The Amnya complex (Russian: городище Амня, romanized: gorodishche Amnya) is an archaeological site near the Amnya River in the lower Ob basin of western Siberia, dating to the early Neolithic and Chalcolithic.

Dec 8, 2023 · The fortified settlement of Amnya, situated in Siberia’s Lower Ob’ region, stands as the northernmost Stone Age fort in Eurasia. Researchers, including Professor Henny Piezonka and Dr. Natalia Chairkina from Freie Universität Berlin, conducted extensive fieldwork in 2019, revealing ten house pits encircled by earthen walls and wooden ...

Dec 16, 2023 · The Amnya archaeological sites were officially unearthed from 1987 onwards, but recent radiocarbon dating has found the main pit house at Amnya Site I and its fortifications date back 8,000 years or so.

Nov 30, 2023 · One fort sits on a high spit of land overlooking a bend in the Amnya. In 2019, Piezonka and a team of Russian and German researchers visited the site, days by boat and helicopter from the nearest city. They documented the defensive architecture, a network of deep ditches, banks, and palisades surrounding a cluster of houses.

Dec 19, 2023 · Located along the Amnya River in western Siberia, remains of the Amnya fort include roughly 20 pit-house depressions scattered across the site, which is divided into two sections: Amnya I and...

Dec 8, 2023 · Amnya’s fortresses are more than 1,000 years older than the oldest enclosures and fortifications associated with agricultural communities, found in central Europe, the Aegean and the Levant.

Dec 1, 2023 · Here, the authors present results from the fortified site of Amnya in western Siberia, reporting new radiocarbon dates as the basis for a re-evaluation of the chronology and settlement organisation.

Dec 10, 2023 · Built by hunters-gatherers in Siberia around 8,000 years ago, archaeologists have discovered the world's oldest fortress. Known as The Amnya I and II fortress, historians claim this structure will greatly assist them in understanding how complex hunter-gatherer societies evolved in the Mesolithic period.

Dec 8, 2023 · Archaeologists have uncovered evidence of what may be the world's oldest fortified site in a remote region of Siberia, according to a study. A team of researchers investigated a western Siberia...

Surveys and rescue excavations over the last decades have revealed an array of new sites across the Transurals and Western Siberia that document the pre-pottery Mesolithic and the transition towards the local Neolithic.