OOO «Krasnoyarsk Geoarchaeology», Bld. 1, 25 Mira Av., Krasnoyarsk, 660049, Russia [microcore@mail.ru]

Transbaikal State University, 30 Alexandro-Zavodskaya St., Chita, 672039, Russia [labpaleo@yandex.ru]

Abstract. The paper presents new data on the formation of culture bearing deposits at the site of Krutaya, belonging to the group of Afontova gora sites in Krasnoyarsk (East Siberia). The materials obtained in the course of explorations carried out in 2017 point to a long and gradual process of displacement of cultural layers that took place at the turn of the Pleistocene and Holocene due to slope processes. However, a number of pits of presumably zoogenic origins (like those dug by canids to stock up food), uncovered on the ancient surface, testifies that the process of displacement of cultural remains down the slope was discontinuous. At the same time, an object designated as «ravine enclosure», found in excavation area 1, contained fragments of a much older cultural layer (presumably older than 24 ky) displaced on to the surface of the culture-bearing deposits of the site of Krutaya (11–9kya).The search for the causes and timing of formation of culture-bearing layers which underwent various kinds of displacement due to natural processes is one of new directions in the geoarchaeological study of the Afontova gora sites.

Keywords: Late Paleolithic, Afontova gora, Krutaya site, formation of culture-bearing deposits, stratigraphy, palimpsest, stone inventory.

Received 17.08.2021, revised 06.11.2021, accepted 10.11.2021.

DOI: 10.31600/2658-3925-2021-2-57-74.

For citation: Artemiev E. V., Razgildeeva I. I. Formation of cultural layers at the Krutaya site: towards the question of palimpsest archaeological assemblages. Prehistoric Archaeology. Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies. 2021 (2), 57–74. DOI: 10.31600/2658-3925-2021-2-57-74

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