Victor N. Karmanov*, Aleksandr S. Makarov**, Natalya E. Zaretskaya***
*Institute of Language, Literature and History of the Komi, Urals Branch RAS, Syktyvkar, Russia (vkarman@bk.ru)
**P. Sorokin Syktyvkar State University, Russia (makarov_as@bk.ru)
***Geological Institute RAS, Moscow, Russia (n_zaretskaya@inbox.ru)

Keywords: Eneolithic, Chuzh’’yayol culture, settlement, house-building, chronology, Vychegra River.

A study of dwelling 5 at the Vadnyur 1 site on the Middle Vyschegda River in the city of Syktyvkar in the Komi Republic yielded new data on the chronology of the Chuzh’’yayol Eneolithic archaeological culture. Radiocarbon analysis of four charcoal samples from a reliable context, i.e. the remnants of air pits, produced a series of coinciding valid dates. It enabled us to date the materials revealed and the local sites of the Chuzh’’yayol culture to the second half of the 4th–early 3rd millennium BC with allowance made for calibrated dates.