Cartographic And Relief Analysis of the Location of the Mounds of the Lower Don
Journal: Teoriya i praktika arkheologicheskikh issledovaniy
Year: 2021

The regularities of the location of steppe mounds are currently poorly understood. The study is based on the inventory of the objects of the archaeological heritage of the Rostov region in the 1990s and 2008–2020. The presented developments were verified and refined by the excavations of mounds: floodplain, terraced, terraced-cape, slope, watershed. Five levels of analysis of the position of the mounds are proposed. The basic techniques of mound constructing are described, and the findings of th