David W. Anthony and Dorcas R. Brown

RESEARCH

SAMARA VALLEY PROJECT

 

Activity Area 'Y'

aerial photo of ks

About 200m south of the structure at Krasnosamarskoe was excavation Y, at the edge of a stream flowing into the lake/marsh. It produced a very low-density cluster of Srubnaya pottery and animal bone perhaps 30m across. People using the stream discarded cattle mandibles and some other cattle bones and broke a few pots here. Studies of the cattle teeth show that they were butchered in the late Fall. This peripheral deposit had intercept radiocarbon dates of 1740-1730 calBC, so was contemporary with the Srubnaya occupation in the central settlement.Y excavations

Chronology