Archaeologists have found in Yamal stone Neolithic mines – REGNUM

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Muravlenko, August 25, 2015, 21:00 – REGNUM archeologists one of the Ural universities have found unique for Yamal West Siberian mine – mine Neolithic stone. Found on site Sugmut deposit located 90 kilometers from the city Muravlenko, pits may be the ancestors of mining in Western Siberia, the press service of the University.

The find was called Em-it 2, as during previous excavations Ural Federal University scientists have found a settlement, which was called the ET-1 With the help of radiocarbon analysis of coal from the hearths they found out that the remoteness of the artifacts – six – six and a half thousand years. The new discovery suggests that the stone on the Yamal Peninsula and began to produce more than six thousand years ago.

«Within a few years, we have conducted research and excavations at the hill of Mount Uvyr-unit where the width of the pit and found 3-4 meters and a depth of 2 meters, where probably the ancients quarried stone. We can say that this is the beginning of mining in Western Siberia – the head of the expedition, an assistant professor of History Department of Archaeology and Ethnology Love Kosinskaya. -This Is unique, as the whole of Western Siberia, we know of no such complex. They are in Central and Western Europe, Kazakhstan, Ukraine, but not in Western Siberia; and the Urals special mines quarrying, as far as I know, there was no ».

Kosinskaya reports that scientists have found a fairly narrow set of stone tools: the bumpers, which pricked the stone blank, abrasive tools – grinding stones. Typically, local communities can be found scrapers, knives, ceramics. Here pottery was not. “The fact is that in traditional societies is very clearly divided all activities by sex and age lines. And Quarrying was probably a man’s job. For the business success – because of some ideological positions – had to separate themselves from the influence of women, and may be the reason the pottery there were not – explained the leader of the expedition. – Pottery fits into what we did in the Neolithic Age in Western Siberia and the Urals, but the method of patterning is not typical for this period for either Zauralye nor Urals or Western Siberia nor Altai ».

Found weighing more than 100 kilograms of August 21 brought to Yekaterinburg. In the study of artifacts found on the instructions of the Ministry of Culture of Russia at the university archaeologists have three years. Then go to the museum artifacts and Exhibition Complex. Shemanovsky in Salekhard as the Center of archaeological research expedition conducted excavations IGNI commissioned by the Scientific Research Center of the Arctic.

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