Chronological timeframes of cultural changes in the Dnepr-Dvina region (7th to 3rd millennium BC)

Andrey Mazurkevich; Ekaterina Dolbunova; Ganna Zaitseva; Marianna Kulkova

doi:10.4312/dp.44.10

Authors

Andrey Mazurkevich The State Hermitage Museum, The department of archaeology of Eastern Europe and Siberia, Saint-Petersburg
Ekaterina Dolbunova The State Hermitage Museum, The department of archaeology of Eastern Europe and Siberia, Saint-Petersburg
Ganna Zaitseva Institute for the History of Material Culture RAS
Marianna Kulkova Herzen State Pedagogical University

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.4312/dp.44.10

Keywords:

Eastern Europe, chronology, Neolithic, earliest pottery, pile-dwellings, LBK, Bronze Age

Abstract

Since the 1960s, more than 250 radiocarbon dates have been obtained for materials in the Upper Western Dvina area, which cover a timeframe from the 7th to the 1st millennium BC. Radiocarbon dates for materials of the Dnepr-Dvina area date the appearance and decline of various cultural traditions – from the formation of the most ancient pottery among hunter-gatherer communities until the appearance of the first stock-breeders in the forest zone, the bearers of cultural traditions of the Corded Ware culture. Dates for materials from the Upper Dvina area show both the existence of hiatuses between some cultural-chronological groups coinciding with some significant climatic and environmental changes, and the quasi (?) co-existence of some of the groups. Could these hiatuses also be traced in material culture, or do they appear because of a lack of data?