Grachev M.A., Zimina O.Yu., Prikhodko N.V., Sharapova S.V. Kurgans of the Sargat Culture in the Middle Irtysh River Basin: New Approaches in Estimation of Social Landscape
Maxim A. Grachev, Head of the Museum, Omsk State Pedagogical University, Partizanskaya St, 4а, 644099 Omsk, Russian Federation
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Oksana Yu. Zimina, Candidate of Sciences (History), Senior Researcher, Tyumen Scientific Centre of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Malygina St, 86, 625026 Tyumen, Russian Federation
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Nickolay V. Prikhodko, Head of the Department of Remote Sensing and GIS, Tyumen State University, Przhevalskogo St, 37, 625000 Tyumen, Russian Federation
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Svetlana V. Sharapova, Candidate of Sciences (History), Leading Researcher, Institute of History and Archaeology of the Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, S. Kovalevskaya St, 16, 620108 Yekaterinburg, Russian Federation
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Abstract. The article deals with results of airborne laser scanning, which was undertaken with drone above selected locations of kurgans of the Sargat culture in the middle Irtysh river basin (Omsk region) and its correlation with total station data of terrain survey. The selected scanning area covers imposing “Princely kurgans” situated on a plowed field and small mounds inside birch forest. The scanning results were processed with various filters for further creation of a digital terrain model (DTM), and then based on DTM, a topographical relief of the area under study was presented with a step of 1.0 m and of 0.1–0.2 m for sites of kurgan groups’ locations. Structures visible on DTM are coincided in quantity, size and relative position with previously recorded kurgan mounds. Besides already known archaeological objects DTM allows identifying structures similar to small kurgans mapped during terrain prospection, but requires further clarification in a course of electromagnetic survey or excavation. Combination of field and cartographic approaches provides estimation of topography particularities and hierarchy of kurgans various in size and remoteness. Small kurgans are mapped at lower hypsometric levels and distinctly close to the origins of the ravines. “Princely kurgans” were accommodated to dominant heights of foremost river terrace what was decisive in landscape exploitation, i.e. new territory markers were erected and thus transformation of landscape into social sense occurred. The particularity of the graveyard functioning was reconstructed based on data recorded during excavation of various kurgans in different sides of the area under study.
Key words: middle Irtysh river basin, Sargat culture, social landscape, airborne laser scanning, terrain digital model.
Citation. Grachev M.A., Zimina O.Yu., Prikhodko N.V., Sharapova S.V., 2024. Kurgany sargatskoy kul’tury Srednego Priirtysh’ya: novye podhody k otsenke sotsial’nogo landshafta [Kurgans of the Sargat Culture in the Middle Irtysh River Basin: New Approaches in Estimation of Social Landscape]. Nizhnevolzhskiy Arkheologicheskiy Vestnik [The Lower Volga Archaeological Bulletin], vol. 23, no. 4, pp. 53-74. DOI: https://doi.org/10.15688/nav.jvolsu.2024.4.3
Kurgans of the Sargat Culture in the Middle Irtysh River Basin: New Approaches in Estimation of Social Landscape by Grachev M.A., Zimina O.Yu., Prikhodko N.V., Sharapova S.V. is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
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