Archaeology, Ethnology & Anthropology of Eurasia 35 (3) 2008

Annotation:  Sergeyevka-1: Neolithic Site in the Khanka Plain, and the Typology of Middle Neolithic Sites in Pri Cultural Change during the Late Prehistoric Period in Southern Primorye (Based on Archaeological Ev Formation of the Eurasian “Steppe Belt” of Stockbreeding Cultures: Viewed through the Prism of Arch Stages in the Settlement History of Chicha-1: The Results of Ceramic Analysis New Early Iron Age Culture in the Southern Taiga Zone of Central Siberia Prospects for Correlating Radiocarbon and Archaeological Chronologies of the Scythian and Hunno- Sa The Role of Migration in the Evolution of the Andronov Community The Bear Image in Western Siberian Art of the 2nd Millennium BC and its Relevance for Delimiting the Ethnic and Cultural Functions of Name in Traditional Japanese Society G.I. Choros-Gurkin’s Archaeological and Ethnographic Drawings at the National Museum of the Altai R Eco-museums in Siberia as Centers for Ethnic and Cultural Heritage Preservation in the Natural Envi Cranial Characteristics of the Saka Populations of the Eastern Pamirs   

Stages in the Settlement History of Chicha-1: The Results of Ceramic Analysis

V.I. Molodin, L.N. Mylnikova, and L.S. Kobeleva.

The paper addresses the stratigraphic distribution of ceramic assemblages in the sediments of ditch A – the earliest construction feature at Chicha-1. Materials from two excavation areas (8 and 16) are examined. Several types of pottery associated with various ceramic traditions are identifi ed. Migration routes into the Baraba forest-steppe zone during the Bronze Age to Iron Age transition and stages of human occupation at Chicha-1 are reconstructed.