Pit-House in Northwestern Russia

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ID12639149
AuthorsIrina Khrustaleva (0000-0002-2187-8117, Hermitage Museum, corresponding author), Aivar Kriiska (0000-0002-0900-7626, University of Tartu)
Year2021
Volume48
Pages82-101
Publication date2021-09-10
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueDocumenta Praehistorica (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1408-967X • E-ISSN: 1854-2492
PublisherUniversity of Ljubljana (PUBLISHER • SI)
DOI10.4312/dp.48.17
OpenAlexW3200022176
LanguageEN
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High-quality documentation that was made during fieldwork at archaeological sites can provide new information for old excavations, even decades later. The revision of the archival data of the Stone Age settlement site Lommi III, located in the border zone of Russia and Estonia and excavated by Richard Indreko in 1940, allowed us to identify the remains of a Comb Ware culture (4th millennium cal BC) pit-house based on the concentration of artefacts marked in the field drawings. The rectangular shape and size of the concentration (c. 7.1x4.4m, depth 0.7–0.75m) corresponds to the architectural form common in the European forest zone and has numerous analogies at the settlement sites of that time in Finland, Karelia (Russia) and Estonia. The composition and diversity of the finds and their distribution indicate the (semi-)sedentary way of life of inhabitants of the pit-house. The radiocarbon age obtained from the organic crust on pottery fragments collected in the pit-house corresponds to the first half of 4th millennium cal BC

Archaeology · Documentation · Excavation · Geography · Pottery · Radiocarbon dating · Settlement (finance · Ancient and Medieval Archaeology Studies · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies · Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology

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