Open AccessThe Sperrings culture (current state of study)
Author(s) -
K. German
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
samarskij naučnyj vestnik
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2782-3016
pISSN - 2309-4370
DOI - 10.17816/snv201873214
Subject(s) - archaeology , period (music) , human settlement , settlement (finance) , structural basin , dozen , geography , geology , paleontology , art , arithmetic , mathematics , world wide web , computer science , payment , aesthetics
The following paper deals with the study of the Sperrings culture. More than a decade has passed since the last general publications on early Neolithic of Karelia. During this period, new sites of the Sperrings culture have been discovered and studied, first AMS-dating has been received from the ceramic fragments, monuments of the early Neolithic in the neighboring territories have been studied. As a result of two decades of the archaeological research in Karelia more than a dozen of new monuments were discovered and investigated, including poorly explored areas of the Northern Ladoga and Karelian isthmus. The Sperrings culture centre is the Onega lake basin, where more than 200 settlements are known. The existence period of the Sperrings culture in the Onega lake basin on the basis of AMS-dates is 53064250 cal BC. These data are also consistent with AMS-dating of bones of Koirinoya III settlement in the North Ladoga area. The Sperrings ceramics appeared on the territory of Karelia at the same time.