Archaeological geological study of terrace of Lower Katun river mountain valley (Mountain Altay)

Conducted by the international research team the integrated archaeological and geological investigations of the Lower Katun Valley offer a new challenge to identify the most ancient archaeological sites, to study the historical dynamics of the same territory development at various times, as well as to analyze the natural disaster effect to development of the different archaeological cultures. Special focus was on the some problems. One of them supposes to reveal and date by the methods of natural sciences the osteological material of paleofaunal inhabitants of Lower Katun mountain valley in the Late Pleistocene. Another one purposes to reveal and date by the methods of natural sciences the burial complexes of Paleomethal time with the evidences of ancient seismic activity. In a course of this investigation, there has been a wave of results. Foremost, it gave the opportunity to describe the facies architecture of deposition forming them, as well as to determine that base of middle and high terraces was formed by depositions of giant glacial floods, the last of them could happened in the valley during the MIS-4. Secondly, it allowed to study asynchronous and diverse archaeological sites from Stone Age to Iron Age in a massive scale, and to define the prospective target near the Chultukov Log-9 site. Thirdly, the evidences of ancient earthquakes with М≥5,5-6 were educed into the structure of Saldzar formation and into the architecture of barrows from the Chultukov Log-1 site for the first time for this territory.