NOVIY KATYSH IVA AND IVB — KULAI SETTLEMENTS IN THE KONDA RIVER BASIN (WESTERN SIBERIA); [НОВЫЙ КАТЫШ IVА И IVБ — КУЛАЙСКИЕ ПОСЕЛЕНИЯ В БАССЕЙНЕ Р. КОНДЫ (ЗАПАДНАЯ СИБИРЬ)]

Abstract

In 1980, the Kondinsky detachment of the Ural Archaeological expedition conducted excavations in the vicinity of the village of Novy Katysh (Kondinsky district, Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug). The revealed buildings are typical for the monuments of the Early Iron Age of the Taiga zone of Western Siberia. The dwellings with deepened pits at the Novy Katysh IVa settlement are located further from the coastal edge than the above-ground buildings at the Novy Katysh IVb. Perhaps this reflects the different seasons of their habitat. The cult casting finds correspondences in the metal plastics of the Surgut Ob region. For the manufacture of pottery, the potters used hardened clays. One range of artificial additives was used: soil, chamotte, sand, organic solution. There is a difference in the traditions of forming the molding mass between the two sites. Three recipes with predominance of mixed Clay + Chamotte + Sand were found at the Novy Katysh IVa settlement. At the Novy Katysh IVb settlement, seven recipes were identified in both buildings, but two unmixed recipes — Clay + Sand and Clay + Chamotte — are dominant. A comparison of the Novokatysh ware with the Kulai ware of the Surgut Ob region suggested that in the latter the tradition of adding sand to the molding mass is introduced. One of its sources could be the Kulai population living in the Konda River basin. The route from the Konda basin to the Middle Ob has been known since the Neolithic. On this route, the Central Ob Kulai population could develop new territories. The return route could be associated with marital contacts, ritual acts, trade and exchange relations. © 2024 Institute of History and Archeology of the Ural Branch of RAS. All rights reserved.