Integrative Geophysical Studies at the Novaya Kurya-1 Cemetery in the Kulunda Steppe
https://doi.org/10.17746/1563-0110.2021.49.4.069-079
Abstract
We outline the results of prospection studies at the Novaya Kurya-1 cemetery in the south of Western Siberia, using remote sensing methods such as aerial photography, ground-based magnetometry, high-precision aeromagnetic survey, electromagnetic profi ling, and electrotomography. Original techniques were used to construct relative relief maps, and an inversion of data from ground-based magnetic survey at various altitudes was carried out. The fi rst technique reduces the effect of natural relief, and highlights anthropogenic altitudinal anomalies, making the analysis of digital elevation models more effi cient. The second technique is helpful for assessing the thickness and depth of anomalous magnetic bodies or horizons, not only providing planigraphic information but enabling us to evaluate two- and threedimensional geometric properties of the detected objects. As a result of the analyses, at least 14 kurgans were identifi ed at the cemetery, six of which lack salient outward features. Structural details suggest that most of them date to the Early Scythian time (800–400 BC). On the basis of the interpretation of the results of highly effi cient prospection analyses using the UAV platform, offering the possibility of surveying a large area (about 25 ha), the boundaries of the site were determined. Several features were detected. To identify these, further studies are needed.
Keywords
Magnetometry,
aeromagnetic survey,
aerial photography,
electromagnetic profi ling,
electrotomography,
burial mounds
Supporting agencies: Aerial photography, aeromagnetic survey, and electrical survey field works were supported by the Russian Foundation for Basic Research (Project No. 17-29- 04314). Ground-based magnetic survey was supported by joint project of the Russian Foundation for Basic Research and the German Research Foundation, Grant No. 18-09-12067a. Instrumental and methodological developments for electrical and magnetic survey are carried out at the IPGG SB RAS, under the Basic Scientifi c Research Projects No. 0331-2019-0015 and 0331-2019-0012.
About the Authors
O. A. Pozdnyakova
Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography, Siberian Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Pr. Akademika Lavrentieva 17, Novosibirsk, 630090
E. V. Balkov
Trofi muk Institute of Petroleum Geology and Geophysics, Siberian Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Pr. Akademika Koptuga 3, Novosibirsk, 630090
P. G. Dyadkov
Trofi muk Institute of Petroleum Geology and Geophysics, Siberian Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Pr. Akademika Koptuga 3, Novosibirsk, 630090
Z. V. Marchenko
Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography, Siberian Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Pr. Akademika Lavrentieva 17, Novosibirsk, 630090
A. E. Grishin
Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography, Siberian Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Pr. Akademika Lavrentieva 17, Novosibirsk, 630090
N. D. Evmenov
Trofi muk Institute of Petroleum Geology and Geophysics, Siberian Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Pr. Akademika Koptuga 3, Novosibirsk, 630090
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Pozdnyakova O.A., Balkov E.V., Dyadkov P.G., Marchenko Z.V., Grishin A.E., Evmenov N.D. Integrative Geophysical Studies at the Novaya Kurya-1 Cemetery in the Kulunda Steppe. Archaeology, Ethnology & Anthropology of Eurasia. 2021;49(4):69-79. https://doi.org/10.17746/1563-0110.2021.49.4.069-079
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