The main results of the research on the cultural layer of the Samarovsky Yam settlement (Khanty-Mansiysk)

Abstract

In 2016, archaeological excavations were carried out for the first time in the settlement of Samarovsky Yam (Khanty-Mansiysk) directed by I.Yu. Chikunova. The cultural layers of the 17th–20th centuries have been studied. This publication introduces the information and materials obtained during the excavations, and the results of the analysis of fish remains. Evidence has been found of the great flood of 1771, which left a thick sterile layer. This layer separated the cultural deposits of the 18th century. Stratigraphic data, coupled with the analysis of distribu-tion of various finds of wood, leather, metal, and molded, pottery and glazed ceramic ware, make it possible, in support of archival data, to trace on specific material the economic structure and changes in the level of economy of the first Russian population of Samarovsky Yam. Archaeoichthyological material is also a valuable informative archaeological source. The fish remains helped to clarify the species, size, age, and time of catching fish in the past. The study of the fish bone and scale remains made it possible to establish that whitefish species predomi-nated in the net fishing of the population of the Samarovsky Yam.