Research Results of the Tatarskiy Azibey III Site in 2020

Abstract

The article presents the results of works on the Tatarskiy Azibey III site in 2020. The area of the prospect excavation, made in the place of concentration of surface finds (ceramic fragments and bronze items) was 48 m2. The general layer which included artifacts on the Tatatrskiy Azibey III site is the layer of dark grey lumpy humous loam (arable land). This layer, formed in modern era, has almost completely destroyed the cultural layer of the site outside the structures filling deposits. It contains artifacts from the Neolithic to modern era in a fragmentary state. Two remnants of the Late Bronze Age semi-subterranean dwellings were partially revealed in the excavation. Judging by construction features and ceramics from the bottom part of the filling of semi-subterranean dwellings, construction №1 refers to the Atabayevo stage of Maklasheevka culture (XIV–XIII centuries BC), construction № 2 – to Lugovoy culture (XVII–XV centuries BC). Neolithic and Eneolithic ware and flint items of that time (V–IV millennium BC) are found in fragments all over the excavation area and indicate that the Stone Age layer was actively used from the Late Bronze Age to modern era. Judging by archaeozoological definitions of species composition of the livestock on the Tatarskiy Azibey III site was similar to herd composition of other settlements of the Late Bronze Age Kama region.

Keywords

• archaeology
• lower kama river
• kulegash wetland
• azibey dune
• neolithic
• eneolithic
• late bronze age
• semi-subterranean dwelling
• lugovoy culture
• atabayevo stage of maklasheevka culture