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Neolithic Dispersal in Far Northeast Europe: Ways and Chronology

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 July 2016

Victor N Karmanov ,
Natalia E Zaretskaya  and
Evgenia L Lychagina
Victor N Karmanov*
Affiliation:
Institute of Language, Literature and History of Komi Science Center of Ural Division of Russian Academy of Sciences, Kommunisticheskaya st., 26, Syktyvkar 167982, Republic of Komi, Russian Federation
Natalia E Zaretskaya
Affiliation:
Geological Institute of Russian Academy of Sciences, Pyzhevsky per., 7, Moscow 119017, Russia
Evgenia L Lychagina
Affiliation:
Perm State Pedagogical University, Sibirskaya str., 24, Perm' 614990, Russia
*
Corresponding author. Email: vkarman@bk.ru
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Abstract

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By analyzing archaeological evidence and radiocarbon dates, we studied the Neolithization of Far Northeast Europe (Russian Perm' region, Komi Republic, and Nenets autonomous district). Our study shows that this process in the eastern European forest zone was rather ambiguous. Taking into account the periodicity of settling and short duration of residence here, the term “Neolithization” in its traditional sense cannot be applied to some territories in this region. For instance, the emergence of ceramics—the most important feature of Neolithization here—did not affect considerably the way of life of the ancient population, which continued the traditions of the Mesolithic hunter-gatherers well into the Early Neolithic. Such attributes as heat treatment of clay paste and siliceous rocks for changing physical features of natural materials, bifacial knapping, and construction of subterranean dwellings represent the archaeological evidence of Neolithization in the region.

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Radiocarbon , Volume 54 , Issue 3-4 , 2012 , pp. 331 - 338
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Copyright © 2012 by the Arizona Board of Regents on behalf of the University of Arizona 

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