Materials from the second horizon of the dwelling No. 2 at the Novoil'inka VI settlement (preliminary results)

Neolithic time is the one of the least studied periods in ancient history of Northern Kulunda. One of the problems in the study of Neolithic and Eneolithic settlement complexes in the South Western Siberia is associated with the character of sources we have at hand. On the territory of the steppe Kulunda within Altai Territory the Neolithic and Eneolithic settlement complexes are presented by sites, where cultural layers were destroyed by water or Aeolian erosion. Archaeological assemblages from these sites are surface or bed collections. In consequence of mechanical mixing of asynchronous artifacts it is impossible to separate the Neolithic and Eneolithic complexes from each other and from the materials of earlier and later periods. The situation is slowly changing for the better in recent years. Archaeologists identified Novoil'inka III the Eneolithic settlement and Novoil'inka VI. Novoil'inka VI settlement is a stratified site with two horizons: 1 - the period, when the dwelling pit was used as a place for garbage and food waste (final Eneolithic); 2 - the period, when the dwelling was used as a living space (Early - Developed Eneolithic). The utility pits from the second horizon in the dwelling No. 2 contained a kits of stone and bone tools and ceramic vessels. Probably, the ancient population deliberately left it. The archaeological material reflects the annual movement of stock-raising population in Kulunda steppe. The ancient people deliberately left these items, because they have moved to the area abundant by the lithic raw material for flaking.