Mullino II Settlement on the Ik-Belaya Interfluve: material culture, stratigraphy and radiocarbon chronology

Abstract

Mullino II settlement has become widely popular in archaeological literature due to the work carried out at the site by A.P. Shokurov and G.N. Matyushin in the second half of the 20th century. The material culture of the settlement studied by the authors, and a critical analysis of all available sources, have allowed to make certain conclusions. The site was originally inhabited in the Mesolithic over the chronological interval from the turn of the 9th to the mid-7th Millennium BC. In the early second half of the 6th Millennium BC, carriers of the forest Kamskaya Neolithic culture settled at the site. The results of studying the settlement indicate that it was a long-term settlement of hunters and fishermen. The next stage of colonization of the site (late 5th – early 4th Millennium BC) is associated with the forest-steppe Samarskaya culture. In later periods, but a few cultural remains of various Eneolithic – Late Bronze Age cultures were recorded in the territory of the site.

Keywords

• archaeology
• neolithic
• eneolithic
• late bronze age
• settlement
• stratigraphy
• pedoturbation
• kamskaya culture
• samarskaya culture
• comb ceramics
• collar ceramics
• stone industry
• bone items
• radiocarbon analysis