Марьева Гора (Северо-Восточное Приазовье) – уникальный памятник археологии / Mar’eva Gora in the northeastern Sea of Azov region – a Unique Archaeological Site

Abstract

Mar`eva Gora is an archaeological site consisting of a multilayer flint workshop and Kul’bakovo I kurgan group consisted of two mounds. It is located on the high bank of the Yasinovka river (a tributary of the Mius River, the northeastern Sea of Azov region). This archaeological complex was discovered by P.I. Boriskovsky in 1952. During the rescue work on one of the kurgans in 1994, N.I. Romashchenko recorded a specific taphonomic situation. The mound was built completely of cultured sediments, with a very large number of the Stone Ages pecimens and natural debris. The remains of the specimens produced in the Neolithic, Late Paleolithic, and Middle Paleolithic periods are largely moved by postdeposition processes. Among the flint finds the dominated are the objects of the Middle Paleolithic. In this article, the authors analyze the taphonomic situation associated with the construction of the kurgan mound, and briefly characterize the flint collections of the Middle Paleolithic kept in the Taganrog Regional Museum and the Rostov Regional Museum.

Keywords

• kurgan
• paleolithic
• flint workshop
• archaeological taphonomy