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   

New Early Iron Age Culture in the Southern Taiga Zone of Central Siberia

P.V. Mandryka.

Large-scale excavations in the southern taiga zone of Middle Siberia have revealed a number of Early Iron Age sites containing ceramics decorated with rolls. These discoveries have led to the separation of a culture termed Shilka (the name stems from the eponymous site where such pottery was fi rst discovered in a closed assemblage) dating from the late 6th – early 1st cent. BC. The general characteristics of the Shilka culture are presented, including a description of fortifi ed and unfortifi ed settlements, dwellings, and other sites, and a typology of artifacts, with special reference to ceramics. Based on the mapping of sites with such pottery, the distribution area of the Shilka culture is delineated, and its origins and evolution reconstructed.