Results of the Study of the Chernovka I Campsite in the Samara Volga Region

The paper deals with the results of study of the Chernovka I campsite located in the Sergiyevsk district, Samara region. The topography of site, the history of its study, information about stratigraphy and planigraphy of archaeological material location are considered. The characteristics of pottery assemblage of site and technology of pottery making are discussed. The detail description of the stone inventory and the main types of tools are presented. It characterizes the identified objects and burials studied within the excavation site. The materials from the site can be divided into several cultural-chronological groups, marking short-term phases of anthropogenic activity. The earliest is associated with the Mesolithic period and dates back to the beginning of the second quarter of the VIII millennium BC. Most of the morphologically marked tools, primarily the asymmetric trapezoid, find direct analogies in assemblages of the Yangelka culture from the Southern Trans-Urals. The next episode of visitation at the campsite dates back to the end of the second quarter of the VI millennium BC and records the economic activity of Neolithic groups there. Equally short-term was the presence at the site of bearers of the Early Eneolithic Khvalynsk culture. Another rather expressive group of artifacts may be associated with the late Eneolithic (Chekalino-type ceramics). Finally, the site was visited episodically in the late Bronze Age and the late Middle Ages; two burials are associated with this last phase.