The Spread of the Neolithic in the South East European Plain: Radiocarbon Chronology, Subsistence, and Environment

• DOI: 10.1017/s0033822200056095
• Publication Date: 2016-07-20T05:15:24Z
• Authors: Pavel M Dolukhanov; Anvar Shukurov; Kate Davison; Graeme Sarson; Natalia P Gerasim...; Galina A Pashkevich; Aleksandr A Vybornov; Nikolai N Kovalyukh; V V Skripkin; Ganna I Zaitseva; Tatiana V Sapelko
• Keywords: Chronology; Steppe

Newly available radiocarbon dates show the early signs of pottery-making in North Caspian area, Middle-Lower Volga, and Lower Don at 8–7 kyr cal BC. Stable settlements, as indicated by “coeval subsamples,” are recognized Volga (Yelshanian) 6.8 BC Lowland about 6 The ages Strumel-Gostyatin, Surskian, Bug-Dniesterian sites range 6.6–4.5 BC, overlapping with farming entities (Starčevo-Körös-Criş Linear Pottery), whose influence is perceptible archaeological materials. Likewise, 14 C-dated pollen data that spread coincided increased precipitation throughout forest-steppe area.