ПРЕДВАРИТЕЛЬНЫЙ АНАЛИЗ ФАУНИСТИЧЕСКИХ МАТЕРИАЛОВ С МНОГОСЛОЙНОЙ СТОЯНКИ ИТЫРХЕЙ (МАЛОЕ МОРЕ, ОЗЕРО БАЙКАЛ)

• Main Authors: НОМОКОНОВА Т.Ю., ЛОЗЕЙ Р. ДЖ., ГОРЮНОВА О.И.
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Федеральное государственное бюджетное образовательное учреждение высшего образования «Иркутский национальный исследовательский технический университет» 2006
• Subjects: Alces alces
• Online Access: http://cyberleninka.ru/article/n/predvaritelnyy-analiz-faunisticheskih-materialov-s-mnogosloynoy-stoyanki-ityrhey-maloe-more-ozero-baykal; http://cyberleninka.ru/article_covers/16962777.png

Summary This paper presents a preliminary analysis of faunal materials from the multilayered site Ityrkhei located on the west coast of Lake Baikal and occupied from the Late Mesolithic to the Iron centuries. We describe the animal species identified in the Ityrkhei assemblage, discuss our laboratory identification methods, and describe relative fauna abundance by strata and chronology. Special attention is paid to the importance of use of comparative osteological collection and methods of quantitative analysis. Faunal from the multilayered site of Ityrkhei were generated from excavations in 1975-1976 and 2005 and consist of 19698 animal bones; 19494 of these, or 98.96%, are fish bones. Five mammal species (Alces alces, Capreolus capreolus, Cervus elaphus, Canis familiaris and Phoca sibirica), one genera of bird {Anas spp.), and four taxa of fish (Percafluviatilis, Esox lucius, Coregonus spp., and Cyprinidae) were identified. The combination of these data also provided some insight into patterns in subsistence practices at the site and how these changed through time. Based on the overwhelming domination offish bones, fishing was in all likelihood the primary subsistence activity at the site during most of its occupation. The fish taxa focused on where consistently representatives of family cyprinidae and perch. Pike and whitefish/omul were also utilized by the site inhabitants, but to a much lesser extent. All of these fish could have been procured from relatively shallow areas of the lake immediately adjacent to the site. The deposition offish at Ityrkhei was most intense from the Middle Mesolithic uirough the Developed Neolithic. Another fairly consistently subsistence activity at the site was seal hunting. At Ityrkhei, seals were probably procured in small numbers from the Mesolithic through the Developed Neolithic but were apparently not hunted from the site during the Bronze and Iron ages. Bones of ungulates and birds are found in less numbers. Limited artiodactyl hunting was also occasionally undertaken by the site's inhabitants. Summary This paper presents a preliminary analysis of faunal materials from the multilayered site Ityrkhei located on the west coast of Lake Baikal and occupied from the Late Mesolithic to the Iron centuries. We describe the animal species identified in the Ityrkhei assemblage, discuss our laboratory identification methods, and describe relative fauna abundance by strata and chronology. Special attention is paid to the importance of use of comparative osteological collection and methods of quantitative analysis. Faunal from the multilayered site of Ityrkhei were generated from excavations in 1975-1976 and 2005 and consist of 19698 animal bones; 19494 of these, or 98.96%, are fish bones. Five mammal species (Alces alces, Capreolus capreolus, Cervus elaphus, Canis familiaris and Phoca sibirica), one genera of bird {Anas spp.), and four taxa of fish (Percafluviatilis, Esox lucius, Coregonus spp., and Cyprinidae) were identified. The combination of these data also provided some insight into patterns in subsistence practices at the site and how these changed through time. Based on the overwhelming domination offish bones, fishing was in all likelihood the primary subsistence activity at the site during most of its occupation. The fish taxa focused on where consistently representatives of family cyprinidae and perch. Pike and whitefish/omul were also utilized by the site inhabitants, but to a much lesser extent. All of these fish could have been procured from relatively shallow areas of the lake immediately adjacent to the site. The deposition offish at Ityrkhei was most intense from the Middle Mesolithic uirough the Developed Neolithic. Another fairly consistently subsistence activity at the site was seal hunting. At Ityrkhei, seals were probably procured in small numbers from the Mesolithic through the Developed Neolithic but were apparently not hunted from the site during the Bronze and Iron ages. Bones of ungulates and birds are found in less numbers. Limited artiodactyl hunting was also occasionally undertaken by the site's inhabitants.