Dating of the archaeological wood substance from the site of Gornopravdinsk burial ground

The article is devoted to the application of the method of dendrochronological analysis for determining of calendar time when wood was being logged in the archaeological site of Gornopravdinsk burial (Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Region, Western Siberia). We sampled the wood from six plots (PIC-1, PIC-2, PS-1, PS-2, PIN-1, PIN-2) with a radius of 30 km from the township of Gornopravdinsk and four historical and architectural sites (located at 6 Tyumen street 6, Lenin street 7 (two buildings), Taiga street 14). These additional samples will be participate in cross-dating and determining of calendar time of studied construction together with samples of archaeological wood. The full dendrochronological collection consists of 212 samples. Primarily, we carried out the graphical cross-dating of individual series of increment for each research object. It gave the generalized chronology of each site. The samples of archaeological wood were standardized, cross-correlation dated between themselves and get the calendar links to absolute woody-ring chronology in the research area in the ensuing time. It was demonstrated in article that people had used the wood substance of the Scots pine (Pinus sylvestris L.) in production of burial constructions at the archaeological site of Gornopravdinsk burial ground. As carried out cross-dating has made it possible to establish the calendar dates of wood logging for the construction of archaeological objects in the township of Gornopravdinsk: hearse No. 6 - not older than 1850, the hearse No. 8 - not older than 1860, children coffin “casket” - not older than 1827. Thus, research results indicated that the dates of Gornopravdinsk burial grounds are older, than foundation of Gornopravdinsk township (1964) and refer to the time of previously existed village of Gornofilinskoe.