Excavation of Buza II site (Krasnoyarsk reservoir)

In 2016 archaeological group of Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography SB RAS and V.P. Astafiev Krasnoyarsk State Pedagogical University jointly undertook the excavations of the site Buza II (northernpart of Krasnoyarsk reservoir). Being laid in the Early Holocene level, an impressive collection of artifacts (approximately 2000 items) was excavated from the pit on the undestroyed part of the site. Besides, there are packing of pieces and platforms of porphyry. The collection of cores includes wedge-shaped microcores, edge-faceted microcores and cores for small blades. Large blades and the collection of2014-2015 artifacts indicate the existence of large cores on the site. The inventory includes angle, transversal burin and burin on concave retouched truncation, scaled piece, end scrappers, scrapper-like tools, blades and flakes with retouch. All the artifacts were discovered in the same cultural layer and typologically are the same with in situ materials, so it is possible to refer them to the one complex. Lacking of Mesolithic forms and “tradition” of making and using of large blades are distinguished archaeological complex Buza II from well-known Early Holocene industries (middle layer of Birusinka site, layers 15-17 of Eleneva cave, 5th layer of the site Bolshaya Slizneva). It allows us to use the term “Epipaleolithic” for Buza II site. Perhaps, the source of that term is in the development of archaeological complexes of Kokorevo archaeological culture and Final Pleistocene “industries of small blades”.