Faunist Complex of Tytkescen-Vi Settlement (to the Issue of the Beginning of Cattle Breeding in the Altai Mountains)

The article is devoted to the publication of osteological collections of the multi-layered settlement Tytkeskene-VI in the Altai Mountains. The settlement is confined to the estuary part of the left bank of Tytkesken - the left-bank tributary of the Katun in its average flow. In the Tytkeskene-VI settlement, stratigraphic observations give a relative chronology, and radiocarbon dates allow obtaining and comparing the absolute and calendar dating of individual complexes and constructing a periodization of Neolithic cultures - the Eneolithic of the Central Katun region. The orderliness of the placement, the horizons saturated with artifacts and bones of animals, allow characterizing the changes in the economy of the Tytkeskene-VI settlement from the era of the developed Neolithic to the paleometal age. The materials of the Tytkeskene-VI settlement give grounds to outline the time of the appearance of cattle breeding in the territory of the Altai Mountains. The authors indicate the emergence of the manufacturing economy in the territory of the Altai Mountains in the era of the late - the final Neolithic. The first domestic species here is the horse. Previously studied materials from the neighboring settlement of Tytkesken-2 generally confirm the data

Archaeology · Bronze Age · Cartography · Chalcolithic · Chronology · Estuary · Geography · Human settlement · Osteology · Periodization · Prehistory · Radiocarbon dating · Tributary · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies · Indigenous Studies and Ecology · Geology · Oceanography