Pottery from the Rubtsovsk Settlement (the Alley valley, south of Western Siberia)

The article is devoted to the publication of fragments of pottery found in the settlement of Rubtsovsk in the Altai Krai (Russia). The cultural layer of the monument was destroyed which creates problems for the determination of the chronology and cultural affiliation of the collected materials. The main part of the studied ceramic collection can be attributed to the Neolithic. These findings are similar to the Neolithic sites of the Altai Mountains, the south-western districts of the Altai Territory, Pavlodar region and Barnaul-Biysk Ob. On the Rubytsovsk settlement allocation was made of a small group of pottery fragments which can be dated to Eneolithic on the basis of the comparative analysis of the materials of Eneolithic complexes in North Kulunda and the Barnaul-Biysk Ob region. Some fragments are considered similar to the early Bronze Age monuments of the south of Western Siberia. The peculiarities of ceramic ornamentation make it possible to distinguish several groups. The research allowed fixing a mixture of ornamental traditions that are likely to reflect the interaction of different societies. Apparently, the location of the settlement in the Alei floodplain reflects one of the existing “corridors” in the Ob-Irtysh interfluve. It provided the advances of recorded elements of material culture. As the researchers note, at some stage a similar contact area could become a hotbed of cultural genesis

Ancient history · Archaeology · Bronze · Bronze Age · Cartography · Chalcolithic · Chronology · Floodplain · Geography · Pottery · Ancient and Medieval Archaeology Studies · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies · History

• The boborkino style ceramics from the settlements of south-western regions of the Altai territory

  Open Access•Yu F Kiryushin, Kiryushin Yu et al.•Teoriya i praktika arkheologicheski…•2016

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