scholarly journals The ratio of the Neolithic and Eneolithic complexes of the forest-steppe Volga region according to radiocarbon dating

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 229-239
Author(s):  
Anatoly Vladimirovich Somov ◽  
Anton Aleksandrovich Shalapinin
Keyword(s):  
Radiocarbon Dating ◽  
Volga Region ◽  
Forest Steppe ◽  
Internal Edge ◽  
Late Neolithic ◽  
Radiocarbon Dates ◽  
Neolithic Culture ◽  
Genetic Continuity ◽  
The Absolute

The following paper provides a database of radiocarbon dating, which was obtained from the Srednevolzhskaya archaeological culture of the developed and late Neolithic, as well as on the Eneolithic materials of the forest-steppe Volga region. The key issue is the chronological ratio of the melon complexes, which is considered through the construction of graphs of the sums of calibrated radiocarbon dates. Verification of previously obtained definitions was carried out with the ratio of the absolute chronology of adjacent regions. As a result of definitions study for C14, the range of the Srednevolzhskaya Neolithic culture and the Eneolithic complexes coexistence was revealed, which begins with 5050 BC with a probability of 68,2% or 5250 BC with a probability of 95,4% and ends with 3900 BC (68,2%) or 4000 BC (95,4%). The results of radiocarbon dating confirm the genetic continuity between the Neolithic and Eneolithic complexes of the forest-steppe Volga region. In the light of data on the absolute chronology, the assumption of continuity between the Neolithic and Eneolithic can be extended to the basin of the Sok River, where there is a closure of a chronological range of comb Neolithic complexes and aneolithic materials of the Chekalinskiy type. The chronological interval of the late Neolithic ceramics partially coincides with the time of the existence of Tokskiy materials, as well as with the Gundorovskiy type and with an internal edge ceramics.

scholarly journals Novoilyinskaya culture sites of the Lower Kama region: current state of the research

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 186-199
Author(s):  
Viktor Vladimirovich Morozov
Keyword(s):  
Forest Steppe ◽  
Copper Age ◽  
Stone Age ◽  
Late Neolithic ◽  
Radiocarbon Dates ◽  
Neolithic Culture ◽  
Current State ◽  
Small Series ◽  
Middle Volga ◽  
Clear Idea

The paper deals with the analysis of the Novoilyinskaya culture sites existed in the Lower Kama region between the Kama Neolithic culture collapse and the Copper Age cultures with porous (shell tempered) ceramics appearance. The analysis of the ceramic complex of the Novoilyinskaya culture shows its similarity with the comb ornamented pottery of the Kama Neolithic culture according to a number of indicators. A lack of clear data on stratigraphy and spatial distribution of finds as well as a small series of absolute dates do not give a clear idea of the formation time and the development of the Novoilyinskaya culture. Currently available data show that the Samara collar (Ivanovskaya) traditions disappeared until the last quarter of the 5th Millennium cal BC. Specific ceramics of the Neolithic-type shape is formed in the Lower Kama region. At the same time the Novoilyinskaya culture ceramics of the Ik and Belaya Rivers interfluve has some features which are the reminiscences of the Levshinskaya stage which are not characteristic for the Middle and Upper Kama region. These features are: thickening on the inner side of the rim; rows of pits and bulges (formed by pits imprinted from the inner side) under the rim; closed forms of the pots and an ornamentation - stepping comb impressions. The proximity of the ceramic complexes of the Novoilyinskaya culture sites to the Late Neolithic ceramics of the Kama culture as well as the radiocarbon dates and the absence of the metalworking evidences prove the functioning of the Novoilyinskaya culture sites of the Lower Kama region during the border of the Stone Age and the period of Early Metals. Another important question is - which southern components took part in the formation of the Novoilyinskaya type or influenced it. Researchers of the forest-steppe Copper Age cultures supposed that in the process of forest Copper Age cultures formation - the Garin and Bor cultures as well as the Middle Volga variant of the Volosovo culture - the Tok and even Altata elements took part. In our opinion, the influence of the Tok traditions is already clearly visible on the Novoilyinskaya culture ceramics. This conclusion is supported by the ⁴C dates which established the synchronicity of the Tok and Novoilyinskaya sites.

scholarly journals ORLOVKA CULTURE IN THE LIGHT OF NEW DATA ON THE CHRONOLOGY OF THE NEOLITHIC THE STEPPE VOLGA REGION

2014 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
pp. 215-220
Author(s):  
Aleksandr Ivanovich Yudin
Keyword(s):  
Volga Region ◽  
Late Neolithic ◽  
Volga River ◽  
Radiocarbon Dates ◽  
Two Cultures ◽  
Neolithic Culture ◽  
Steppe Region ◽  
Layer 2 ◽  
Cultural Layers

