NEOLITHIC SITES WITH THE UST’-BELAYA POTTERY FROM THE KRASNOYARSK ARCHAEOLOGICAL AREA: NEW MATERIALS AND RESULTS OF RADIOCARBON DATING
Abstract
The article presents the results of the analysis of materials and radiocarbon chronology of archaeological complexes with Ust’-Belaya pottery type studied in recent years in the vicinity of the city of Krasnoyarsk in the Middle Yenisei (the Krasnoyarsk archaeological area). The materials of the Nyasha, Voznesenskaya-1 sites and a new sector of the Neolithic cultural layer on the territory of the Krasnoyarskij Ostrog ensemble are considered. New and historiographic data on the Nyasha site demonstrate the variable structure of the culture-bearing sediments. Complexes with the Ust’-Belaya are included in various positions of the soil profile of the Atlantic period. At the Krasnoyarskij Ostrog ensemble, a part of the feature, preliminarily interpreted as the remains of a subterranean dwelling, was studied. The pottery collection is represented by four fully or partially reconstructed vessels. Among others, one can note rare finds of a composite fishing hook point and a smoother made of bone. The totality of available data indicates the existence of a complex of sites of the Ust’-Belaya pottery tradition in the historical part of Krasnoyarsk — the estuary area between Yenisei and Kacha rivers. The radiocarbon dates obtained for all the sites, together with an analysis of the previously made ones, made it possible to define the age of the Ust’-Belaya complexes in the Middle Yenisei in the interval of the second third of the 5th — first third of the 4th millennium BC and to synchronize them with some of the most reliably dated complexes of the Angara region.
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