The Cultural complexes of the Levshino site near Perm

Abstract

The Levshino site was discovered in 1891 by I.N. Glushkov. The settlement was excavated by A.V. Schmidt in 1925 and N.A. Prokoshev in 1934. The Levshino site was located on the first terrace above the floodplain of the left bank of the Chusovaya River in 3 km from its mouth.The Levshino site is a reference site of the late Neolithic in the Urals. The authors analyzed the materials of the site, which were kept in various museums. The Levshino cultural complexes are as follows: the Mesolithic group of artifacts, the Neolithic comb ware pottery, the Neolithic pottery from the Trans-Urals, the Neolithic pricked ceramics and the complex of early metal ceramics of the Garinskaya culture. Single fragments of pottery are the examples of the Ananyino and Lomovatovo cultures.The Levshino type of pottery is only a later Neolithic comb ware ceramics. It is characterized by such features as: 1) round-bottomed vessels mainly with the cylindrical upper part; 2) necks of the vessels are thinner then the walls, and the rims are often thinner then the necks; 3) some of the vessels have patterns on the inner side of the rims typical for the Garinskaya and the Borskaya cultures; 4) acute-angled print often occurs on the vessels.The main complex of the Levshino site retains its value as a reference type of the material culture of the later stages of the Kama Neolithic culture. The flat-bottomed pricked ceramics pots were connected with the Lower Kama pricked ceramics.The Levshino stage, as one of the final stages in the Kama Neolithic culture’s evolution, is dated back to the second half of the 4th millennium BC. The ceramic complex of the Garinskaya type is referred to a later time.