The Varfolomeevka site is a basic location for the characterization of the Orlovka Neolithic culture in the steppe region of Volga River. Currently, there are 35 radiocarbon dates for the three lower layers the Varfolomeevka site. Cultural layers site produced on bone, coal, pottery and the charred crust in the six laboratories of Russia, Ukraine, Sweden and Poland. New radiocarbon dates specified chronology of the Varfolomeevka site. Layer 3 was formed in chronological interval 6200-5900 BC; layer 2 B - in the interval 6200-5700 BC; layer 2 A - in the interval 5600-5200 BC and latest Neolithic layer (1) - in the interval 5400-4800 BC. Received date suggest the following: 1. Precaspian Neolithic culture is formed on the basis of the Orlovka Neolithic culture; 2. These two cultures coexisted in the late Neolithic and the early Aeneolithic age.

scholarly journals ХРОНОЛОГИЯ СРЕДНЕВОЛЖСКОЙ КУЛЬТУРЫ

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
K. Andreev ◽  
◽  
A. Somov ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Volga Region ◽  
Forest Steppe ◽  
Late Neolithic

On the basis of a series of dates, the time of existence of ceramics with tattoos, nail-shaped notches and impressions of a comb stamp is specified. The developed and late Neolithic of the forest-steppe Volga region begins in the middle of the VI Millennium and lasts until the end of the V Millennium BC. at the end of the VI Millennium and the first half of the V Millennium BC, all typological groups of ceramics coexist.

scholarly journals Tempo of a Mega-henge: A New Chronology for Mount Pleasant, Dorchester, Dorset

2020 ◽  
Vol 86 ◽  
pp. 199-236
Author(s):  
Susan Greaney ◽  
Zoë Hazell ◽  
Alistair Barclay ◽  
Christopher Bronk Ramsey ◽  
Elaine Dunbar ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Radiocarbon Dating ◽  
Late Neolithic ◽  
Radiocarbon Dates ◽  
Stone Monument ◽  
Mount Pleasant

Radiocarbon dating and Bayesian chronological modelling have provided precise new dating for the henge monument of Mount Pleasant in Dorset, excavated in 1970–1. A total of 59 radiocarbon dates are now available for the site and modelling of these has provided a revised sequence for the henge enclosure and its various constituent parts: the timber palisaded enclosure, the Conquer Barrow, and the ditch surrounding Site IV, a concentric timber and stone monument. This suggests that the henge was probably built in the 26th century cal bc, shortly followed by the timber palisade and Site IV ditch. These major construction events took place in the late Neolithic over a relatively short timespan, probably lasting 35–125 years. The principal results are discussed for each element of the site, including comparison with similar monument types elsewhere in Britain and Ireland, and wider implications for late Neolithic connections and later activity at the site associated with Beaker pottery are explored.

The Impact of Radiocarbon Dating on the Establishment of the Prehistoric Chronology of Brittany

1971 ◽  
Vol 37 (2) ◽  
pp. 208-217 ◽  
Author(s):  
P. R. Giot
Keyword(s):  
Time Scales ◽  
Iron Age ◽  
Radiocarbon Dating ◽  
Radiocarbon Dates ◽  
The Real ◽  
De Vries ◽  
The Absolute ◽  
To Come ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Neolithic Cultures

From their onset, the first radiocarbon dates gave a range of the absolute chronology to come, but in their detail, they opened more problems than they settled, chiefly because of the possible or unsuspected questions in relation to the reliability of the samples themselves (Delibrias and Giot, 1970). It is only with the experience of great numbers of dates, and the possibility of considering them so to speak statistically, that one can evaluate the real implications of the time scales provided by the method.In Brittany, beginning with a few dates provided by the Groningen Laboratory under H. de Vries, we have been afterwards nearly totally supplied by the Centre des Faibles Radioactivités at Gif-sur-Yvette (Giot, 1960, 1961, 1962, 1963, 1965, 1966, 1967, 1968, 1969, 1970, 1971; Coursaget and Le Run, 1968; Delibrias, Guillier and Labeyrie, 1964, 1965, 1966, 1969, 1970; Coppens, Durand and Guillet, 1968; Vogel and Waterbolk, 1963).We now benefit with more than 200 radiocarbon dates for Brittany alone. We shall consider here about 140 of them, disregarding some duplicates, dates pertaining to periods older than the Neolithic cultures or on the contrary later than the Iron Age, and dates only concerning geological natural sites, though these can be full of interest by their information about the botanical scenery and the effects of cultivation or pasture.

