Chronological timeframes of cultural changes in the Dnepr-Dvina region (7th to 3rd millennium BC)

• Published in: Documenta Praehistorica
• Main Authors: Mazurkevich, Andrey, Dolbunova, Ekaterina, Zaitseva, Ganna, Kulkova, Marianna
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Znanstvena založba Filozofske fakulte / Ljubljana University Press, Faculty of Arts 2017
• Subjects: Eastern Europe; chronology; Neolithic; earliest pottery; pile-dwellings; LBK; Bronze Age; vzhodna Evropa; kronologija; neolitik; najstarejša lončenina; kolišča; kultura line­arno trakaste keramike; bronasta doba; dvina
• Online Access: https://revije.ff.uni-lj.si/DocumentaPraehistorica/article/view/44.10; https://doi.org/10.4312/dp.44.10

Since the 1960s, more than 250 radiocarbon dates have been obtained for materials in the Upper Western Dvina area, which cover a timeframe from the 7th to the 1st millennium BC. Ra­diocarbon dates for materials of the Dnepr-Dvina area date the appearance and decline of various cultural traditions – from the formation of the most ancient pottery among hunter-gatherer com­munities until the appearance of the first stock-breeders in the forest zone, the bearers of cultural traditions of the Corded Ware culture. Dates for materials from the Upper Dvina area show both the existence of hiatuses between some cultural-chronological groups coinciding with some sig­nificant climatic and environmental changes, and the quasi (?) co-existence of some of the groups. Could these hiatuses also be traced in material culture, or do they appear because of a lack of data? Od 60. let 20. stoletja smo pridobili že več kot 250 radiokarbonskih datumov za najdbe iz zahodnega območja reke Dvina, ki sodijo v čas med 7. in 1. tisočletjem pr. n. št. Datumi iz ob­moč­ja rek Dneper in Dvina datirajo pojav in zaton različnih kulturnih tradicij – od oblikovanja naj­sta­rejše lončenine pri skupnostih lovcev in nabiralcev do pojava prvih živinorejcev na območju gozd­ne cone, ki so bili nosilci kulturnih tradicij vrvičaste keramike. Datumi iz območja zgornjega toka reke Dvi­na kažejo na prekinitve med nekaterimi kulturno-kronološkimi skupinami, ki sovpadajo z neka­te­ri­mi pomembnimi klimatskimi in okoljskimi spremembami ter z domnevnim sobivanjem nekate­rih skupin. Ali lahko tem prekinitvam sledimo tudi v materialni kulturi ali pa se pojavijo le zaradi po­manj­kanja podatkov?