Journal of Siberian Federal University. Humanities & Social Sciences / The Ust’-Kutarey Site (Northern Angara Region): New Chronology Data and Modern Context

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Journal of Siberian Federal University. Humanities & Social Sciences. 2025 18 (11)
Authors
Chekha, Anna N.
Contact information
Chekha, Anna N. : Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography SB RAS Novosibirsk, Russian Federation; ; ORCID: 0000-0002-6872-9493
Keywords
North Angara region; Neolithic; Metall Age; stone industries; blade stammed points; layers with «compression» character; rescue archaeological excavations
Abstract

At the modern stage of studying Baikal-Yenisei Siberia and the Northern Angara region, an impressive source base on burial complexes and multilayer sites has been accumulated, and an array of natural science data has been obtained, including a series of radiocarbon determinations obtained by the AMS method and data on stable carbon and nitrogen isotopes. Based on the results of bioarchaeological research of the Canadian- Russian Baikal Archaeological Project, a new concept of the development of Middle Holocene (Late Mesolithic to Early Bronze Age) cultures of the Pre-Baikal region based on data on funerary complexes was proposed. Irkutsk researchers proposed their own historical and cultural model taking into account the data on hunter-gatherer sites, not only in the conventional Baikal region, but also in other territories of Baikal-Yenisei Siberia. This paper presents new dates for the Ust’-Kutarey site in the Northern Priangarye, in the context of modern data, raises the issues of the Neolithic development of the region not only from the point of view of pottery and funerary traditions, considers the peculiarities of the Neolithic stone industries development on the example of the Ust’-Kutarey site. Despite the compression nature of the deposits, it was possible to identify Neolothic areas (on probation) by means of spatial analysis, from which samples were taken for dating. These data are consistent with the previously obtained dates for the burial from layer 3 and generally fit into the chronology of the Neolithic complexes with Ust- Belaya and Posolskaya type of ceramic. However, an earlier (Mesolithic) component cannot be ruled out. The obtained data make a significant contribution to the construction of the cultural and chronological scale of the region

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2183–2192
EDN
LIEQBX
Paper at repository of SibFU
https://elib.sfu-kras.ru/handle/2311/157896

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