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We lose archaeological heritage irrevocably in case of flooding, and if we don't save these monuments, of course, everything will go under water, and that's it, that's the end.

There will remain stones that we will find on the shore of the reservoir.

In general, we will find them for another 50 years, but we will never know from what context they occur, that is, what culture they belong to, who made them.

Breaking the dense smoke cover of forest fires, which have been blazing in the Kizhim district for the second week, the ship sails to the east.

The Novosibirsk archaeological detachment of Artyom Grishin heads to the wild lands of the northern Angara.

Thank you.

We are now on the territory of an old Russian village, which, in turn, stands on the layers of the Middle Ages, the early Iron Age and the Neolithic.

This monument has the same name as the Russian village of Pasha.

Between us, between the workers, it is the most difficult work to remove the dorn, because we constantly pick up the moss and it is difficult to cut the grass, the roots, to throw the soil.

Unlike the Novosibirsk archaeologists, the people of Krasnoyarsk, which is a few kilometers below the current, are already digging everywhere.

The camps have been destroyed for a long time, the field life has been arranged.

They arrived five days earlier.

Promotion into the depths of the centuries.

They were waiting for him, they were preparing for him.

Archaeologists conducted reconnaissance, dug shurfs to determine whether the land was rich or local for artifacts.

They don't just dig the ground, they explore it.

Jewelry work.

The main thing is not to damage the finds, to get the maximum information from everyone.

Even if it is a tiny fragment of a ceramic vessel, larger objects are found.

From stone tools of labor, arrowheads, spears, to bronze axes and knives.

Angara is the bank of the river, it is an ancient road, along which from ancient times, starting from the very early stage of man's appearance on this territory, he walked along the bank.

Therefore, the strip at the edge of the terrace, 20 meters long, is just a historical tract of all eras, of all times.

In the camp of Novosibirsk Artyom Grishin, today, according to the plan, economic affairs.

Tomorrow, armed with shovels, scrapers and brushes, the detachment will plunge into the depths of the hangar history.

This is how a week or two passes.

The month has already ended since the Novosibirsk people landed on the archaeological monument of Pashino near the so-called small river.

The team has united.

Some dig, others wash, clean up the finds, the third draws ancient objects.

The pencil is more reliable than the camera.

The photo can not convey the smallest cracks and cracks.

Here everyone is in their place, like a screw in a huge mechanism that works without fights.

Perhaps as deep as here, they do not dig anywhere on the Angara.

Almost three meters.

Monument to the archeology of the kolpaks of the streams.

Evgeny Rybin's detachment works here.

In this ancient land, scientists found ornaments made in the so-called animal style.

The most interesting and unexpected result of our work on this monument

there was an opening of the cultural complex of the epoch of the ancient Khamenei century or the Paleolithic.

The monuments of this time on the territory of the northern Priangara can be counted on the finger of one hand.

Evgenia Rybina's detachment stands at the foot of a high mountain.

The Angara running west is well visible from it.

You can see the ship going up in the current.

On the way back, sailing to the prehistoric land, which was explored by the Novosibirsk team led by Artyom Grishin, the ship will take on the role of a separatist.

Turgenev.

One of the largest islands on the Angara.

Over 15 kilometers in length, about 5 in width.

Now it is a wild piece of land.

And yet, once upon a time, life was key here.

What did you find?

Either a otter, or a pike.

But I am inclined to say that it is a pike.

Judging by the skull cap and by the gills cap.

They lie for a very long time.

How long are they?

Presumably, maybe 3-4 thousand years.

What is this?

I can't understand.

Are they really sailors?

Here we began to gradually accumulate a collection of ancient ichthyo-fauna.

Later, it will be possible to restore the picture of bio-resources that existed at that time, as well as a diet, food, for example.

The main massif

Findings are, as a rule, a stone inventory, a variety of stone tools.

And a significant importance from the point of view of archaeology is a ceramic material.

For example, for each epoch, for each region, there was at least its own ornamental tradition.

Of course, there are differences in the technology of production.

And if, for example, in some region, when there is such a stable ornamental and ceramic tradition for a certain era,

during the work on some monument is archaeological material from another ceramic tradition, already you can talk about some contacts in the most common sense, some migrations.

We found this thing on the excavation, but it was not cleaned, it looked like a simple stone object, maybe a product.

And after it was cleaned and washed in the chamber, it turned out to be a lithe, and a two-sided form.

for casting small, well, probably bronze objects.

It is difficult to say here.

The shape itself is a stone tile, a slag, a fairly plastic material.

It has cut out the contours, that is, the volumes of those objects that are cast from both sides.

And what is most interesting, so far we do not have any analogies in our heads to those objects that

At least.

The reward is a can of condensed milk, if there is a very valuable item, or if a person is lucky enough to find 5-7 individual finds.

Individual finds are the weapons of labor.

What I have already listed is the tip of an arrow, axes, chisels, scrapers.

What you eat at home with indifference or do not breathe, in the expedition, as a rule, you begin to weave for both cheeks.

Here, in general, you treat the usual things that you perceive in the city as a gift.

