Fishing in the Late Bronze Age (Based on the Materials of Sites Near the V. Elovka, Tomsk Region)

The article considers materials on the fishing of the population of the Late Bronze Age, who left a complex of sites near the village of Elovka, Tomsk Region. In the excavations of V.I. Matyushchenko 1960–1961 and 1982, fishing tools and ichthyological materials were found. Their analysis allows us to conclude that the ancient population used various methods of catching fish: with hooks, nets, possibly harpoons, and fixed and removable traps. Clay and stone sinkers for nets are most widely represented. The presence of a sinker with a through hole suggests the use of bottom nets. Fishing grounds were reservoirs near the settlement: sands along the banks of the Siman duct, possibly the mouths of its small left tributaries. Ancient fishermen mainly hunted ide, nelma, and pike. Sturgeon, muksun were not the main object of fishing. The roach was not an object of catching, and was, most likely, a by-catch. The fish was harvested, since there are about a lot of places of accumulation of ichthyological materials, and one pit.