Settlement and economy in Neolithic Ukraine: a new chronology

• Autores: D. Ya. Telegin, M. Lillie, I. D. Potekhina, M. M. Kovaliukh
• Localización: Antiquity, ISSN 0003-598X, Vol. 77, Nº 297, 2003, págs. 456-470
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • The authors use their revised chronology for the Mariupol-type cemeteries (presented in Antiquity 76: 356-63 (2002)) to offer a new sequence for Neolithic settlement and economy in Ukraine. They find that the transition to the Neolithic began about 6500 cal BC, but co-existed with Mesolithic communities for a further millennium. In about 4500 cal BC early copper age cultures appeared, which in turn coexisted with the Neolithic in neighbouring areas. Co-existent cultures are defined in terms of their artefacts, subsistence strategies, burial practice and physical types. The Mariupol-type cemeteries seem to have had their origins in the late Mesolithic and endured into the Copper Age, a period of more than two thousand years (c. 6500–4000 cal BC).