Warmth, a roof over your head, even if it's just a tent stand protecting you from the rain.

There are no trifles in the hiking life, and everything has a triple price.

Autonomous existence in a closed team puts its imprint on the squad.

It is difficult not to wander on the taiga banks.

It is far from the native Novosibirsk.

The work is not easy, it is monotonous.

That is why they work under the music.

There is also an inspiration to listen to Alexander Staroseltsev.

In the evening he reads a book, in the afternoon he retells it to his colleagues.

By the way, such things used to happen often among archaeologists.

There were neither players nor tape recorders.

Some people come here and look at it with wild eyes.

Not them at all.

And some people who come here for the first time get sick and then drive and drive and drive.

Today is a special date.

August 15.

The day of the archaeologist.

The catch will be fried and divided into two parts.

The guys will collect the lingonberry, the girls will make the compote from the berries, prepare the salads, even bake the cakes.

And the traditional songs at the fire will sound longer, louder and more immersive than in any other night spent in the taiga.

How slowly the remains swim,

The last steamboat in Mangare.

How slowly it sails on the Stalki.

The last steamboat in Mangare.

The archipelago of 39 islands, covered with tents and tents in the middle of the green sea of the taiga, stretched for more than 300 kilometers.

From Kodinsk to Ust-Ilimsk.

Here they save history.

1100 people.

Russian archaeology did not know more large-scale excavations.

In one season, everything cannot be dug up.

dozens of cultural heritage objects.

After the launch of the Boguchansky Gas, appointed for March 2012, they will enter the flood zone of the reservoir.

The hand-made sea rises above the river by almost 80 meters.

The results are very impressive.

It can be said with full reason that not a single new page has been written in the history of the peoples of Siberia and Russia as a whole.

In the heating zone of the Boguchanskaya gas station, houses are open.

The same as, say, in the Far East, that is, people did not just lead nomadic or semi-nomadic lifestyle, but lived as settlers.

And it is no coincidence that now in Eastern Siberia very early ceramics were found, at the age of 8-9 thousand years BC, that is, 10-11 thousand years ago, the ancient Siberians already used ceramics, just like in the Far East, like in Japan and so on.

Artyom Grishin's detachment could not find the remains of the ancient settlement.

Alexander Savinus and his comrades were more fortunate.

At the border of the Irkutsk region and the Krasnoyarsk region, studying the monument to the archeology of the Konny stream, the scientist found the city of the Bronze Age.

The wonderful feature of this settlement is that it is a single-layer settlement.

Accordingly, in the future,

a standard monument of this period, which will allow us to date not only the nearest complexes, but also many monuments along the middle course of the Yangara River.

In terms of scale, the settlement was in ancient times comparable to the city, although it had no signs of strengthening.

There were no ditches, no walls, no other defensive structures.

But at the settlement, at the moment, there are 43 residential basements, which already speaks of the scale.

The housing is relatively small.

From 20 to 36 square meters each housing.

According to approximate calculations, in one housing could comfortably exist approximately 4 people.

From here we can calculate the number of the whole village, which could count up to 600 people.

In almost every house, there are skulls of ceramic vessels.

From them, as if a mosaic, the archaeologists collected an ancient smokestack.

A must-have item from Moschka and Komarov.

He put it on the bottom of the gnilushka, set it on fire, covered it with a lid, put it next to him and let it go.

The gnooze will fly away.

The archaeological culture that left this monument after itself is, most likely, the culture of the past.

And it is most likely that it came from the territory of the pre-Baikal region.

Most likely, again, at the end of the Bronze Age, the Bronze Age.

Coming to the territory of Pryangar, this very pre-Baikal culture, the local population of the late Bronze Age met here.

And for a certain period, as long as it is, unfortunately, we cannot say, they co-existed practically on the same territory.

At the same time, co-existence was actually peaceful.

The second month is in the dark.

There is no Internet, cell phones do not work.

Local fishermen bring news from the mainland to the archaeologists, who occasionally appear in squads.

They are interested in finds, warming up by the fire.

It is August now, but the participants of the expedition still live with the July news.

Their desolation is alien to them.

Ha ha ha!

The camp of Novosibirsk Artyom Grishin, the island of Turgenev.

Not all works have yet been carried out at this cultural heritage site.

However, the head of the detachment made a willful decision.

With a difficult, but at the same time full of romance expedition life, 13 people will part.

Someone did not look at the routine of beauty, which means that he did not fall in love with prehistoric land, its sunsets, sunrises, white nights and cold mists that cover the northern river in the morning.

Such excavations are difficult, and someone needs to return to civilization due to family circumstances.

One way or another, but the first batch of researchers must be taken out already now, on a journey ship.

It is difficult to go home with the whole squad in two weeks right after the end of the field season.

The participants of the expedition will look after each other for a long time and, hiding the tears of parting, hope that in the next season the excavations will begin again in the boguchanskoye gas.

The researchers will be able to meet and, as before, taking the shovels and brushes, plunge into the depths of the hangar history.

For the future, save the past, until it is swallowed by the hand-made sea.