The Early and Middle Neolithic in NW Russia: radiocarbon chronologies from the Sukhona and Onega regions

• Published in: Documenta Praehistorica
• Main Authors: Henny Piezonka, Nadezhda Nedomolkina, Marina Ivanishcheva, Natalya Kosorukova, Marianna Kulkova, John Meadows
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: University of Ljubljana Press (Založba Univerze v Ljubljani) 2017
• Subjects: Northern Russia; hunter-gatherer-fishers; Early and Middle Neolithic; radiocarbon chronology; stratigraphy; 7th-5th millennium cal BC; Archaeology; CC1-960; Berezovaya; Onega; Fennoscandia; Russian North
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.4312/dp.44.8; https://doaj.org/article/d8cfa0fde5504a2fb26dee6651ba3021

The onset of the Neolithic period in the Russian North is defined by the emergence of pottery vessels in the archaeological record. The ceramics produced by mobile hunter-gatherer-fisher groups in the north-eastern European forest zone are among the earliest in Europe, starting around 6000 cal BC. A...