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<article article-type="research-article" dtd-version="1.3" xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xml:lang="en"><front><journal-meta><journal-id journal-id-type="publisher-id">nsc</journal-id><journal-title-group><journal-title xml:lang="en">Archaeology, Ethnology &amp; Anthropology of Eurasia</journal-title><trans-title-group xml:lang="ru"><trans-title>Археология, этнография и антропология Евразии</trans-title></trans-title-group></journal-title-group><issn pub-type="ppub">1563-0110</issn><publisher><publisher-name>IAET SB RAS</publisher-name></publisher></journal-meta><article-meta><article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.17746/1563-0110.2024.52.4.117-124</article-id><article-id custom-type="elpub" pub-id-type="custom">nsc-2021</article-id><article-categories><subj-group subj-group-type="heading"><subject>Research Article</subject></subj-group><subj-group subj-group-type="section-heading" xml:lang="en"><subject>THE METAL AGES AND MEDIEVAL PERIOD</subject></subj-group><subj-group subj-group-type="section-heading" xml:lang="ru"><subject>ЭПОХА ПАЛЕОМЕТАЛЛА</subject></subj-group></article-categories><title-group><article-title>The First Results of Remote Sensing Studies of Mounds with “Mustaches” in Northern Kulunda, Southwestern Siberia</article-title><trans-title-group xml:lang="ru"><trans-title></trans-title></trans-title-group></title-group><contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="author" corresp="yes"><contrib-id contrib-id-type="orcid">https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3712-6585</contrib-id><name-alternatives><name name-style="western" xml:lang="en"><surname>Balkov</surname><given-names>E. V.</given-names></name></name-alternatives><bio xml:lang="en"><p>Leading Researcher</p><p>pr. Akademika Koptyuga 3, Novosibirsk, 630090</p></bio><email xlink:type="simple">BalkovEV@ipgg.sbras.ru</email><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff-1"/></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author" corresp="yes"><contrib-id contrib-id-type="orcid">https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1469-5336</contrib-id><name-alternatives><name name-style="western" xml:lang="en"><surname>Karin</surname><given-names>Y. G.</given-names></name></name-alternatives><bio xml:lang="en"><p>Researcher</p><p>pr. Akademika Koptyuga 3, Novosibirsk, 630090</p></bio><email xlink:type="simple">KarinYG@ipgg.sbras.ru</email><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff-1"/></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author" corresp="yes"><contrib-id contrib-id-type="orcid">https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8376-0344</contrib-id><name-alternatives><name name-style="western" xml:lang="en"><surname>Pozdnyakova</surname><given-names>O. A.</given-names></name></name-alternatives><bio xml:lang="en"><p>Researcher</p><p>pr. Akademika Lavrentieva 17, Novosibirsk, 630090</p></bio><email xlink:type="simple">olka.pozdnyakova@gmail.com</email><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff-2"/></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author" corresp="yes"><contrib-id contrib-id-type="orcid">https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7036-7092</contrib-id><name-alternatives><name name-style="western" xml:lang="en"><surname>Shaparenko</surname><given-names>I. O.</given-names></name></name-alternatives><bio xml:lang="en"><p>Junior Researcher</p><p>pr. Akademika Koptyuga 3, Novosibirsk, 630090</p></bio><email xlink:type="simple">pavelchist@gmail.com</email><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff-1"/></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author" corresp="yes"><contrib-id contrib-id-type="orcid">https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4729-8575</contrib-id><name-alternatives><name name-style="western" xml:lang="en"><surname>Marchenko</surname><given-names>Z. V.</given-names></name></name-alternatives><bio xml:lang="en"><p>Senior Researcher</p><p>pr. Akademika Lavrentieva 17, Novosibirsk, 630090</p></bio><email xlink:type="simple">afrika_77@mail.ru</email><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff-2"/></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author" corresp="yes"><contrib-id contrib-id-type="orcid">https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8367-2272</contrib-id><name-alternatives><name name-style="western" xml:lang="en"><surname>Grishin</surname><given-names>A. E.</given-names></name></name-alternatives><bio xml:lang="en"><p>Senior Researcher</p><p>pr. Akademika Lavrentieva 17, Novosibirsk, 630090</p></bio><email xlink:type="simple">artem-grishin@mail.ru</email><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff-2"/></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author" corresp="yes"><contrib-id contrib-id-type="orcid">https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9925-9658</contrib-id><name-alternatives><name name-style="western" xml:lang="en"><surname>Fadeev</surname><given-names>D. I.