Open AccessNew interdisciplinary research on Neolithic-Eneolithic sites in the Low Volga River region
Author(s) -
Marianna Kulkova,
Alexandr A. Vybornov,
Aleksandr Ivanovich Yudin,
Nataliya Doga,
Антон Юрьевич Попов
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
documenta praehistorica
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.587
H-Index - 17
eISSN - 1854-2492
pISSN - 1408-967X
DOI - 10.4312/dp.46.23
Subject(s) - chalcolithic , archaeology , radiocarbon dating , pottery , prehistory , volga region , steppe , holocene , geography , chronology , period (music) , geology , bronze age , ancient history , history , physics , acoustics
The Neolithic and Eneolithic sites in the Low Volga River region have been poorly investigated in comparison with other territories due to a small number of excavated sites. On the Algay site and the Oroshaemoe I settlement there is evidence of the earliest appearance of Neolithic pottery and the first sign of domestication in the Eneolithic period within the Volgo-Ural territory. Archaeological, lithological, grain-size analyses, mineralogical-geochemical methods and radiocarbon dating of cultural deposits have been applied to reconstruct the palaeoenvironment in the Holocene in this area. The results show that the landscape-climatic conditions in the steppe area of the Lower Volga basin strongly affected the development and adaptation of ancient societies.