Settlements and Indigenous Populations at the Easternmost Fringe of the Linear Pottery Culture
- Autores: Dmytro Kiosak
- Localización: Eurasia antiqua: Zeitschrift für Archäologie Eurasiens, ISSN 0949-0434, Nº. 20, 2014 (Ejemplar dedicado a: Alexandru Vulpe), págs. 117-141
- Idioma: inglés
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Resumen
The paper treats the neolithic of wouth-western Ukraine, which lies immediately adjacent to the Carpathian-Danubian region. An easternmost settlement of Linear Pottery at culture Kamyane-Zavallia was revealed here in 2011. Small-scale excavations brought to light most of this culture's characteristic package - a pit (probably, a "long pit"), fine-ware ornamented with "Notenkopf" decorations, a typical lithic tool set, "Schuleistenkeil" adze, grinding stones.
There are 2 more settlements and 4 isolated finds of Linear Pottery culture in the Southern Bug valley. So, the latter in evidently a region regularly settled by linear Pottery bearers. This statement makes it necessary to reasses the issue of relations between Linear Pottery culture and the "local" Neolithic Bug-Dniester culture.
The author suggests theat the Bug-Dniester culture in "an entity of mode of life". The main characteristics of the latter were defined by the dominant orientation on the river-resources exploitation. Similar "entities" are known from a number of river valleys in eastern Europe. They are different both from mobile hunter-gatherers and farmers of the Balkan and Central European Neolithic. A comparision of the settlement patterns of Linear Pottery culture and Bug-Dniester culture revealed drastically different ways of spatial organization. Thus, contacts between the two cultures could be quite limited even when their syncronism and territorial over-lap are proved
