Paramėlio 2-osios senovės gyvenvietės tyrimai

LT2007 m. tęsti Paramėlio 2-osios senovės gyvenvietės (A1551; Varėnos r., Kaniavos sen.) tyrimai (žr. ATL 2002 metais, V., 2005, p. 21–23; ATL 2003 metais, V., 2005, p. 22–24; ATL 2004 metais, V., 200, p. 22–24). Tyrimai vykdyti gyvenvietės PR pakraštyje (Paramėlis 2b), kur abipus pasieniečių iškasto griovio, besidriekiančio išilgai valstybinės sienos demarkacinės linijos, buvo ištirtos dvi perkasos, iš viso 70 m2 dydžio plotas. Dalį tyrimų finansavo LAD pagal kultūros vertybių archeologinių vertingųjų savybių pobūdžio atskleidimo programą. Iš viso per 4 tyrimų sezonus šioje gyvenvietėje jau ištirtas beveik 320 m2 dydžio plotas, identifikuotos kelios įgilintų pastatų vietos, surasta nemažai titnago ir keramikos dirbinių. Nors ištirtas nemažas senovės gyvenvietės plotas, tačiau tyrimai vykdyti labai suardytose teritorijose. Todėl tikslesnių apibendrinimų kol kas padaryti negalima. [...] [p. 41].

ENIn 2007 the investigation of the Paramėlis 2nd old settlement (South Lithuania, Varėna District), which was begun in 2002, was continued. In the investigated SE part of the settlement (Paramėlis 2b), where border guards from both sides had dug a ditch running along the line demarcating the state border, 2 trenches (a total area of 70 m2 ) were excavated. The following stratigraphy was observed in the trenches: on top was sod, then dark grey forest soil up to 20–30 cm thick, and below that yellowish–grey brown sand, the cultural horizon from the settlement, which was 10– 50 cm thick at that location. Sterile soil, yellowish–whitish aeolian sand, was reached at a depth of approximately 40–80 cm throughout this part of the trench. Over 1000 flint finds were discovered in the excavated trenches. The bulk of the flint inventory consisted of various sizes of flakes and chips (about 82 %) while blades and blade fragments comprised only about 14 %. On the basis of the forms of the discovered cores and the preforms knapped from them, it is possible to state that both double-platform (prismatic) cores and single-platform (conical, handle) cores were used at the settlement. It is possible to ascribe about fifty finds to the tool category: the tanged arrowheads and various types of microliths are ascribable to the category of hunting tools while the scrapers, burins, knives, drills/awls, special purpose artefacts, fragments of undetermined artefacts, etc. are ascribable to work tools. The production waste from microburins and microlith blades (the distal–proximal ends of the blades) should be assigned to secondary processing waste. Several stone finds: various sizes of flakes and cobbles with partially polished surfaces, were discovered in the excavated trenches.Several small sherds of hand built pottery were also discovered during the excavation. The majority of them were discovered in the bottom part of the grey forest soil. The pottery had with thin and medium thick walls with fine grained granite and sand admixtures in the clay mass. The surviving surfaces of the sherds are generally smooth, brown–reddish in colour, and undecorated. Tens of small calcine bones, the bulk of which lay in the cultural layer from the Stone Age settlement, were also discovered. The people at this settlement lived through almost the entire Stone Age and the beginning of the early Bronze Age (9th – early 2nd millennium BC). This is an especially long prehistoric period and so it is particulary difficult and complicated to distinguish the separate smaller episodes of its habitation. The majority of the finds discovered during the excavation season date to the Late Paleolithic– Neolithic period and should be assigned to the Swiderian, Kunda (?), and Neolithic Nemunas or Narva cultures.