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The study addresses cultural and chronological attribution of Avtodrom 2 – the largest and best-known Neolithic site in the foreststeppe zone of Western Siberia. Over eight fi eld seasons (1998, 2004, 2007–2012), excavations focused on its northeastern part, where dwellings with Artyn type of pottery and numerous stone implements were found. We describe ceramics, lithics, habitation and utility structures, and propose to attribute them to the Late Neolithic Artyn culture distributed in the forest and forest-steppe parts of the middle Irtysh drainage, in Baraba, and partly on southern Vasyugan. On the basis of radiocarbon and thermo-luminescent analysis of ceramics, the estimated dates fall within the middle and the second half of the 5th millennium BC. The Artyn people maintained ties with those of the Bystrinskaya culture of the Middle Ob and those of the Kokuy culture of the Irtysh and Ishim drainages. Cultural affi nities with people of the forest-steppe Upper Ob and of the northern Kulunda steppe are explored. The place of the Artyn culture among other Late Neolithic and Early Bronze Age cultures is assessed. This culture belonged to the Late Neolithic stage in the evolution of autochthonous Ob-Irtysh community. |
