R25 - The Dawn of the Neolithic in Northern Eurasia: Development of Foraging Complexity

Session Organisers: Ekaterina Dolbunova, Marianna Kulkova, Viktor Karmanov, Evgenia Tkach

Category: Different Neolithics

Session Abstract: Vast areas of the both sides of the Urals with different ecotones were populated by foraging communities that sustained their way of life for several millennia. The instability of ecological niches due to climatic and/or anthropogenic factors and the variability of biodiversity may have forced societies to change their adaptation mechanisms - through the development of new habitats, the adoption of innovation, the formation of new social and economic systems and networks. Crucial changes of the 7th- 6th mill calBC within these hunter-gatherer societies are marked by settlement of larger areas, appearance of ceramics which became of a wide use in the whole hunter-gatherer world, increase of sedentism, changes in foraging strategies, and new settlement systems manifesting all a new way of life. The asynchronous appearance of these changes in different societies may have been due to their rate of acceptance of innovations, the speed of the process, the way how they were transferred. The new ‘Neolithic’ networks established might have been limited both by natural and, possibly, cultural borders. The session aims to show how local foraging groups reacted to the new reality, accepted and adapted to it or not. We are encouraging papers showing changes occurred comparing to the preceding Mesolithic time, the speed of these processes; the innovations emerged, whether these processes were triggered by global and local paleoclimatic changes through archaeological studies and implication of natural scientific methods.

Room: K

07/11/2024

Start Time - End Time	Authors	Title
13:00 - 13:15	Ekaterina Dolbunova	Introduction
13:15 - 13:30	Eugen Kolpakov	The Neolithic in archeology
13:30 - 13:45	Alexander Vybornov, Marianna Kulkova, Sergey Glushenko	The impact of natural and climatic factors on the development of the Neolithic processes in the Lower Volga region
13:45 - 14:00	Konstantin Andreev	Transition from Mesolithic to Neolithic in the forest-steppe Volga region (Eastern Europe)
14:00 - 14:15	Andrey Mazurkevich, Ekaterina Dolbunova, Yolaine Maigrot, Piotr Kittel, Mateusz Plóciennik, Michal Slowinski, Dominika Luców, Monika Rzodkiewicz, Daniel Okupny, Emilie Gauthier	The last hunter-gatherers of NW Europe: global vs local paleoclimatic trends and ways of adaptation

Coffee Break

Start Time - End Time	Authors	Title
14:45 - 15:00	Daria Kiseleva, Evgeny Shagalov, Tatyana Okuneva, Natalia Soloshenko, Anna Rybakova, Elizaveta Pankrushina, Anastasia Ryanskaya, Victoria Igosheva, Anastasia Fokina, Victoria Fedorova	Regional Bioavailable Sr Isoscapes for the Urals and Black Sea regions and Caucasus
15:00 - 15:15	Ekaterina Dubovtseva, Henny Piezonka, Tanja Schreiber, John Meadows	Dating the Taiga Forts: New chronological and archaeological evidence on Stone Age fortified hunter-gatherer settlements in the West Siberian taiga
15:15 - 15:30	Alexey Tarasov, Dmitry Blyshko, Oleg Lavrov, Alexander Zhulnikov	Quarrymen and artisans of the North-Eastern Europe in the final Stone Age. Lithic quarries and workshops of the western shore of Lake Onega
15:30 - 15:45	Alevtina Kiseleva	The adoption of pottery into Northeastern Fennoscandia: early pottery technology, variation and chronology on the Kola North
15:45 - 16:00	Evgeniia Tkach	New data of the Sub-Neolithic Zedmar culture on the South-Eastern Baltic

Coffee Break

Start Time - End Time	Authors	Title
16:30 - 16:50	T.M. Gusentsova, M.A.Kulkova	Mineralogical, geochemical and technological characteristics of pottery as an indicator of cultural and chronological changes in the Neolithic and Early Metal Age in the Southern Ladoga Lake region (Eastern Baltic)
16:50 - 17:10	Evgeniia Lychagina, Elena Lapteva, Nataliya Zaretskaya	Palaeoenvironment of the Upper Kama basin at the early stage of Neolithization of the region