Lithic artifacts from Novoil'inka VI settlement: petrographic description and express analysis of elemental composition (preliminary results)

Until recently, the Eneolithic sites were unknown at the territory of Kulunda. Consequently, every new Neolithic site significantly enlarge the data for this period in ancient history of Altai. Novoil'inka VI settlement the new Eneolithic site was obtained in the Khabarsky district of Altai Territory in 2013. The Eneolithic dwelling was investigated in the Novoiljinka settlement during the 2014 excavation campaign. Archaeological collection numbers tens of thousands artifacts. Process of laboratory study gave the researchers a task to determine what regions were the sources of lithic raw material passed to Northern Kulunda. The artifact selection (tools and products of lithic industry) was picked out to solve this task. The petrographic analysis showed that robust magmatics, sedimentary and metamorphic rocks (rarely quartz) were used for artifact production. Most of them is measures from terrigenous-volcanic rock mass. Generally, it is siliceous phases (for sedimentary rocks), microquartzite and extrusive rock, which can be met as on the north-western slopes of Altai (Altai Territory, Kazakhstan), well as in the Kazakh hummocky topography, according to petrographic macrodescription. Express analysis of elemental composition added the conducted work and carried out by X-Ray fluorescence method. Research were provide with “X-Ray fluorescence Analyser X-Art M”, which are intended for express analysis of elemental composition. It permitted to get an additional information that rocks contained the rare earth metals: Ga, Rb, Zr and others. This research purposes that further study will give an opportunity to associate the samples with concrete lithic outcrops and clear determine the sources of raw materials passed out to Kulunda