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FEATURES OF ARCHAEOLOGY OF TAIGA-ALAS ZONE OF CENTRAL YAKUTIA
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The Lena-Amga interfluve of Central Yakutia is characterized by taiga-alas landscape. A feature of this area is a plain covered mainly larch taiga, the uniformity of which the thermokarst basins of alases violate. Alas represent a rounded or elongated hollow formed by years of soil defrosts, the bottom of which is covered by extremely nutritious for cattle meadow grass. The vegetation of alas represents meadow and praire system. For now days, Alas are the most important places for agriculture. A large number of old buildings and burials of the Yakuts, who was the cattle and horse breeders, are preserved in alases. Archaeological research here was conducted mainly on the study of the Yakut burials of XVII-XVIII centuries. Therefore, opinion about settling of alases by the ancestors of the Yakuts was formed in archaeology. Special works to find the remnants of settlements and burials of the stone age and the epoch of paleometals on the sides of alases was not conducted until the early 2000-s. At the moment, because of archaeological research, a large number of monuments dating from the Neolithic period and the epoch of paleometals was founded that shows the early development of alas population of the initial stages of the Neolithic. Archaeological investigations of thermokarst depressions continues, given the Pleistocene origin of a number of alases, there are prospects for the discovery of sites dating from the Paleolithic.
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