Archive » The Volga River Region Archaeology Vol.3 (37) 2021
Reconstruction of the Settlement Levoberezhnoe Plan of the Bronze Age (South Ural, Russia)
Noskevich V.V., Fedorova N.V. (Yekaterinburg, Russian Federation), Petrov F.N., Batanina N.S. (Chelyabinsk, Russian Federation)
page 142–154UDC 903.43: 550.3
DOI: https://doi.org/10.24852/pa2021.3.37.142.154
In the Southern Urals in 2015–2019 research was conducted on the fortified settlement of the Bronze Age Levoberezhnoe (Sintashta II). An asphalt road was drawn through the settlement, during the construction of which about a third of the monument’s area was destroyed. Excavations of the monument have been carried out since 2015. It has been established that the settlement is multi-layered; it functioned in the Late Bronze Age from the turn of the 3
rd–2
nd millennium BC until the last quarter of the second millennium BC. Detailed magnetic and topographic surveys were performed on the territory that remaining survived the construction of the road. The location of the external moat was reliably determined by linear positive magnetic anomalies. The base of the outer wall of the settlement had a thickness of about 4 m, the width of the outer moat was 2–2.5 m. It was also possible to accurately localize a number of walls of buildings. The settlement had a rectangular shape, inside there were 26 dwellings. As a result of a comprehensive analysis of the data and aerial photographs of the last century, the layout of the entire settlement was reconstructed.
Keywords
archaeologyBronze AgeSintashta culturearchaeological geophysicsmagnetic surveyfortified settlementSouthern Urals
About the author(s)
Noskevich Vladislav V. Candidate of Physical and Mathematical Sciences. Bulashevich Institute of Geophysics, Ural Branch of RAS. Amundsen str., 100, Ekaterinburg, 620016, Russian Federation; ubistu@gmail.com
Fedorova Natalia V. Candidate of Physical and Mathematical Sciences. Bulashevich Institute of Geophysics, Ural Branch of RAS. Amundsen str., 100, Ekaterinburg, 620016, Russian Federation; nataliavf50@mail.ru
Petrov Fedor N. Candidate of Philosophical Sciences. Chelyabinsk State Historical and Cultural Reserve "Arkaim". Krasnoarmeyskaya str., 100, Chelyabinsk, 454091, Russian Federation; steppe_exp@mail.ru