Chronology and Periodization of the Neolithic in the Upper and Middle Kama Region
Chronology and Periodization of the Neolithic in the Upper and Middle Kama Region
E.L. Lychagina.
Recent radiocarbon dating of Neolithic sites in the Upper and Middle Kama region has provided a chronological framework for the Neolithic in the region: the Early Neolithic – second half of 6th millennium BC; the Middle Neolithic – fi rst half to mid 5th millennium BC, and the Late Neolithic – the second half of 5th millennium BC. Sites attributable to the fi rst and the second stages are characterized by ceramics with both comb and pricked ornamentation.