ARCHAEOLOGICAL INVESTIGATION IN THE STEPPE ALTAI IN 2015
An article introduces the new data for excavation of Burla III settlement of the Late Bronze Age in 2015 into scientific use. For the whole period of the excavation (2013 - 2015), authors completely or partly investigated four constructions of living-household function at the territory of township that allowed to move to a interpretative level. It has been established that the type of construction used by ancient builders is widely presented at the sites of Late Bronze Age. The traditions of house building find the extensive association with range of Late Bronze Age synchronous site from the cross-border regions (Irmen, Late Irmen constructions of the Novosibirsk Ob Region and Baraba, and Sargarino-Alekseevo construction of Kazakhstan). It can be concluded that Burla III settlement is steady state township with developed architectural and planned structure. We indicate that specificity of architectural organization demonstrates the connections with southwest, apart from series of bronzes, stone and pottery items, directly associated with Late Bronze age complexes of Central Asia and Kazakhstan. The core of ceramic collection is vessels, made on pottery wheel. Besides the living space, we excavated the production area at the site and, subsequently, educed the complex, associated with pottery production. It is illustrated by the findings of clay moulding compounds, ceramic slag, heating construction for the baking of pottery vessels, made on the pottery wheel. In general, these data among others underline the fact that Burla III settlement show the stable direction of connections with agricultural people of Central Asia in the Late Bronze Age.