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VITA ANTIQUA, 12 (2020)                                                      ISSN 2522-9419 (online), ISSN 2519-4542 (print)
Center for Paleoethnological Research

VITA ANTIQUA 12, 2020, Climate Impact on East European Neolithic Societies.
Materials of the session ‘The Climate Impact on European Neolithic Societies During the 8.2-ky BP Events Near River Basins and Lakes’. #Networking, 26th Virtual Annual Meeting of the European Association of Archaeologists (August 24-30, 2020)
Kyiv Dnieper Region sites with Kukrek inventory in archeological and climate contexts, 41-71

Andrii Sorokun1
Pavlo Shydlovskyi2

1 Institute of Archaeology, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine
ORCID: 000-0002-8506-4817
2 Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv
ORCID: 0000-0001-6771-812X

DOI:10.37098/VA-2020-12-41-71
http://doi.org/10.37098/VA-2020-12-41-71

Abstract:
Research in the field of paleoecology in recent years has confidently proven the vulnerability and sensitivity of human networks to climate and landscape changes. It is impossible to understand the processes of cultural dynamics, migration, ways of technology dissemination without the involvement of data from paleoclimatology and paleogeography. This is especially true in addressing the issues of gradualness - discontinuity in the development of cultural phenomena of the late Pleistocene - early Holocene.

The article presents an attempt to analyse the archaeological and climate backgrounds of the spread of Kukrek technocomplex together with the traditions of ceramic production in the Kyiv Dnieper Region. One of the main results of the study is the conclusion about the complexity of migration processes in the Early Holocene, which is manifested in significant variability of sites, and in various combinations of Janislawice, Kukrek, Bug-Dniester and Dnipro-Donetsk components in lithic and ceramic assemblages. Settlement dynamics was marked by significant fluctuations and uneven population of the Kyiv Dnieper Region. At the base of this dynamic was global climate change, the main ones being the coolings of the Young Dryas and the 6,200 BC event.

Key words: Early Holocene, Mesolithic, Neolithization, past global change, Kukrek, Janislawice, Middle Dnieper Region

Language: English

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Sorokun, A., Shydlovskyi, P. 2020. Kyiv Dnieper Region sites with Kukrek inventory in archeological and climate contexts. VITA ANTIQUA 12. Climate Impact on East European Neolithic Societies, p. 41-71.

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