Планировка поселений и домостроительство населения скифского времени в бассейне Сейма
Settlement planning and house-building of Scythian time population in the Seym river basin

Summary/Abstract: This article is dedicated to the study of the settlement planning and house-building traditions of Scythian time sites in the Seym river basin. The planning system of hillforts in Seym region is compared to the rest of the territory of forest-steppe and forest regions. Several alternative interpretations of the function of Kuzina Gora hillfort are proposed. The construction of Scythian time pit-houses is considered, the metric characteristics of the buildings are described. Special attention is paid to the problem of the distribution of round pit-houses, there are suggestions of the reasons for their occurrence in the forest-steppe. At the end of the article, alternative reconstruction of the appearance of the pit-houses is proposed.

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