scholarly journals EARLY NEOLITHIC POTTERY COMPLEX OF THE UPPER VOLGA CULTURE FROM SITE ZAMOSTJE 2: TYPOLOGICAL COMPOSITION AND CHRONOLOGICAL FRAMES

2014 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
pp. 122-136
Author(s):  
Vladimir Mikhailovich Lozovski ◽  
Olga Vladimirovna Lozovskaya ◽  
Ganna Ivanovna Zaitceva ◽  
Göran Possnert ◽  
Marianna Alexeevna Kulkova
Keyword(s):  
Radiocarbon Dating ◽  
Early Neolithic ◽  
Upper Volga ◽  
Stage Of Development ◽  
Small Series ◽  
Neolithic Pottery

The paper describes the complex of Early Neolithic Upper Volga culture pottery from site Zamostje 2. The analysis revealed that the vast majority of ceramics found during the excavation of site belong to the first stage of development of the Upper Volga culture - ceramics without ornaments and fragments with ornaments comprised of small dots and notches. Conducted extensive radiocarbon dating by different kinds of materials made it possible to determine the time of existence of the Upper Volga culture on the site Zamostje 2 within the 6850 - 6200 BP. Nevertheless, a small series of dates obtained from crust on fragments, demonstrates a more ancient age as compared with the main array of dates. The nature of such phenomenon currently not entirely clear .

scholarly journals ABSOLUTE CHRONOLOGY OF UPPER VOLGA-TYPE POTTERY: MORE EVIDENCE FROM ZAMOSTJE 2

2015 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
pp. 113-121
Author(s):  
John Meadows ◽  
Vladimir Mihailovich Losovski ◽  
Olga Vladimirovna Lozovskaya ◽  
Sofya Sergeevna Chirkova ◽  
Oliver Craig ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Early Neolithic ◽  
Stratigraphic Sequence ◽  
Considerable Uncertainty ◽  
Upper Volga ◽  
The Absolute ◽  
Early Pottery ◽  
Late Mesolithic ◽  
Neolithic Pottery

Zamostje 2, on the Dubna River, c.100km north of Moscow, appears to offer an ideal opportunity to understand the relative and absolute chronology of Upper Volga Early Neolithic pottery. More than 100 radiocarbon (14C) dates are available from a stratigraphic sequence which spans from the Late Mesolithic to the Middle Neolithic. All typological stages are represented among over 18,000 sherds of Early Neolithic pottery, and many of these sherds bear deposits of carbonised food remains (food-crusts), which can be dated directly by 14C; more than 30 food-crusts have been dated directly. Nevertheless, there remains considerable uncertainty about the date range of Upper Volga pottery at Zamostje 2, and many of the issues raised are relevant to dating early pottery at other sites. Moreover, the absolute chronology of Upper Volga pottery must have some bearing on the interpretation of 14C dates for pottery from adjoining regions. In this paper, we discuss alternative interpretations of the Zamostje 2 evidence.

scholarly journals Multidisciplinary Researches of Nebyshino 1 Site at the Upper Reaches of the Berezina River in 2018–2019

2021 ◽  
pp. 120-140
Author(s):  
Igor Yаzepenka ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Radiocarbon Dating ◽  
Study Analysis ◽  
Multidisciplinary Research ◽  
Early Neolithic ◽  
Atlantic Period ◽  
Archaeological Materials ◽  
The Absolute ◽  
Bone Remains ◽  
Upper Boundary ◽  
Neolithic Pottery

Comprehensive multidisciplinary research was held in 2018–2019 at Nebyshino 1 site located in the Dokshitsky district, Vitebsk region, Belarus. The analysis archaeological materials obtained during excavations made along the mineral edge of the butte and in the peaty part of the settlement were supplemented by archaeobotanical study, analysis of the osteological materials, and radiocarbon dating of wood and bone remains from the cultural horizon. The analysis of Nebyshino 1 flint artifacts and synchronization with the dating of the osteological samples made it possible to consider the preboreal and boreal periods as the main stages in the functioning of the settlement. The flint collection of Nebyshino 1 displays similarities with the flint inventory of the Zamosh’e settlement (Verkhnedvinski district, Vitebsk region), located in the basin of the Western Dvina. The cultural attribution of the archaeological materials of Nebyshino 1 presupposes that the site is related to the Kunda culture. At present time the absolute chronology of Nebyshino 1 site can be considered within the framework of the Preboreal — Atlanticum, since the lower chronological boundary (the second half of the Alleroid — Late Dryas) requires archaeological and palynological confirmation. The upper boundary of the settlement is determined by two dates corresponding to the second half of the Atlantic period, and by the presence in the cultural horizon a small number of fragments of Early Neolithic pottery of the Narva culture.

