Aleksandr Vasil'evich Volokitin

Komi Science Center, Syktyvkar · Institute of Language, Literature and History

The Mesolithic sites Parch 1 and 2 are situated on the high floodplain level of River Vychegda. The floodplain has levee-hollow morphology, which is indicative of the former process of river lateral migrations, which was radiocarbon dated to 11.1 ka BP (14C). Analysis of valley geomorphology provided the conclusion that the river channel was highly...

DETAILS OF INVESTIGATION OF THE ARCHAEOLOGICAL SITE VYLYS TOM 2 ON RIVER IZHMA

The Vylys Tom 3 Mesolithic site is part of the Izhma-Tom geoarchaeological microregion, where there are now 6 Mesolithic sites explored by excavations. The site is located on the right bank of the middle course of the Izhma river in the vicinity of the village Tom, Izhma region of the Komi Republic, on the remnant of a pine forested fluvial terrace...

Abstract Grigory M. Burov (22.09.1933 – 24.02.2013), a graduate of the Kiev University, arrived in Syktyvkar in 1957. He worked in the Komi Branch of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR until 1968. Subsequently, he worked in Ulyanovsk and Simferopol. However, the period of his work in the Komi Region turned out to be the most productive .G.M. Burov...

Over the past 50 years a number of Mesolithic sites have been discovered in the Northern Cis-Urals near Vychegda, Vym’ and Pechora rivers. However, very few of them were excavated and systematically studied by the archaeologists. This article presents the description of the archaeological site Martushevskaya 8. To our knowledge, this is the first r...

Using the example of several archaeological microregions located in various natural and climatic zones of the Pechora River basin, the patterns of settling of ancient collectives in various land-scapes of the Pechora and Izhma river valleys for several thousand years are considered. The analysis of archaeological sources, data of paleogeographic re...

The first multilayered clearly stratified site Vylys Tom 2 was studied in the valley of the Izhma River, the largest left tributary of the Pechora River (north of the East European Plain). Cultural remains are located in the sediments of the terrace’s promontory, which is 10 m high. The site is discovered in 2003; excavations were done in 2010–2011...

The first multilayered clearly stratified site Vylys Tom 2 was studied in the valley of the Izhma River, the largest left tributary of the Pechora River (north of the East European Plain). Cultural remains are located in the sediments of the terrace’s promontory, which is 10 m high. The site is discovered in 2003; excavations were done in 2010–2011...

The Mesolithic archaeological site Ochyu katishche is located on the right bank of the Izhma river in the environs of the village Tom of the Izhma region of the Komi Republic. It is located on the pine forested terrace with a height of 12,5 m. The site was discovered in 2017 and then surveyed in 2018–2019. At the archaeological site the concentrati...

The Mesolithic archaeological sites Cherdyb 1 and Cherdyb 2 are located on the left bank upper course of the Vychegda river in the vicinity of the Yugydyag village at the Ust-Kulom district of the Komi Republic. The sites are located on the edge of the pine forest terrace which is 12 m high. They were discovered in 2003, researched in 2004–2005 and...

The Mesolithic campsites Parch 1 and 2 are situated on the high floodplain level of River Vychegda. Cultural remains at both sites are buried in the overbank alluvia. The sites were excavated in 1984-2003. The authors re-examined stratigraphic sections of Parch 1, Parch 2 sites and analogues to the Parch 3 location in 2013 during the field research...

In 2019, the Ukhta site, discovered in 1939, was surveyed on the territory of the Children's Park in Ukhta. The Ukhta site is located on a high terrace on the left bank of the Ukhta river which is the left tributary of the Izhma river. A preserved part of the site dating back to the Mesolithic was iden-tified. The site is dominated by slate product...

Now several Mesolithic archaeological sites are being studied in a small area of the Izhma river’s valley in the vicinity of the village of Tom in the European North-East. Stone industries of these archeological sites are similar. Multilayered archeological site Vylys Tom 2 is located on the alluvial terrace which is 10 m high. Excavations were car...

