Archaeologists from Kuzbass created a 3D model of a part of the Tepsei archaeological site
Archeologists from Kemerovo State University are discovering the Tepsei website of Minusinsk Basin, located in Krasnoturansky district (Krasnoyarsk region). Their investigation goal is to explain the tradition and background of the internet site, covering in excess of 27 sq. kilometers. The territory involves Mount Tepsei (630 m large) and the river valley below. The web site has previously disclosed numerous archeological artifacts, burial grounds, and ancient villages of the Yenisey lifestyle. The neighborhood rock art ranges from the Stone Age to ethnographic instances and is represented by various petroglyphs on rocks, horizontal stone plates, and Tagar burrows.
The Tepsei cave art to start with attracted the interest of our Office of Archeology in 1980s, when a group of archeologists, led by Dr. B.N Pyatkin, explored the neighborhood petroglyphs. In 1995, Tepsei rock art turned the matter of an worldwide French and Russian system supervised by Yakov Sher and Henry-Paul Frankfor. The crew researched the impact of the artificial lake on the area petroglyphs. Eight several years ago, Kemerovo Point out University returned to Tepsei and resumed the research on a new level: Olga Sovetova, the Director of the Institute of History and International Relations, and her group of archeologists use 3D modeling and UAV drones to review the neighborhood rock art.
In 2018 the team acquired a grant help to catalog the prehistoric rock art of Mount Tepsei employing the two conventional and impressive methods. They used a Garmin GPS device to record just about every floor. By marking each individual person site on Google Maps, the archeologists identified the most significant clusters of petroglyphs and exposed the spots that wanted additional in situ study. The GPS engineering created it doable to determine the approximate boundaries of the Tepsei archaeological web page. A UAV survey of inaccessible mountain regions helped to determine some new rock art clusters. The petroglyphs have been cataloged and copied applying both call and non-speak to procedures, e.g. mica-coated paper, different capturing modes, and so forth.
The graphic sources database of the Tepsei web site is pretty much complete. The researchers have currently copied and cataloged the prehistoric art of the river valley in close proximity to Mount Tepsei and its upper regions, including two ravines, as perfectly as petroglyphs manufactured on burial stones and slabs at the foot of the mountain. Two expeditions took position in July and September of 2020. The archeologists carried out an aerial survey of the terrain, mapped the territory, and explored some difficult-to-arrive at places employing drones. They accomplished 3D products of fifteen rock artwork surfaces.
The researchers labored in cooperation with professionals from the RSSDA laboratory (Moscow). With each other, they accomplished a 3D digital model of one particular of the clusters. This design will show the correct area of every single rock art site, burial stone, or stone slab. The map will also display excavation web-sites. The analysis will determine the exact boundaries of the entire Tepsei cluster and give a much more accurate photo of the historical history of southern Siberia: the gradual adjust of cultures, migration routes, the time when numerous settlements have been set up, the worldview of the peoples that etched the petroglyphs, and so forth. In addition, the historians identified some new rock paintings, like that of a wild horse (approx. the 3rd BC) and Scythian figures of animals made with sensitive engraved strains (the 8th-3rd BC).
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