Gorbunovo Peat Bog

a peat bog at the population center of Gorbunovo, near Nizhnii Tagil (Sverdlovsk Oblast, RSFSR), where the remains of settlements from eight different epochs in the Neolithic and the Bronze Age (third millennium B.C. to the ninth and tenth centuries B.C.) were discovered in 1908 and investigated in 1926–39, 1948–49, and 1963. Parts of dwellings were preserved in the form of wooden floors, on which numerous domestic objects were found: fragments of earthenware, wooden and stone implements, floats and weights for nets, flint arrowheads, harpoons made of bone, and hoe heads made of antlers. Also found were wonderful articles made of wood, such as vessels in the shape of elks and waterfowl, idols, paddles, and a boomerang. The finds indicate that the chief occupations of the populations were fishing, hunting, and possibly farming.