scholarly journals The First Neolithic Occupation of La Cova del Randero (Pedreguer, Alicante, Spain)

2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 1492-1505
Author(s):  
Consuelo Roca de Togores Muñoz ◽  
Laura M. Sirvent Cañada ◽  
Silvia Martínez Amorós ◽  
Olga Gómez Pérez ◽  
Virginia Barciela González ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Radiocarbon Dating ◽  
Ovis Aries ◽  
Upper Palaeolithic ◽  
Early Neolithic ◽  
Specific Nature ◽  
Environmental Characteristics ◽  
Farming Communities ◽  
Multidisciplinary Study ◽  
Pastoral Communities ◽  
Mountain Environment

Abstract The excavations at “Cova del Randero” (Pedreguer, Alicante, Spain) began in 2007 within the programme of archaeological interventions of the Archaeological Museum of Alicante. The cavity, located in one of the valleys that connect the coast with the inland mountains, presents a wide sequence of occupations that begins in the Upper Palaeolithic and continues throughout the different phases of the Neolithic. The results of a multidisciplinary study, carried out in an archaeological context associated with the first Neolithic presence of the cavity, are presented here. This occupation is defined by a unique combustion structure to which a set of artefacts and biofacts are linked. This archaeological context, probably of a specific nature, is related to the first agro-pastoral communities settled in the area. The fireplace is well defined stratigraphically and sedimentologically because of its reddish soil, which corresponds to hunter-gatherer occupation levels of the cavity, and under the greyish sediments that characterise the use of the cave as a fold during the Middle Neolithic. This occupation event was dated both by the associated materials, among which a fragment of cardial ceramic was found, and by radiocarbon dating of a metacarpus of Ovis aries around 5075–4910 cal BC (epicardial Early Neolithic). This data allows us to link the occupation of the cavity at this time with pastoral activity in a medium mountain environment. However, it also allows us to infer the environmental characteristics in which the first farming communities of the mountains of Alicante were developed.

Excavations at South Cadbury Castle, 1969: A Summary Report

1970 ◽  
Vol 50 (1) ◽  
pp. 14-25 ◽  
Author(s):  
Leslie Alcock
Keyword(s):  
Iron Age ◽  
Summary Report ◽  
Early Neolithic ◽  
Late Neolithic ◽  
The Moment ◽  
Neolithic Pottery

SummaryContinued excavations at South Cadbury in July-August 1969 failed to confirm the Early Neolithic enclosed settlement hinted at in 1968, but added Late Neolithic pottery to the known cultural sequence. For the Iron Age, particular interest attaches to evidence for stake-built round houses; to a rich collection of iron and bronze arms and armour perhaps from a workshop; and to a rectangular shrine with animal sacrifices. The moment of the Roman Conquest is represented by a field oven with military bronzes. In the fifth-sixth centuries A.D. the plan of a timber hall was traced, and it was shown that timber and reused Roman masonry had played a large part in the rampart and gateway.

scholarly journals The Neolithic Site of Serra Cicora: Results of the AMS Radiocarbon Dating

Radiocarbon ◽  
2005 ◽  
Vol 47 (2) ◽  
pp. 207-210 ◽  
Author(s):  
G Quarta ◽  
M D'Elia ◽  
E Ingravallo ◽  
I Tiberi ◽  
L Calcagnile
Keyword(s):  
Mass Spectrometry ◽  
Radiocarbon Dating ◽  
Southern Italy ◽  
Early Neolithic ◽  
Human Occupation ◽  
Late Neolithic ◽  
Ams Radiocarbon Dating ◽  
Neolithic Site ◽  
New Information ◽  
Definition Of

