Otcherednoy A.K., Remizov S.O., Ivanov Ya.D., et al. Distribution and Preservation Status of the Cultural Layer at the Middle Paleolithic Site Chelyuskinets II (Based on the Results of 2025 Fieldwork)
Aleksander K. Otcherednoy, Candidate of Sciences (History), Senior Researcher, Paleolithic Department, Institute for the History of Material Culture of Russian Academy of Sciences, Dvortsovaya Emb., 18, 191181 Saint Petersburg, Russian Federation; Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography of the Siberian Branch of Russian Academy of Sciences, Prosp. acad. Lavrentieva, 17, 630090 Novosibirsk, Russian Federation
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Stanislav O. Remizov, Researcher, Ethnographic and Architectural Museum-Preserve “Old Sarepta”, Izobilnaya St, 10, 400026 Volgograd, Russian Federation
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Yaroslav D. Ivanov, Laboratory Assistant, Paleolithic Department, Institute for the History of Material Culture of Russian Academy of Sciences, Dvortsovaya Emb., 18, 191181 Saint Petersburg, Russian Federation; Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography of the Siberian Branch of Russian Academy of Sciences, Prosp. acad. Lavrentieva, 17, 630090 Novosibirsk, Russian Federation
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Pavel G. Klimenko, Researcher, Lower Volga Archaeological Society, Koltsova St, 54, 400111 Volgograd, Russian Federation
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Vyacheslav A. Martin, First-Year Master’s Student, Saint Petersburg State University Institute of Geosciences, 10-ya Liniya V. O., 31–35 Saint Petersburg, Russian Federation
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Darya I. Verkholomova, Intern, Paleolithic Department, Institute for the History of Material Culture of Russian Academy of Sciences, Dvortsovaya Emb., 18, 191181 Saint Petersburg, Russian Federation
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Redzhep N. Kurbanov, Candidate Sciences (Geography), Leading Researcher, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Leninskie Gory, 1, 119991 Moscow, Russian Federation; Institute of Geography of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Staromonetny Lane, 29, Bld. 4 119017 Moscow, Russian Federation
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Idris A. Idrisov, Candidate of Sciences (Geography), Leading Researcher, Laboratory of Hydrogeology and Geoecology, Institute of Geology, Dagestan Scientific Centre of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Yaragskogo St, 75, 367009 Makhachkala, Russian Federation
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Abstract. This article presents the results of fieldwork conducted by the Lower Volga Paleolithic team of the Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, as part of the 2025 Lower Volga Expedition of the Institute for the History of Material Culture of the Russian Academy of Sciences. During the season, the study of the Middle Paleolithic site of Chelyuskinets II, located in the Pichuga ravine of the Dubovsky District, Volgograd region, was continued. The primary objective of the 2025 research was to establish the extent of the site’s cultural deposits and determine their state of preservation. To this end, a continuous 26-meter profile was prepared between two areas discovered on the left side of the cape in previous years. This profile not only allowed for tracing the distribution and refining the position of the site’s cultural layer but also for identifying its preservation characteristics. The cultural layer comprises individual blocks of dense grayish-blue loam, which in turn lie at a uniform level but with distinct, apparently rhythmic discontinuities along the strike, within a layer of highly ferruginous coarse sand. Within each individual block, the cultural layer has been preserved in situ. As a result of the work, the collections of stone artifacts and fauna have been expanded, and prospects for further study of Chelyuskinets II have been clarified.
Key words: Lower Volga, Chelyuskinets II, Middle Paleolithic, Micoquian/KMG, cultural layer, MIS 6e.
Citation. Otcherednoy A.K., Remizov S.O., Ivanov Ya.D., Klimenko P.G., Martin V.A., Verkholomova D.I., Kurbanov R.N., Idrisov I.A., 2026. Osobennosti rasprostraneniya i stepeni sohrannosti kul’turnogo sloya srednepaleoliticheskoy stoyanki Chelyuskinets II (po rezul’tatam rabot 2025 g.) [Distribution and Preservation Status of the Cultural Layer at the Middle Paleolithic Site Chelyuskinets II (Based on the Results of 2025 Fieldwork)]. Nizhnevolzhskiy Arkheologicheskiy Vestnik [The Lower Volga Archaeological Bulletin], vol. 25, no. 1, pp. 184-195. DOI: https://doi.org/10.15688/nav.jvolsu.2026.1.9
Distribution and Preservation Status of the Cultural Layer at the Middle Paleolithic Site Chelyuskinets II (Based on the Results of 2025 Fieldwork) by Otcherednoy A.K., Remizov S.O., Ivanov Ya.D., Klimenko P.G., Martin V.A., Verkholomova D.I., Kurbanov R.N., Idrisov I.A. is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
