2016/12/30 by Alexander Vybornov · 4 citations
Arts and Humanities · Earth and Planetary Sciences · #Ancient and Medieval Archaeology Studies #Ancient history #Archaeology #Archaeology and ancient environmental studies #Biology #Domestication #Ecology #Feature (linguistics) #Geography #Geology #Group (periodic table) #History #Marine and environmental studies #Paleontology #Pottery #Structural basin #Volga region
paper · pdf · doi:10.4312/dp.43.7
published in Documenta Praehistorica 43, 161-166 (Ljubljana University Press, Faculty of Arts)
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In this paper, two groups of ancient sites located in the Lower Volga River basin are analysed. The first group is linked to the emergence of the oldest pottery in this region, which is one of the most ancient in Europe. The presence of this feature of the ‘Neolithic package’ can be dated to the middle of the 7th millenium BC. A production economy is a particular feature of the second group of sites, which can be dated to the end of the 6th millenium BC. This is one of the earliest pieces of evidence of the existence of domesticated species in Eastern Europe. These two groups of sites show the initial stages of two Neolithisation models in the Lower Volga basin.