Issue 3 (60)
| VOZHE LAKE EARLY NEOLITHIC CHRONOLOGY | |||
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| Year | 2018 | Number | 3(60) |
| Pages | 78-86 | Type | scientific article |
| UDC | 902.6(470.12) | BBK | 63.442.14(235.1) |
| Authors | Kulkova Marianna A. Kosorukova Natalia V. Piezonka Henny |
Topic | THE CHRONOLOGY OF THE NEOLITHIC AND ENEOLITHIC EURASIA |
| Summary | The article studies the chronology of the Early Neolithic period in the Vozhe lake basin located in the north of the Vologda region based on the materials of the peat bog occupation site Karavaikha 4. The authors discovered some fishing structures made of wooden poles, various artifacts including pottery sherds deposited under the peat and sapropel levels in the lower part of the latter, as well as at the points of its contact with the mainland clay. The chronology was established on the basis of 47 available radiocarbon dates (20 of which have not been published before), the results of the palinological and the geo-chemical analyses. The dates were obtained mostly for the wooden items with traces of working, namely the poles from the fishing structures, as well as for the pottery soot, a fragment of a bone tool and the soils. The soot dates covered the period of 5642–4700 cal BC. The pole dates referred mostly to the earlier period — from the second half of the 7th millennium BC to the last quarter of the 6th millennium BC. The soil dates demonstrated that the end of the sapropel level accumulation and the beginning of peat formation occurred not later than in the beginning of the 5th millennium BC. This means that the Vozhe lake basin neolitization started not later than the second quarter of the 6th millennium BC (however, provided the wood dates are included, it might have started already in the second half of the 7th millennium BC) and developed in parallel with the similar phenomena in the neighboring regions. | ||
| Keywords | Lake Vozhe basin, Early Neolithic Age, Karavaikha 4 peat site, fishing structures, wooden poles, ceramics, radiocarbon dates, palynological analysis, geochemical analysis | ||
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