Archaeology, Ethnology & Anthropology of Eurasia 45 (1) 2017   DOI: 10.17746/1563-0110.2017.45.1.015-024

Annotation:  New Findings on the Middle Paleolithic of the Eastern Adriatic: The Earliest Settlement at Bioče, M Geomorphology and Quaternary Sediments at Archaeological Sites Near Anzhevka, Krasnoyarsk Territory Archaeological Sites as Markers of Hydrosystem Transformation in the Kurai and Chuya Basins, Southea Agricultural Practice on the Korean Peninsula Taking into Account the Origin of Rice Agriculture in Avtodrom 2—a Late Neolithic (Artyn Culture) Site in the Baraba Forest-Steppe, Western Siberia A Generalized Assessment of Cultural Changes at Stratified Sites: The Case of Chalcolithic Fortresse A Dugout from the Don River Exhibited at the State Historical Museum, Moscow: Discovery and Dating A House Model from Popudnya, Cucuteni-Tripolye Culture, Ukraine: A New Interpretation Old Turkic Statues from Apshiyakta, Central Altai: On Female Representations in Turkic Monumental Ar Early Medieval Armor from Southern Siberia Leather Artifacts from Tara, Western Siberia, Excavated in 2012–2014 The Morphology of Permanent Molars from the Paleolithic Layers of Denisova Cave An Anthropological Study of Mummified Remains from the Zeleny Yar Cemetery on the Lower Ob, Western Patterns of Growth and Development in Urban and Rural Children of the Northern Part of European Russ   

Geomorphology and Quaternary Sediments at Archaeological Sites
Near Anzhevka, Krasnoyarsk Territory

I.D. Zolnikov^1–3, A.A. Kartoziya^{2, 3}, A.V. Vybornov^{1, 2}, V.S. Slavinsky¹, A.A. Tsybankov¹, and I.A. Grachev⁴

¹Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography, Siberian Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences, Pr. Akademika Lavrentieva 17, Novosibirsk, 630090, Russia

²Novosibirsk State University, Pirogova 2, Novosibirsk, 630090, Russia

³Institute of Geology and Mineralogy, Siberian Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences, Pr. Akademika Koptyuga 3, Novosibirsk, 630090, Russia

⁴Peter the Great Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography (Kunstkamera), Russian Academy of Sciences, Universitetskaya nab. 3, St. Petersburg, 199034, Russia

Archaeological and geomorphological studies at several sites near the village of Anzhevka contribute to the understanding of the cultural and chronological situation in the region during the Quaternary. They are especially relevant to intermediate regions such as the Kansk-Rybinsk Basin, situated between the Baikal, Angara, and Yenisei drainages. Rescue excavations in 2015 on the right bank of the Kan River, near Kansk, yielded numerous finds relating to the Quaternary, and to the origin of the modern topography of that basin. Excavated sites near Anzhevka include Nefteprovod-1 and -2 and Ryabch ikov Klyuch-1, all sp anning the period from the Upper Paleolithic to recent centuries, and including five geomorphological segmen ts with different types of Quaternary deposits. The main type of landscape at Ryabchikov Klyuch-1 is sharp-crested dissected, and that at Nefteprovod-1 and -2 is defined by structural denudation. The latter occupies the right wall of the Kan River valley, raised and divided into neotectonic blocks differing in elevation. The nature of the sections is determined by geomorphological segmentation: the Quaternary sequence begins from alluvial sediments, and in certain areas between the pre-Quaternary sediments and the subaerial cover, the alluvium is absent. Cultural layers are deposited in the upper unit, as represented by the subaerial cover’s differing in various areas, because of local alluvial erosion and eolian defl ation. Studies show the peculiar nature of the geomorphology and sediments of the area, different from those at Strizhovaya Gora, which is located 3.5 km downstream the Kan River.

Keywords: Krasnoyarsk Territory, Kansk-Rybinsk Basin, Kan River, Late Pleistocene, Holocene, geomorphology, Quaternary.