Bone and charcoal samples from the Neolithic site of Serra Cicora in the Salento Peninsula (southern Italy) have been dated by accelerator mass spectrometry (AMS). Measurements appear to support other archaeological evidence and have shown that 2 distinct phases of human occupation of the site can be identified: the first occupation in the Early Neolithic and a second occupation in the Middle-Late Neolithic. The results provide new information and are a fundamental contribution to the definition of the absolute chronology of the Middle-Late Neolithic in this part of Europe.

scholarly journals Early Neolithic pottery of Western Belarus: current state of research and its perspectives

2017 ◽  
Vol 6 (4) ◽  
pp. 110-116
Author(s):  
Aleh Yurjevich Tkachou
Keyword(s):  
Local Development ◽  
Left Bank ◽  
Early Neolithic ◽  
Distinctive Features ◽  
The North ◽  
Current State ◽  
Local Variant ◽  
North Eastern ◽  
State Of Research ◽  
Neolithic Pottery

The paper discusses the Early Neolithic pottery from the Western Belarus, pottery of Dubičiai type. The set of its most distinctive features includes organic temper in clay mass, a belt of deep round pits under a rim edge, strokes by round stick (hoofs), slantwise thin grooved lines or slantwise net ornament of such lines. Hypotheses on the origin of Dubičiai type pottery are under discussion as well. According to many scholars, the area of occurrence of Dubičiai type pottery includes Belarusian part of the River Neman region (except the River Viliya basin), the left-bank of the upper Prypiat River basin, the southern Lithuania, the part of the north-eastern Poland, and the northern part of Volhynia. At the same time D.Ya. Telegin, E.N. Titova, G.V. Okhrimenko distinguish the Volhynian culture in the region of the same name. It has many traits analogous to the Prypiat-Neman culture. The scale of differences between the Early Neolithic pottery from Western Polesia and Volhynia and Dubičiai type pottery from the River Neman region allows considering the Volhynian culture as not a separate culture but as a local variant of the Neman culture. Sokołwek type pottery has been discovered at the sites in Podlasie and in Belarusian part of the River Bug region. It is analogous to Dubičiai type pottery by morphology and ornamentation but has less of organic temper in clay mass. Most probably, it is a result of local development of the Early Neolithic traditions in the western part of Prypiat-Neman culture area.

scholarly journals A LONG PROCESS TOWARDS AGRICULTURE IN THE MIDDLE YELLOW RIVER VALLEY, CHINA: EVIDENCE FROM MACRO- AND MICRO-BOTANICAL REMAINS

2015 ◽  
Vol 35 ◽  
pp. 3 ◽  
Author(s):  
Li Liu
Keyword(s):  
Yellow River ◽  
River Valley ◽  
Upper Paleolithic ◽  
Early Neolithic ◽  
Significant Information ◽  
Yellow River Valley ◽  
Stage Of Development ◽  
River Region ◽  
Grinding Stones ◽  
Botanical Remains

<p class="1Abstract">Macro- and micro-botanical remains dating from the Upper Paleolithic through early Neolithic periods in North China have provided significant information for reconstructing the changing subsistence patterns as human groups evolved from mobile hunting-gathering societies to sedentary farming communities. Starch analysis on grinding stones, in particular, has revealed much new data that supplement the inventory of carbonized remains recovered by flotation methods. This paper reviews some recent research projects which have documented a long tradition of processing various plants with grinding stones in the Middle Yellow River valley, including tubers, beans, nuts, and cereals. Exploitation of wild millet can be traced back to 23,000-19,500 cal. BP, more than 10,000 years before its domestication. Several species of tuber, acorn, and wild grasses made up significant proportions of staple food during the early Neolithic, when millet domestication was already underway. These new data help us to better understand the extended transitional process to agriculture in the Middle Yellow River region. Archaeobotany is in an early stage of development in China; it is important to employ an interdisciplinary approach for a more complete documentation of plant use in the past and a better understanding of subsistence practices then.</p>

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