scholarly journals Complexes with Flat-Bottomed Ceramics in the Neolithic from the Don to the Irtysh: A Chronological Aspect

2020 ◽  
Vol 19 (7) ◽  
pp. 139-149
Author(s):  
Vadim S. Mosin
Keyword(s):  
Western Siberia ◽  
Volga Region ◽  
Cultural Tradition ◽  
Forest Steppe ◽  
Early Neolithic ◽  
Radiocarbon Dates ◽  
Lower Volga Region ◽  
Cultural Traditions ◽  
European Part Of Russia ◽  
Points Of View

Purpose. The aim of the work is to analyze the chronology of Neolithic complexes containing flat-bottomed ceramics in the European part of Russia and the Ural-Siberian region, as well as an attempt to highlight patterns in the development of Neolithic Ural-Siberian cultural traditions amidst complexes with flat-bottomed ceramics of the Volga region. Results. Researches of Baraba culture of the early Neolithic of Western Siberia: Tartas-1, Ust-Tartas-1, Vengerovo-2, with radiocarbon dates 8th – 7th thousand BC made it possible to re-address the problem of complexes with flat-bottomed ceramics, especially in the Trans-Ural region and Western Siberia and, perhaps, to reconsider some established points of view. One of the first centers of the autochthonous origin of the Neolithic at the end of VIII – beginning of VII millennium BC is the Baraba cultural tradition of the West Siberian forest-steppe. Also, the autochthonous center for the origin of the Neolithic was the territory of the Northern Caspian region and the Lower Volga region in the first half of the 7th millennium BC. In the middle of the 7th millennium BC in the Volga-Urals region, due to direct migration of the population from the territory of the Aral-Caspian, an Elshan cultural tradition appears. In the second half of the 7th millennium BC the Neolithic of the Trans-Urals is being formed. Technology of Koshkino and Kozlovo cultural pottery traditions was most likely borrowed from the population of the Aral-Caspian, relations with which have been established since the Mesolithic. Conclusion. The obtained results give grounds to identify several centers of origin of the Neolithic in the territories of European Russia, the Urals and Western Siberia with flat-bottomed ceramics at the end of 8th – first half of 7th millennium BC and round-bottom ceramics in the middle of the 7th millennium BC. The oldest among them are sites of the Baraba forest-steppe.

scholarly journals On the Origin of the Caspian Culture

2021 ◽  
pp. 31-37
Author(s):  
Aleksandr Vybornov ◽  
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Vladimir Stavitsky ◽  
Marianna Kulkova ◽  
◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Bronze Age ◽  
Raw Materials ◽  
Volga Region ◽  
Alternative View ◽  
Forest Steppe ◽  
Cattle Breeding ◽  
Radiocarbon Dates ◽  
Lower Volga ◽  
Azov Region ◽  
Cultural Genesis

Introduction. The territory of Lower Volga occupies a special place in studying the cultural genesis of Eastern Europe. Prominent cultures of the Eneolithic and Early Bronze Age were formed there and played an important role in the formation of the Volga-Ural hearth of cultural genesis. Equally important is the problem of the origin of the Caspian culture, with which researchers associate the beginning of the spread of cattle breeding and the emergence of the first copper products in the Volga steppe. Methods and discussion. The researchers expressed quite similar views on this issue. The process of Caspian culture origin in the Lower Volga region was considered as autochthonous with the participation of northern components. The substrate basis was the Oryol culture, and the superstrate was the societies of the Volga region forest-steppe. The comprehensive analysis of Volga steppe materials allows offering an alternative view of the Caspian culture genesis. The appearance of several features (collar-like thickening, a combed stamp, the technique of increased spin, producing economy, the dominance of quartzite raw materials for the manufacture of tools, the technique of forced squeezing in the receipt of logs, the emergence of producing farming in the form of cattle breeding, etc.) is associated not with the northern foreststeppe and forest-steppe, but with western components. The comparative analysis of radiocarbon dates of the forest-steppe and steppe Volga, Northern Caspian Sea and Don area supports this version. The chronological priority is fixed for materials of the Don area and Azov region. It is in these areas that the leading features characteristic of the Caspian culture appeared earlier. Results. The earlier complexes of the Caspian culture were formed in the Northern Caspian about 5700 BC. Later its penetration into the Lower and forest-steppe Volga Basin was recorded.

scholarly journals Ceramic materials of the late neolithic - early bronze age of the Podzorovo site on the Upper Don from the excavations by M.E. Foss in 1953

