Archaeology, Ethnology & Anthropology of Eurasia 36 (4) 2008

Annotation:  Environmental Changes in the Mongolian Altai during the Holocene New Data on Radiocarbon Chronology of Neolithic Ceramics from the Volga-Kama Region 1929 Year Tree-Ring Chronology for the Altai-Sayan Region (Western Tuva) Early Urilsky Culture Assemblage from Bukinsky Kluch, Bureya River Representations of Warriors on Early Medieval Turkic Bronze Plaques from Eastern Central Asia New Categories of Wooden Artifacts of the Mid 1st Millennium AD from the site of Vis II (Vychegda Ba The Han Chariot from Noin Ula Mound 20 (Mongolia) Defense Constructions of Fort Umrevinsky (Based on 2002–2004 Archaeological Excavations) Petroglyph Sites of Kazakhstan and Western Central Asia as Part of the Archaeological Landscape: Ne Zoomorphic Images in Eastern Slavic Embroidery of Southwestern Siberia New Ethnic Holidays in the Sayan-Altai The Origin of the Early Nomadic Populations of Tuva: Craniometrical Evidence The “Mediterraneans” of Southern Siberia and Kazakhstan, Indo-European Migrations, and the Origin of Human Humerus from Khoroshevsky Island: History and Context   

Defense Constructions of Fort Umrevinsky (Based on 2002–2004 Archaeological Excavations)

A.P. Borodovsky and S.V. Gorokhov.

Fort Umrevinsky is an example of the type of military architecture that refl ects the early Russian colonization of the Upper Ob. The fort was built during the initial period of the Russian Empire’s annexation of southwestern Siberia. The results of archaeological excavations indicate that the defense constructions of the fort include the outer and the inner walls, a moat, an angle tower, a palisade, and a platform. Two construction periods have been determined, dating to the early 1700s and to 1730–1734. The latter period is marked by the construction of the angle tower, accompanied by rituals indicated by the presence of a foundation burial and a coin. By the late 18th cent., the defense structures had fallen into ruin and the fort was subsequently used as a cemetery.