The origin of farming in the Lower Volga Region

Alexander Vybornov; Pavel Kosintsev; Marianna Kulkova

doi:10.4312/dp.42.3

Authors

Alexander Vybornov Samara State Academy of Social Sciences and Humanities, Samara
Pavel Kosintsev Institute of Plant and Animal Ecology, Urals Branch of the RAS, Ekaterinburg
Marianna Kulkova Russian State Pedagogical University, St. Petersburg

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.4312/dp.42.3

Keywords:

Neolithic, Lower Volga region, farming, absolute chronology

Abstract

The paper focuses on the results of archaeological, palaezoological, and radiocarbon analyses of Neolithic and Eneolithic sites in the Northern Caspian and Lower Volga regions. New analyses show that only wild animal species inhabited the territory in the Neolithic. Animals were not domesticated until the Eneolithic period.