Paramėlio 2-osios senovės gyvenvietės tyrimai

LTKaip ir ankstesniais metais taip ir šį sezoną archeologiniai tyrimai vykdyti pasieniečių sužalotose gyvenvietės vietose. 2002–2009 m. autoriaus pastangomis ir pagal KPD programą buvo ištirta nemaža dalis suniokotos teritorijos (apie 600 m2 dydžio plotas) palei pasieniečių iškastus eroduojančius griovius. Nors ištirtas nemažas senovės gyvenvietės plotas, tačiau tyrimai vykdyti labai suardytose teritorijose. Todėl tikslesnių apibendrinimų kol kas padaryti nėra galimybių. 2009 m. archeologiniai tyrimai vykdyti R (Paramelis-2a) ir P (Paramelis-2b) gyvenvietės teritorijos dalyje, ties intensyviai eroduojančių griovių vietomis. Iš viso tyrimų metu ištirtas 50 m2 dydžio plotas. Kadangi šis paminklų kompleksas pasižymi sudėtinga stratigrafija ir planigrafija, tyrimų metu radinių fiksacijai skirtas ypatingas dėmesys [p. 22].

ENIn 2009 the investigation of the Paramėlis 2nd old settlement (South Lithuania, Varėna District), which was begun in 2002, was continued. In the investigated E and SW parts of the settlement, where border guards from both sides had dug a ditch running along the line demarcating the state border, area of 50 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 15–40 cm thick at that location. Sterile soil, yellowish – whitish aeolian sand, was reached at a depth of approximately 40–70 cm throughout this part of the trench. Over 800 flint finds were discovered in the excavated trenches. The bulk of the flint inventory consisted of various sizes of flakes and chips 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. A large number of various artefacts were also found: tanged and flake points and microliths (insert, lancets, trapezes) for use as hunting and fishing implements, as well as tools: scrapers, burins, awls / borers, knives, special purpose artefacts, harvesting artefacts, undetermined artefact fragments, etc. In addition, several stone finds were also discovered.About 110 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. 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 (?), Neolithic Nemunas or Narva and early Bronze Age Iwno–Trzciniec culture.