Archaeological research in the Ivanovo region, located in the basins of the Yaselda, Pina and Neslukha rivers, has been carried out since the 1940s. Famous Belarusian archaeologists Vladimir Isaenko and Elena Kalechits spent a lot of time in these areas on expeditions . The artifacts they found are kept in various museum institutions in the country, including the museum established ten years ago in the village of Motol, Ivanovo district. Today in the Ivanovo region a new stage of research is geological. It is necessary to clarify and refine the chronology of the beginning of the colonization of Western Polesia, says the leader of the expedition, a researcher at the Department of Archeology of the Primitive Society of the Institute of History of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus Alexander Vashanov:
- This territory was covered by the Dnieper Glacier, which began to leave about 250,000 years ago. All subsequent glaciers – Sozhsky and Poozersky – did not reach here. It can be concluded that the age of the monument is at least 200,000 years. We worked here last year, now with the participation of Russian colleagues, we make geological sections, take samples, and after analysis, further excavations are planned in the future.
During the complex research of the Ogovo-1 site in the summer of last year and this spring, artifacts from antiquity were discovered: flint tools with double-sided processing, choppers, numerous forms of debitage, forms in scraper-shaped and pit-shaped.
By the way, the history of cooperation between Belarusian archaeologists and Russian archaeologists in the Belarusian region of Ivanovo did not begin today or yesterday. Ten years ago, a local Ivanovo historian, Yuri Seleznev, found flint artifacts near the village of Ogovo and sent Alexander to a senior researcher at the Institute of Material Culture History in St. Petersburg from the Russian Academy of Sciences Another photo of flint found in the Ogovo quarries. In 2017, the people of Petersburg participated in an expedition with scientists from Minsk, examined the collection of finds and selected samples for further research. In 2018, a conference was held in St. Petersburg with the participation of Belarusian scientists, during which it was said that it is necessary to continue scientific activities in the careers of Og… Let it be said in By the way, this year archaeological research will take place in almost all regions of Belarus.
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