Multilayered archeological site Vylys Tom 2 is located on the right bank of the middle course of Izhma river, large left tributary of the Pechora river. The geomorphological position of the site is a 10 m Early Holocene river terrace. Mesolithic cultural layers 3 and 4 lie at a depth of more than 2 m. The archeological materials from these cultural...

The Early Holocene human occupation of the northern part of Eastern Europe is connected with the spread of Mesolithic and Neolithic societies. Global changes in landscapes and fauna in the Final Pleistocene and the advent of Holocene led to important progress in human behavior and dispersals toward the North, in the northern boreal forest and fores...

The archaeological site Vylys Tom 2 is situated on the right bank of the Izhma River, at the mouth area of its tributary – the Vylys Tom River. Artefacts are located in the sediments of the terrace’s promontory, which is 10 m high. Excavations were carried out in 2010–2013. Four cultural layers are distinguished. The Early Iron Age is found in the...

A case study of the Neolithic comb ceramic site Pezmog 4 of the Kama culture presents a situation when results of radiocarbon dating change long-existing concepts concerning the development of archaeological events. Until the early 2000s, the chronology of the Kama culture, distributed mainly in the Kama and Vychegda River basins, has been based on...

Geological and geomorphological settings are often taken into account when choosing strategy in archaeological studies. In the Vychegda River valley (Archangelsk Province, Komi Republic), at the end of the Late Pleistocene and in the Holocene, lateral channel migrations were the dominant process of riverine landscape changes and hence directly infl...

MULTILAYER ARCHAEOLOGICAL SITE IN THE VALLEY OF THE IZHMA RIVER

The main objective of the present work – detailed analysis of the collections of Parch 1 and Parch 2 sites on Vychegda River and characteristics of the stone industry, which is the initial stage of Parch archaeological culture. The similarities and connections among cultures in the Russian Plain Mesolithic have been revealed. This culture, like Mes...

Parch 1 Mesolithic sites are situated in proximity of Parch village on the left bank of Vychegda river and inside the 5 meter river flood plain. Recently geological, geomorphologic as well as petroarchaeological analyses were made on the sites by prof. Tkachev and dr. Majorova respectively. Therefore, the Parch 2 hunting camp was probably situate...

The Parch 1 and 2 sites are located in the vicinity of Parch village, on the left bank of the Vychegda River, in its middle part, close to the upper reaches. The research carried out there was, from the very beginning, rather complex although science-based methods were mostwidely applied at the final stage, in 1999 - 2002. During that phase, the mi...

In the Mesolithic epoch, small groups of population penetrated to the Euro-pean North-East. These groups seem to originate from Kama basin (represented by the Kama Mesolithic) as well as from the so-called post-swederian industries of Baltic (Pulli industry) and Volga-Oka interflue. It is obvious, that the population formed by these groups did not...

The European North-East includes the catchment areas of the rivers Vychegda and Pechora. In this region, there are 79 sites related to the Mesolithic. The Vychegda sites have been investigated considerably better. The regional Mesolithic is characterized by two traditions, the Sub-Ural one and the Western one. The Sub-Ural tradition includes camps...

The article is devoted to the characterization of Upper Paleolithic archaeological materials from the Bobylek grotto, discovered by the speleologist S. Matrenin. The grotto was researched in 1989-1991. a team of specialists from the Institute of Plant and Animal Ecology and the Institute of History and Archeology of the Ural Branch of the Russian A...

The accumulation of metal products was found on the eroded surface of the cape in the Oka water area of the reservoir of the Bratsk hydroelectric power station. The ledge is exposed only during low water periods. Before the reservoir was filled, it was a horizontal platform, abruptly dropping down to the bend of the Oka river. The former height mar...

The ungulate fauna present in Mesolithic, Neolithic, and Eneolithic Age sites of the Pechora and Vychegda Basins were considerable. These sites differed in archaeological culture and in the type of settlement they represented. Established sites included summer and winter camps, permanent settlements, and temporary campsites. In spite of many change...