The Spread of the Neolithic in the South East European Plain: Radiocarbon Chronology, Subsistence, and Environment
Year: 2009
Type: article
Abstract: Newly available radiocarbon dates show the early signs of pottery-making in the North Caspian area, the Middle-Lower Volga, and the Lower Don at 8–7 kyr cal BC. Stable settlements, as indicated by “coeval subsamples,” are recognized in the Middle-Lower Volga (Yelshanian) at 6.8 kyr cal BC and the Caspian Lowland at about 6 kyr cal BC. The ages of the Strumel-Gostyatin, Surskian, and Bug-Dniesterian sites are in the range of 6.6–4.5 kyr BC, overlapping with early farming entities (Starčevo-Körös-Criş and Linear Pottery), whose influence is perceptible in archaeological materials. Likewise, the14C-dated pollen data show that the spread of early pottery-making coincided with increased precipitation throughout the forest-steppe area.
Source: Radiocarbon
Institutions: Newcastle University, Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Institute of Archeology, Samara State University of Social Sciences and Education, The Institute of Environmental Geochemistry of National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Russian Academy of Sciences, Institute of History of Material Culture, Institute of Limnology of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Language: English
Subfield: Archeology
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W2102965237