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 143-149
Author(s):  
Andrey Sergeevich Zheludkov ◽  
Roman Viktorovich Smolyaninov ◽  
Irina Viktorovna Klimkova
Keyword(s):  
Bronze Age ◽  
Ceramic Materials ◽  
Early Bronze Age ◽  
Forest Steppe ◽  
Late Neolithic ◽  
Additional Information ◽  
Neolithic Culture ◽  
Cultural Types ◽  
Technological Analysis ◽  
The Bronze Age

The following paper analyzes ceramic collection from the excavations by M.E. Foss in 1953 from the Podzorovo site in Michurinsky District , Tambov Region, stored in the collections of the State Historical Museum (GIM 104032, inventory A 833). According to the results of the research, M.E. Foss concluded that there was originally a Late Neolithic site, and then a Bronze Age settlement. At the same time, the ceramics were divided into two groups: Late Neolithic (first of all pit-comb ornamented) and relating to the Bronze Age (other). When reviewing the collection in the light of new knowledge we were able to identify the materials of Dronicha late Neolithic culture, Eneolithic Srednestog culture and ceramics of the Ksizovo type, as well as Repino culture of the early Bronze Age. All of them find numerous analogies in the settlements of Don forest-steppe area. Thus, it was established that only in the Neolithic era - early Bronze, the Podzorovo site was settled at least six times. As additional information when describing ceramics, we present data on the results of the technical and technological analysis obtained during the study of ceramics of these cultures and cultural types originating from the settlements of the Upper Don.

scholarly journals Novoilyinskaya Post-Neolithic culture in the Middle and Upper Kama River region

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 179-186
Author(s):  
Evgeniya Leonidovna Lychagina ◽  
Alexander Alekseevich Vybornov ◽  
Olga Vladimirovna Zhukova
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Volga Region ◽  
Late Neolithic ◽  
Middle Volga Region ◽  
Neolithic Culture ◽  
Neolithic Age ◽  
River Region ◽  
Middle Volga ◽  
Radiocarbon Chronology

This paper deals with the analysis of the materials from the Novoilyinskaya culture monuments in the Middle Kama River region, traces the issue history and determines how much is known about it. The main sources of the issue are given and their reliability is determined here. The location of the sites and the characteristic parameters of dwellings are recorded. Their similarity with the Neolithic is stated. The ceramic and stone tools are described. The characteristic and special features are distinguished. A comparative analysis of the complexes with the materials of the late Neolithic is carried out, that reveals a certain similarity. The paper considers the issue of the metalwork residues presence at the Novoilyinskaya culture monuments. It is concluded that there is no evidence of the Eneolithic character of the Novoilyinskaya culture sites. The database on radiocarbon chronology of the Novoilyinskaya culture complexes is analyzed. The most valid values are highlighted. Their chronological interval of existence is determined: 5200-4500 BP. The issue of the genesis of the Novoilyinskaya culture in the Middle Kama River region is covered. The proximity with the culture of the local Neolithic is stated, as well as the role of cultures of adjacent territories is assumed. A comparative analysis with materials of the Krasnomostovsky type of the forest Middle Volga region is given. The conclusion about their chronological correlation is made. The authors also come to the conclusion about the Post-Neolithic age of the Novoilyinskaya culture. This culture is included in the range of the forest Middle and Upper Volga region cultures.

scholarly journals New data about the early Neolithic of the steppe Volga Region

2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
pp. 199-204
Author(s):  
Aleksandr Ivanovich Yudin ◽  
Aleksandr Alekseevich Vybornov
Keyword(s):  
Organic Materials ◽  
Lower Layer ◽  
Region Of Interest ◽  
Volga Region ◽  
Early Neolithic ◽  
Late Neolithic ◽  
Radiocarbon Dates ◽  
Field Surveys ◽  
Long Time ◽  
Technological Analysis

The issue of early Neolithic isolation in various territories is one of the most difficult to study. The early Neolithic steppe Volga Region was unknown for a long time. This is due to the small number of Neolithic monuments in the region of interest. The situation changed after the study of the Varfolomeevskaya site. The lower layer of this reference monument of the Orel culture belonged to the Middle Neolithic, layers 2B and 2A - to the late Neolithic. This version was based on a limited source base and a few radiocarbon dates, some of which were of a debatable nature. New field surveys in 2014-2017 on three excavations in Oroshaemoe Settlement and significant series of radiocarbon dates for various organic materials obtained in various laboratories (including AMS) allowed us to revise the periodization of both the Varfolomeevskaya site and the Oryol culture on the whole. This allows you to make a typological analysis of materials, as well as technical and technological analysis of ceramic implements. Thus, the earliest ceramics are made from silt with a natural admixture of shells of mollusks. The lower layer of the monument is now defined as Early Neolithic, layer 2B - the Middle Neolithic, layer 2A - late Neolithic.

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