Ozero Beloye I Ancient Village of the Late Bronze Age in the Samara Volga Region

Abstract

The paper features the results of studying a new Bronze Age site discovered in 2019 in the Volzhsky District of Samara Oblast. The site is located between two oxbow lakes on the left bank of the Volga. The ceramic complex is represented by two cultural and chronological groups. The first group of ceramics is associated with the Srubnaya culture. Of interest are fragments of three pot-shaped vessels with a high curved neck, smoothly transitioning into a rounded body, originating from pit 23. Complexes with similar ceramics located in the Samara Volga region have not been sufficiently studied. Analogies of such ceramics have been traced both in the steppe Ivanovka culture and among the forest and forest-steppe Maklasheevka culture at its early (Atabaevo) stage. A technological analysis of the ceramics identified differences in pottery traditions among the bearers of the Srubnaya culture and the bearers of the cultures of the final stage of the Late Bronze Age. The continuity of pottery traditions from the end of the Bronze Age to the early Iron Age has been traced.

Keywords

• archaeology
• samara volga region
• volga
• late bronze age
• srubnaya culture
• atabaevo stage of maklasheevka culture
• mezhovka culture
• similarity of roller ceramics cultures
• technological and morphological analysis of ceramics