Archaeologists from Kuzbass created a 3D model of a part of the Tepsei archaeological site

Cortez Deacetis

Archeologists from Kemerovo Point out University are checking out the Tepsei site of Minusinsk Basin, located in Krasnoturansky district (Krasnoyarsk area). Their study objective is to describe the culture and historical past of the web page, covering over 27 sq. kilometers. The territory contains Mount Tepsei (630 m higher) and the river valley beneath. The website has previously uncovered many archeological artifacts, burial grounds, and ancient villages of the Yenisey tradition. The regional rock art ranges from the Stone Age to ethnographic moments and is represented by many petroglyphs on rocks, horizontal stone plates, and Tagar burrows.

The Tepsei cave artwork very first captivated the interest of our Section of Archeology in 1980s, when a workforce of archeologists, led by Dr. B.N Pyatkin, explored the community petroglyphs. In 1995, Tepsei rock art became the subject of an intercontinental French and Russian program supervised by Yakov Sher and Henry-Paul Frankfor. The workforce studied the impact of the artificial lake on the area petroglyphs. 8 many years in the past, Kemerovo Condition University returned to Tepsei and resumed the analysis on a new degree: Olga Sovetova, the Director of the Institute of History and Global Relations, and her team of archeologists use 3D modeling and UAV drones to review the community rock artwork.

In 2018 the crew attained a grant guidance to catalog the prehistoric rock artwork of Mount Tepsei using both of those regular and revolutionary approaches. They utilized a Garmin GPS device to report each individual area. By marking every specific web site on Google Maps, the archeologists recognized the premier clusters of petroglyphs and disclosed the areas that needed added in situ study. The GPS technological know-how produced it probable to define the approximate boundaries of the Tepsei archaeological site. A UAV survey of inaccessible mountain locations served to discover some new rock artwork clusters. The petroglyphs ended up cataloged and copied using each get in touch with and non-make contact with approaches, e.g. mica-coated paper, different taking pictures modes, etc.

The graphic sources databases of the Tepsei website is just about entire. The experts have currently copied and cataloged the prehistoric artwork of the river valley around Mount Tepsei and its upper spots, like two ravines, as effectively as petroglyphs created on burial stones and slabs at the foot of the mountain. Two expeditions took area in July and September of 2020. The archeologists done an aerial survey of the terrain, mapped the territory, and explored some difficult-to-arrive at locations utilizing drones. They finished 3D versions of fifteen rock artwork surfaces.

The scientists worked in cooperation with professionals from the RSSDA laboratory (Moscow). Collectively, they completed a 3D virtual model of a person of the clusters. This design will display the precise site of just about every rock artwork web page, burial stone, or stone slab. The map will also exhibit excavation internet sites. The investigation will define the specific boundaries of the total Tepsei cluster and give a extra accurate photo of the ancient background of southern Siberia: the gradual alter of cultures, migration routes, the time when many settlements had been established up, the worldview of the peoples that etched the petroglyphs, and so forth. In addition, the historians observed some new rock paintings, like that of a wild horse (approx. the 3rd BC) and Scythian figures of animals produced with delicate engraved strains (the 8th-3rd BC).&#13

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