Radiocarbon chronology of Neolithic in the Lower Don and North-eastern Azov Sea

Andrey Tsybryi; Viktor Tsybryi; Ekaterina Dolbunova; Andrey Mazurkevich; Marianna Kulkova

doi:10.4312/dp.44.13

Authors

Andrey Tsybryi The Don archaeological society
Viktor Tsybryi The Don archaeological society
Ekaterina Dolbunova The State Hermitage Museum, The department of archaeology of Eastern Europe and Siberia, Saint-Petersburg
Andrey Mazurkevich The State Hermitage Museum
Marianna Kulkova Herzen State Pedagogical University

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.4312/dp.44.13

Keywords:

Neolithic, chronology, earliest pottery, Lower Don, North-Eastern Azov Sea

Abstract

So far, four different cultural-chronological groups of sites have been identified in the North-eastern Azov Sea and Lower Don River areas, including sites of the Rakushechny Yar culture, Matveev Kurgan culture, Donets culture, and sites of the Caspian-Ciscaucasian region. An analysis of all known dates, as well as the contexts and stratigraphies of the sites, allowed us to form a new perspective of the chronology of southern Russia, to revise the chronology of this region, and change the concept of unreliability of dates for this area.