Issue 3 (60)

RADIOCARBON DATING OF THE KOKSHAROV HILL NEOLITHIC COMPLEXES
Year 2018 Number 3(60)
Pages 97-107 Type scientific article
UDC 902.652(470.5) BBK 63.442(235.55)
Authors Shorina Anastasia A.
Shorin Alexander F.
Topic THE CHRONOLOGY OF THE NEOLITHIC AND ENEOLITHIC EURASIA
Summary Based on the study of 54 radiocarbon dates we have established the period of the existence of the Neolithic complexes of the archaeological site “Koksharov Hill — Yurjino settlement”. The probability sum diagram for all dates produced the time interval of its functioning between 6600–4400 cal BC with 95.4 % probability. With the 68.2 % probability we observed two clear peaks within this interval — 6000–5300 cal BC and 5100–4600 cal BC. It is quite possible that they marked two stages of the sacred place use — the early stage (its beginning could most likely be marked by the dates within the interval between 14Ñ 7474±80 BÐ — 7010±80 BÐ, i. e. the period of the second half of the 7th — middle of the 6th millennium BC) and the late (covered the period of the end of the 6th — beginning of the third quarter of the 5th millennium BC). The early stage involved the building on the site of the religious and the residential structures of the Koshkino and the Koksharovsko-Yurjinskaya population groups. At the late stage these groups at first coexisted, and later were replaced by the Poludenskaya culture population, at the same time the Basjyanovsky ornamental complex was formed. The latest date for this complex — 14Ñ 5470±90 BÐ — linked up with the Eneolithic Ayat stage of the site’s occupation — 14Ñ 5440±90 BÐ and 14Ñ 5250±90 BÐ. However at that time the site was already hardly used as for religious purposes
Keywords Neolithic, the chronology, the Trans-Ural, Koksharovsky Hill, Yurinskoe settlement, koshkinskaya culture, koksharovsko-yurinskaya culture, basyanovskaya culture, poludenskaya culture
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