Реферат: In 1982, a “vertical” burial of a child (aged 1.5–2 years) with a rich accompanying inventory was excavated in the village of Ust-Aleyka, Altayskii Krai, within the Barnaul Pri-Ob region. The grave goods included stone artifacts, ornaments made of bone and mammalian teeth, shells of bivalve mollusks (Unio), and bones of a marsh harrier (Circus aeruginosus), marmot (Marmota), and sable (Martes zibellina). AMS radiocarbon dates obtained from animal bone pendants yielded results of 4446-4346 calBCE (IGAN-5829) and 4318-3802 calBCE (NSKA-01941). A significant find in the burial was a shell of the marine gastropod mollusk Tritia nitida. This species is currently widespread along the Atlantic coast of Europe, as well as in the Mediterranean, Black, and Azov Seas, but has never inhabited the Altai region or neighboring territories of southern Western Siberia. In Southern Europe, ornaments made from T. nitida shells have been documented from the early stages of the Upper Paleolithic. However, a comprehensive review of archaeological sites in the Northern Mediterranean where Tritia shells have been found remains challenging. In Western European literature, T. nitida is often referred to as Nassarius reticulatus or N. reticulatus var. nitidus. Additionally, the mollusk Cyclope neritea is sometimes classified under the genus Tritia. The discovery of the Tritia nitida shell in this Neolithic burial suggests (likely indirect) contact between the Neolithic population in the steppe belt of Northern Eurasia, stretching from the Black Sea region to the Upper Ob River basin.

Библиографическая ссылка: Kirushin K.Y. , Shnaider S.V. , Borodaev V. , Kuzmenkin D. , Tolpeko I.
Shell of the Azov-Black Sea mollusk Trytia nitida in a Neolithic child burial from the Ust-Aleyka 5 cemetery (Barnaul Pri-Ob Region)
В сборнике 2nd Conference on the Emergence of the Neolithic in Europe. 2025.

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