Moscow University
Anthropology
Bulletin
Anthropology
Bulletin
Institute for the History of Material Culture, RAS, Saint Petersburg
Larionova A.V.: e-mail: alisalarionovag@gmail.com.
This paper is devoted to the main (third) cultural layer of the middle palaeolithic site Ketrosy (assemblage 1). This site has been discovered by N.K. Anisiutkin at 1972. At the Ketrosy site a total area of about 127 m2 has been investigated. Stratigraphical, microstratigraphical position and application method allow us to analyze considered cultural layer as homogeneous one and try to reconstruct spatial distribution of finds through the site. Finally, we have two patterns of reconstruction of the structure of the site. First pattern has been published by N.K. Anisiutkin. According to this pattern, there are four different clusters of flint artifacts and habitation zone in the center of the site which has north wall and fragment of the west one. The second model is based on analyzed material from the assemblage 1 and data from microstratigraphical position of cultural layer. According to this model, there are 2 large clusters of flint artifacts. Cluster №1 is flint-knapping zone, which situated not far from the origins of the flint. Cluster №2 is a production center, which situated close to habitation zone which was defined due to analysis of microstratigraphical profiles. According to the data complex, including stratigraphical, microstratigraphical position, application method, spatial distribution of flint finds and traceological data the investigation confirmed that we deal with short-lived settlement.
middle palaeolithic, Ketrosy, spatial analysis
Цит.: Larionova A.V. As for the Question of Homogenicity of the Main (Third) Cultural Layer of the Middle Palaeolithic Site Ketrosy (Assemblage 1) // Moscow University Anthropology Bulletin (Vestnik Moskovskogo Universiteta. Seria XXIII. Antropologia), 2016; 1/2016; с. 123-132
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