The new site of the Kudlaivka culture Luban-9 (results of archaeological research of 2021–2022)

Authors

  • Aliaksandr M. Vashanau Institute of History, National Academy of Sciences of Belarus, 1 Akademichnaja Street, Minsk 220072, Belarus
  • Maryia I. Tkachova Institute of History, National Academy of Sciences of Belarus, 1 Akademichnaja Street, Minsk 220072, Belarus

Keywords:

archeology, Mesolithic, Kudlaivka culture, stratigraphy, planigraphy, radiocarbon dating, microliths
Supporting Agencies
The research was carried out with the support of Belarusian Republican Foundation for Fundamental Research within the framework of the scientific project No. Г23-079 «Community of hunter-fishermen of the early Holocene according to archaeological and natural science studies of the settlements of Polesie and Prepolesie». The authors express their sincere gratitude to the doctoral student of the doctoral school of exact and natural sciences (University of Lodz) D. Tsvirko, for his help in the description and interpretation of the stratigraphy and the obtained datings.

Abstract

The article presents the first results of the archaeological research of the new Mesolithic site Luban-9. The settlement was discovered in 2020 by M. M. Kryvalcevich during a survey of the territory in the planned construction of a fire station in the city of Luban (Minsk Region). During the 2021–2022 field seasons the settlement was investigated on an area of 21 m2. The archaeological collection includes 820 artifacts, among which 803 are artifacts of various raw material types (flint, quartzite, quartz). Anoxic conditions of occurrence contributed to the possibility of preserving organic materials (wood, bone, etc.) on the territory of the settlement. The analysis of the stratigraphy shows the distinctiveness of the settlement among the Mesolithic antiquities of the region. The discovered materials find a wide range of analogies on the site of the Kudlaivka culture on the territory of Belarus (Aziarnoje-1, Aziarnoje-2Б, Luban-1, Luban-7, etc.). Based on the obtained radiocarbon dating, the settlement dates to the end of the 10th and the beginning of the 8th millenium BC, which corresponds to the first half of the Preboreal – the end of the second phase of the Boreal period and is chronologically related to the early Mesolithic. Thus, Luban-9 is the first settlement of the Kudlaivka culture on the territory of Belarus for which it was possible to determine the absolute age.

Author Biographies

  • Aliaksandr M. Vashanau, Institute of History, National Academy of Sciences of Belarus, 1 Akademichnaja Street, Minsk 220072, Belarus

    researcher at the department of archeology of primitive society

  • Maryia I. Tkachova, Institute of History, National Academy of Sciences of Belarus, 1 Akademichnaja Street, Minsk 220072, Belarus

    researcher at the department of archeology of primitive society

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2025-01-31

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No. 1 (2025): Journal of the Belarusian State University. History

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Vashanau, A.M. and Tkachova, M.I. 2025. The new site of the Kudlaivka culture Luban-9 (results of archaeological research of 2021–2022). Journal of the Belarusian State University. History. 1 (Jan. 2025), 71–84.