</given-names></name></name-alternatives><bio xml:lang="en"><p>Researcher</p><p>pr. Akademika Koptyuga 3, Novosibirsk, 630090</p></bio><email xlink:type="simple">FadeevDI@ipgg.sbras.ru</email><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff-1"/></contrib></contrib-group><aff xml:lang="en" id="aff-1"><institution>Trofimuk Institute of Petroleum Geology and Geophysics, Siberian Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences</institution><country>Russian Federation</country></aff><aff xml:lang="en" id="aff-2"><institution>Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography, Siberian Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences</institution><country>Russian Federation</country></aff><pub-date pub-type="collection"><year>2024</year></pub-date><pub-date pub-type="epub"><day>13</day><month>01</month><year>2025</year></pub-date><volume>52</volume><issue>4</issue><fpage>117</fpage><lpage>124</lpage><permissions><copyright-statement>Copyright &amp;#x00A9; Balkov E.V., Karin Y.G., Pozdnyakova O.A., Shaparenko I.O., Marchenko Z.V., Grishin A.E., Fadeev D.I., 2025</copyright-statement><copyright-year>2025</copyright-year><copyright-holder xml:lang="ru">Balkov E.V., Karin Y.G., Pozdnyakova O.A., Shaparenko I.O., Marchenko Z.V., Grishin A.E., Fadeev D.I.</copyright-holder><copyright-holder xml:lang="en">Balkov E.V., Karin Y.G., Pozdnyakova O.A., Shaparenko I.O., Marchenko Z.V., Grishin A.E., Fadeev D.I.</copyright-holder><license xml:lang="ru" license-type="creative-commons-attribution" xlink:href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/" xlink:type="simple"><license-p>Данная работа распространяется под лицензией Creative Commons Attribution 4.0.</license-p></license><license xml:lang="en" license-type="creative-commons-attribution" xlink:href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/" xlink:type="simple"><license-p>This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.</license-p></license></permissions><self-uri xlink:href="https://journal.archaeology.nsc.ru/jour/article/view/2021">https://journal.archaeology.nsc.ru/jour/article/view/2021</self-uri><abstract><p>In 2019, a group of previously unknown mounds with “mustaches” was discovered in the north of the Kulunda steppe. They are quite unusual: all of the mounds are ground and located on floodplains. In 2023, a set of remote sensing methods (aerial photography, electromagnetic profiling, and electrical resistivity tomography) was used at Karasuk-1 and Troitskoye-1 to assess the design of the mounds and see if additional features were present on their periphery. For this type of structure, geophysical methods were employed for the first time. Maps based on aerial photography data have made it possible to record the relief features of objects in high detail. Troitskoye-1 consists of five rather than four mounds. Using the electrical tomography method, the composition of the mound platforms was shown to be homogeneous. On geoelectric sections, they correspond to conductive areas ca 0.5 m thick. At both sites, the central mounds do not have “walls” on the eastern side. Apparently, no removal of soil was carried out on that side, in order to provide access to the ritual areas from the space enclosed by the “mustaches”. According to the results of aerial photography, at Karasuk-1 cup-shaped depressions were discovered on the surface of the western ends of the “mustaches”. They can be tentatively associated with the design of the mounds. The northern “mustache” is markedly broken. No additional features were identified inside or near the mounds. The results suggest that both complexes were built at the same time and are autonomous.</p></abstract><kwd-group xml:lang="en"><kwd>Mounds with “mustaches”</kwd><kwd>Northern Kulunda</kwd><kwd>archaeological and geophysical research</kwd><kwd>aerial photography</kwd><kwd>electromagnetic profiling</kwd><kwd>electrical resistivity tomography</kwd></kwd-group><funding-group><funding-statement xml:lang="en">Geophysical studies were carried out under R&amp;D Project No. FWZZ-2022-0025 of the Trofi muk Institute of Petroleum Geology and Geophysics SB RAS; archaeological interpretation of geophysical fi ndings was carried out under R&amp;D Project No. FWZG-2022-0006 of the Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography SB RAS. Field works were performed with the material and technical support of OOO KB Elektrometriya</funding-statement></funding-group></article-meta></front><back><ref-list><title>References</title><ref id="cit1"><label>1</label><citation-alternatives><mixed-citation xml:lang="ru">Balkov E.V., Karin Y.G., Pozdnyakova O.A., Fadeev D.I., Shaparenko I.O. 2023 Kompleksirovaniye aerofotosyemki, elektromagnitnogo profi lirovaniya i elektrotomografi i dlya izucheniya drevnikh arkheologicheskikh poseleniy i gorodishch Novosibirskoy oblasti. Geofi zika, No. 1: 26–33.</mixed-citation><mixed-citation xml:lang="en">Balkov E.V., Karin Y.G., Pozdnyakova O.A., Fadeev D.I., Shaparenko I.O. 2023 Kompleksirovaniye aerofotosyemki, elektromagnitnogo profi lirovaniya i elektrotomografi i dlya izucheniya drevnikh arkheologicheskikh poseleniy i gorodishch Novosibirskoy oblasti. 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