Anatoly V. Somov1,*, Konstantin M. Andreev1,**, Olga V. Andreeva1,***, Anna S. Aleshinskaya2,****, Marianna A. Kul’kova3,*****, Ekaterina V. Parkhomchuk4, 5,******, Natalia V. Roslyakova1,******* and Irina M. Sosnovtseva1,********
1Samara State Social and Pedagogical University, Russia
2 Institute of Archaeology RAS, Moscow, Russia
3Herzen State Pedagogical University of Russia, St. Petersburg, Russia
4Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography SB RAS, Novosibirsk, Russia
5Novosibirsk State University, Russia
*E-mail: somov.anatoly@gmail.com
**E-mail: konstantin_andreev_88@mail.ru
***E-mail: olgayer@mail.ru
****E-mail: asalesh@mail.ru
*****E-mail: kulkova@mail.ru
******E-mail: evparkhom@yandex.ru
*******E-mail: roslyakova_n@mail.ru
********E-mail: irinasosnovtceva@gmail.com
Keywords: forest-steppe Volga region, Neolithic, Mesolithic, Middle Volga culture, palynological analysis, archaeozoological determinations, geochemical analysis, radiocarbon dating.
The article introduces the results of a comprehensive study on the Stone Age site of Luzhki II (Samara Region, Krasnoyarsk District). A representative collection of artifacts was obtained numbering more than 5,500 units. Out of this number, 1,060 flint products and 3,345 ceramic fragments from 274 vessels, as well as most of the osteological materials, are associated with the Stone Age. This ceramic complex is homogeneous and is associated with the developed Neolithic of the region (the Middle Volga culture), while among the lithic artifacts, a small group stands out, finding the closest analogies in the Middle Stone Age of the forest-steppe Volga region. Radiocarbon dating makes it possible to relate the time of visiting the site in the Mesolithic to the first half of the 7th millennium BC, and in the Neolithic – to the last quarter of the 6th millennium BC. The second period of the site functioning is characterized by fairly dry and warm conditions when steppe landscapes with cereal-wormwood groups were common.
DOI: 10.31857/S0869606325020026, EDN: IPTATR
