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Results of research on the Stone Age site Luzhki II in the forest-steppe Volga region
- Authors: Somov A.V.1, Andreev K.M.1, Andreeva O.V.1, Aleshinskaya A.S.2, Kul'kova M.A.3, Parkhomchuk E.V.4,5, Roslyakova N.V.1, Sosnovtseva I.M.1
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Affiliations:
- Samara State Social and Pedagogical University
- Institute of Archeology RAS
- Herzen State Pedagogical University of Russia
- Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography SB RAS
- Novosibirsk State University
- Issue: No 2 (2025)
- Pages: 22-40
- Section: ARTICLES
- URL: https://journals.rcsi.science/0869-6063/article/view/306357
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.31857/S0869606325020026
- EDN: https://elibrary.ru/iptatr
- ID: 306357
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Abstract
The article introduces the results of a comprehensive study on the Stone Age site of Luzhki II (Samara Region, Krasnoyarsk District). A representative collection of artifacts was obtained numbering more than 5,500 units. Out of this number, 1,060 flint products and 3,345 ceramic fragments from 274 vessels, as well as most of the osteological materials, are associated with the Stone Age. This ceramic complex is homogeneous and is associated with the developed Neolithic of the region (the Middle Volga culture), while among the lithic artifacts, a small group stands out, finding the closest analogies in the Middle Stone Age of the forest-steppe Volga region. Radiocarbon dating makes it possible to relate the time of visiting the site in the Mesolithic to the first half of the 7th millennium BC, and in the Neolithic – to the last quarter of the 6th millennium BC. The second period of the site functioning is characterized by fairly dry and warm conditions when steppe landscapes with cereal-wormwood groups were common.
About the authors
A. V. Somov
Samara State Social and Pedagogical University
Author for correspondence.
Email: somov.anatoly@gmail.com
K. M. Andreev
Samara State Social and Pedagogical University
Email: konstantin_andreev_88@mail.ru
O. V. Andreeva
Samara State Social and Pedagogical University
Email: olgayer@mail.ru
A. S. Aleshinskaya
Institute of Archeology RAS
Email: asalesh@mail.ru
M. A. Kul'kova
Herzen State Pedagogical University of Russia
Email: kulkova@mail.ru
E. V. Parkhomchuk
Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography SB RAS; Novosibirsk State University
Email: evparkhom@yandex.ru
N. V. Roslyakova
Samara State Social and Pedagogical University
Email: roslyakova_n@mail.ru
I. M. Sosnovtseva
Samara State Social and Pedagogical University
Email: irinasosnovtceva@gmail.com
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