COMPLEX OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL SITES NEAR THE NOVOZYKOVO VILLAGE IN THE KRASNOGORSKY DISTRICT
The article publishes the results of exploration in the Krasnogorsky District of the Altai Territory. Despite the fact that the discovered sites have often been mentioned in various scientific publications, their thorough description with detailed reference to the ground and planigraphic characteristics are presented for the first time. They are settlements Novozykovo-1, Novozykovo-2, Novozykovo-3, Novo-zykovo-4, Novozykovo-5. In addition to the visual plans the article presents materials obtained from those sites as a result of trenching, it identifies their cultural and chronological affiliation, describes the stratigraphic situation at each site. The materials obtained from the settlements date back to the Paleolithic era (?), the Early Iron Age, Early Middle Ages and represent the Bystryanskaya and Mayminskaya archaeological culture. In settlement Novozykovo-1 a construction embedded in the mainland was found. The material is introduced into scientific circulation for the first time.