title: The Site of the Maykop Culture in the Mountains of the Northwestern Caucasus
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metadata.value: Ostashinskii, Sergei M.
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metadata.value: Cherlenok, Evgenii A.
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metadata.name: dc.date.accessioned
metadata.value: 2021-08-18T12:21:05Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.available
metadata.value: 2021-08-18T12:21:05Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.issued
metadata.value: 2021-06
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metadata.value: Ostashinskii S. M., Cherlenok E. A. The Site of the Maykop Culture in the Mountains of the Northwestern Caucasus. Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. History, 2021, vol. 66, issue 2, рp. 585–601.
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metadata.value: https://doi.org/10.21638/11701/spbu02.2021.216
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metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/32784
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metadata.value: The Meshoko rock shelter was first explored in the 1960s. Along with some other settlements
  in the vicinity, its materials were interpreted as evidence of the synchronism of the
  early Maykop and late Eneolithic cultures. Modern excavations have shown that Maykop and
  Eneolithic finds are concentrated in different layers, with natural deposits between them. The
  stratigraphic sequence of the Meshoko rock shelter consisted of six main layers. Maykop artifacts
  were in the third layer from above. The most interesting object discovered there is the
  hearth, the base and walls of which were formed by limestones. No evidence of a dwelling was
  found, which probably indicates the temporary nature of the settlement. The few Eneolithic
  materials cannot be confidently synchronized with the Maykop culture. It is more likely that
  they were introduced into the third layer through pits which were dug down from the Maykop
  level. The bulk of the collection of the third layer is associated with the Maykop culture, most
  likely with the middle stage of its development (Inozemtsevo-Kostromskaia). This conclusion
  corresponds to the radiocarbon dates of the settlement, which were about 3600–3000 BC.
  The Meshoko rock shelter is located at the bottom of the mountain gorge. This is unusual for
  Maykop sites, which, as a rule, occupy the steppe and flat areas of the foothills. Also, there
  are no close analogies in the paleoethnobotany and archaeozoology assemblages. The study
  of these ecofacts indicate that the Maykop population probably lived in a forest zone and was
  well adapted to the conditions of the local environment.
metadata.lang: en_GB
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metadata.value: en
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metadata.name: dc.publisher
metadata.value: St Petersburg State University
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metadata.name: dc.relation.ispartofseries
metadata.value: Vestnik of St Petersburg University. History;Volume 66; Issue 2
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: the Northwestern Caucasus
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: the Maykop culture
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metadata.value: Eneolithic
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: cultural attribution
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: chronology
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metadata.name: dc.title
metadata.value: The Site of the Maykop Culture in the Mountains of the Northwestern Caucasus
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metadata.value: Article
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