ANCIENT SETTLEMENT SHELOMOK – 125 YEARS OF ARCHEOLOGICAL STUDY
Ancient settlement Shelomok is situated to the south of Tomsk city, on the right side of the river Tom. It occupies a separately standing isolated hill between villages Anikino and Kolarovo. The artifact is multi-layered and dates to the late Bronze Age, early Iron Age, Middle Ages. The ancient settlement occupies almost the whole top of the isolated hill that has steep slopes. On the least vulnerable side, there are artificial consolidations in the form of a pit and two earthworks. The artifact is an action-packed history of study. In 1888 the settlement and findings from its territory were mentioned for the first time, 125 years have passed since that moment. Regular archeological excavations are being performed here since 1944, but they picked special intensity at the end of 1970s – the beginning of 1980s. As of today, the collection from this site is estimated at thousands of items, but, unfortunately, the materials were published only selectively and had never been issued as a whole. Evidence of iron works production is of particular interest, as it allowed the researchers to reconstruct the technological processes of the Middle Ages. In 2011–2012 exploratory works on the artifact were carried out, aimed to survey the data on the current state of the site. Geographical position was plotted and survey of the isolated hill was performed by laser scanning, administered by experts of Tomsk Polytechnic University using Leica Scan Station C10.
Keywords: archeological studies, Tomsk TransOb region, ancient settlement, laser scanning
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Issue: 2, 2013
Series of issue: Issue 2
Rubric: ANTHROPOLOGY
Pages: 89 — 99
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