New Absolute Dates for the Trans-Uralian and Western Siberian Neolithic
New Absolute Dates for the Trans-Uralian and Western Siberian Neolithic
DOI: 10.17746/1563-0110.2017.45.4.065-073
V.S. Mosin1, 2, V.V. Bobrov3, 4, and A.G. Marochkin4 1South Ural Department of the Institute of History and Archaeology, Ural Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences, Kommuny 68, Chelyabinsk, 454000, Russia 2South Ural State University, Pr. Lenina 76, Chelyabinsk, 454080, Russia 3Kemerovo State University, Krasnaya 6, Kemerovo, 650000, Russia 4Institute of Human Ecology, Federal Research Center of Coal and Coal Chemistry, Siberian Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences, Sovetsky pr. 18, Kemerovo, 650000, Russia
This article deals with the absolute chronology of the Neolithic cultures of the eastern Ural, Middle Irtysh-Baraba, and Upper Ob regions. Twenty-two new radiocarbon dates for the ceramic assemblages of the Trans-Uralian Neolithic and thirteen for those of the western Siberian forest-steppe suggest that the Kozlov Mys, Poludenka, and Boborykino sites in the forest-steppe coexisted with those of the Makhandzhar type in eastern Ural and Kazakhstan during the early Neolithic and in the beginning of the Late Neolithic. Late Neolithic Artyn settlements on the Middle Irtysh and in Baraba are contemporaneous with the Protoka and Vengerovo-2A burial grounds (middle and second half of the 5th millennium BC). Boborykino sites in the Trans-Urals are contemporaneous with Avtodrom-2/2, representing the same culture (first half and mid-5th millennium BC). The Izylinka/Zavyalovo stage of the Middle Neolithic on the Upper Ob dates to the late 6th to early 5th millennia BC. Late Neolithic Kiprino/Novo-Kuskovo sites on the Upper Ob date to the mid-5th to early 4th millennia BC. The Bolshoy Mys sites date to the 4th millennium BC.
