Pages: 319-353 | DOI: https://doi.org/10.55086/sp242319353 

In 1967—1968, M.F. Kosarev excavated a fortified settlement of the Molchanovo culture 9^th—8^th/7^th centuries BC in the Shaitanka River basin, and identified it as a “ring fort” surrounded by a moat, rampart and palisade. Subsequently, the researcher attributed it to the large wood-earthen “fortified dwellings” identified by the author. The northernmost distribution area of these fortifications was in the western regions of the taiga Ob’River Region. Buildings of this type began to form here in the Neolithic - Eneolithic (6^th — 3^rd millennium BC) and became widespread in the Bronze Age (late 3^rd millennium — 8^th century BC). In the Narym Ob’ River Region and the Ket’ River Basin, fortified dwellings appeared as a result of the migration of fishermen-hunters from the Lower and Surgut Ob’ River Region, caused by a sharp cooling and humidification of the climate at the turn of the 2^nd — 1^st millennium BC.

Keywords: Western Siberia, Ob’ River Region, taiga, Late Bronze Age, fortified dwelling

Information about author:

Victor Borzunov (Yekaterinburg, Russian Federation). Candidate of Historical Sciences. Ural Federal University named after the First President of Russia B. N. Yeltsin. Lenin Ave., 51, Yekaterinburg, 620083, Russian Federation
E-mail: [email protected]
ORCID: 0000-0003-0085-2230