The Settlement of Igimskiy Bor I is a New Site of the Seima-Turbino Chronological Horizoni (preliminary research results)

Abstract

The materials obtained from a newly found archaeological site – Igimskiy Bor I settlement are published in the paper. The settlement is located on the edge of the butte of a high terrace on the right bank of the Ik river oxbow, in a protected area of regional significance "Igimskiy Bor". During reconnaissance, at the first time, a copper knife was found with the distinctive features of the Seima-Turbino chronological horizon. A trial trench was made on this area, in its buried soil small pieces of ceramics, ceramic and metallurgical slags, drops of copper and animal bones were found. The spectral analysis of the knife and two metal drops revealed both their similarity – metallurgically pure copper, and differences in micro inclusions (the presence of silver and iron tempers in the composition of the knife metal in one-tenth of a percent). Judging by the analogies of the copper knife and pieces of ceramics, the time of the settlement's existence falls on the end of the Eneolithic – the beginning of the Late Bronze Age (the end of the III – beginning of the II thousand BC). Probably, the settlement of Igimskiy Bor I can be attributed to the number of poorly studied industrial workshops in this area.

Keywords

• archaeology
• kama river
• ik river
• kulegash lake-marsh massif
• seima-turbino transcultural phenomenon
• items made of metal
• metalworking
• emission spectral analysis