KOKSHAROVSKY KHOLM AND CHERTOVA GORA, TWO NEOLITHIC SANCTUARIES IN THE URAL AND IN WESTERN SIBERIA: SIMILARITIES AND DIFFERENCES

• Published in: Archaeology, Ethnology & Anthropology of Eurasia
• Main Authors: A. F. Shorin, А. Ф. Шорин
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: Russian; English
• Published: IAET SB RAS 2017
• Subjects: структура сакрального пространства; western Siberia; Neolithic; sanctuaries; sacred space; неолит; святилища; Flint; Gora; Kholm; khanty; Mansi; Siberia
• Online Access: https://journal.archaeology.nsc.ru/jour/article/view/263; https://doi.org/10.17746/1563-0110.2017.45.2.016-025

Two Neolithic sanctuaries are compared: Koksharovsky Kholm in the middle Ural and Chertova Gora in western Siberia. Both apparently represent related but separate populations represented by the Koshkino-Boborykino and Kozlov-Poludenka decorative traditions dating to the 7th–5th millennia BC (calibra...