title: Cultural Layer in the Stone Age Sites of Northeastern Siberia
metadata.name: dc.contributor.author
metadata.value: Pitulko, Vladimir V.
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metadata.name: dc.date.accessioned
metadata.value: 2021-11-03T18:11:38Z
metadata.lang: -
metadata.name: dc.date.available
metadata.value: 2021-11-03T18:11:38Z
metadata.lang: -
metadata.name: dc.date.issued
metadata.value: 2021-09
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metadata.name: dc.identifier.citation
metadata.value: Pitulko V. V. Cultural Layer in the Stone Age Sites of Northeastern Siberia. Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. History, 2021, vol. 66, issue 3, рp. 867–889.
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.identifier.other
metadata.value: https://doi.org/10.21638/11701/spbu02.2021.311
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metadata.name: dc.identifier.uri
metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/33429
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metadata.name: dc.description.abstract
metadata.value: The phenomenon of the cultural layer is a fundamental concept of archaeology and the main
  object of study in the practice of field research. Despite this, its definition, surprisingly, still
  remains undeveloped. The widely known classical definition leaves many important questions
  unanswered. Thus, what about the horizon, formed in the past by redeposition of material,
  especially if this is not obvious? Can the bone-bearing horizon (for example, bone deposit of
  the mammoth “graveyard”) definitely human-created but lacking (completely or almost completely)
  of formal artifacts be regarded as a cultural layer? What about areas of primary archaeological
  contexts, the elements of which retain their original structure and interconnection,
  but have lost their original spatial position along with the block of matrix sediments? In similar
  cases, except for burial structures, the concept of culture-bearing deposits, representing a
  specific geological formation, will be much more universal. Then culture-bearing deposits are
  deposits locally enriched with traces of past human activities (artifacts, technological waste,
  biological remains, structures, i. e., cultural remains sensu lato) as a result of the transfer and
  accumulation of matter in the process of lithogenesis. It should be emphasized that up to 65 %
  of the territory of Russia is the permafrost area, while that of the former permafrost zone was
  significantly larger and included currently unfrozen areas. The culture-bearing deposits of the
  Stone Age sites of the Late Pleistocene age represented in these regions undoubtedly experienced
  the impact of cryogenic processes. The study of the Stone Age sites in Eastern Siberia
  provides the richest opportunities and material for the development of this issue.
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.description.sponsorship
metadata.value: The author would like to
  acknowledge the Russian Science Foundation (project no. 16-18-10265P RNF and 21-18-00457 RNF) for
  the support of the new cycle of research into the ancient past of the Russian Eastern Siberian Arctic.
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.language.iso
metadata.value: en
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.publisher
metadata.value: St Petersburg State University
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.relation.ispartofseries
metadata.value: Vestnik of St Petersburg University. History;Volume 66; Issue 3
metadata.lang: -
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: culture-bearing deposits
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Stone Age
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Upper Palaeolithic
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Arctic
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: permafrost
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: site formation process
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: deposition
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.title
metadata.value: Cultural Layer in the Stone Age Sites of Northeastern Siberia
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.type
metadata.value: Article
metadata.lang: en_GB
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