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Since 2022, in Salym village (Nefteyugansk district of KhMAO-Yugra), on the territory of the Neolithic experimental site of the Sacred Cedar Grove Museum Complex, Yugra archaeologists, together with schoolchildren and students from all over Russia, have been reconstructing the Stone Age fortress of Kayukovo 2. In 2020, the first experiment took place at the area near the Sorovskiye Lakes. In 2022, we recreated one building and a part of the defensive fortification system in Salym. Construction continued in 2023. We set off for the third experimental expedition. Salym high school students and volunteers from St. Petersburg took part in investigations. We made an attempt to reproduce the full technological cycle of Stone Age house-building and test the hypotheses put forward on the basis of Kayukovo 2 investigations and previous reconstructions. The goal of a new season was to build the largest dwelling in the middle with an area of six by six meters and to solve related technological problems. One of them was to check the possibility of connecting the defensive wall with trees growing nearby. The hypothesis that the ancient architects could build this settlement this way appeared because of the peculiar planography of the residential complex of the Kayukovo archaeological culture: the buildings in the center were perfectly geometrically correct, but the outer wall of the fortress had irregular outlines.
