The earliest Neolithic complex in Siberia: the Ust-Karenga 12 site and its significance for the Neolithisation process in Eurasia

Documenta Praehistorica

Yaroslav V. Kuzmin²  Viktor M. Vetrov¹ 

[1] Irkutsk State Pedagogical University, Irkutsk, Russia$$;Pacific Institute of Geography, Far Eastern Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Vladivostok$$

关键词: Neolithic;    Siberia;    earliest pottery;    radiocarbon dating;   

DOI  :  10.4312/dp.34.2

学科分类：地球科学(综合)

来源: Univerza v Ljubljani * Filozofska Fakulteta / University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Philosophy

【 摘 要 】

The discovery of Neolithic (i.e. pottery-containing) components at the Ust-Karenga 12 site in northern Transbaikal brought to light new data on the appearance of pottery in Siberia. Excavations and geoarchaeological studies identified the pottery complex in layer 7, 14C-dated to c. 12 180–10 750 BP (charcoal dates) and c. 11 070–10 600 BP (pottery organics dates). The pottery is thin and plant fibre-tempered; vessels are round-bottomed and with a comb-pattern design. Ust-Karenga 12 thus preserves by far the earliest Neolithic assemblage in Siberia, and is only slightly younger than the Initial Neolithic complexes of the Amur River basin, Russian Far East (c. 13 300–12 400 BP).

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