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Another Way of Early Pottery Distribution in Eastern Europe? Case Study of the Pezmog 4 Site, European Far Northeast

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 February 2016

Victor N Karmanov ,
Natalia E Zaretskaya  and
Alexander V Volokitin
Victor N Karmanov*
Affiliation:
Institute of Language, Literature and History of Komi Science Center, Ural Branch of Russian Academy of Sciences, Kommunisticheskaya St., 26; 167982, Syktyvkar, Republic of Komi, Russian Federation
Natalia E Zaretskaya
Affiliation:
Geological Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, Pyzhevsky Per., 7, 119017, Moscow, Russia
Alexander V Volokitin
Affiliation:
Institute of Language, Literature and History of Komi Science Center, Ural Branch of Russian Academy of Sciences, Kommunisticheskaya St., 26; 167982, Syktyvkar, Republic of Komi, Russian Federation
*
2. Corresponding author. Email: vkarman@bk.ru.
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Abstract

A case study of the Neolithic comb ceramic site Pezmog 4 of the Kama culture presents a situation when results of radiocarbon dating change long-existing concepts concerning the development of archaeological events. Until the early 2000s, the chronology of the Kama culture, distributed mainly in the Kama and Vychegda River basins, has been based on comparative-typological analysis. Estimates of the age of this culture changed from the 3rd millennium BC in the 1950s to the 1st half of the 4th millennium BC by the 1990s. Research concerning the Pezmog 4 site in the central Vychegda River basin in 1999–2002 has abruptly changed this chronological understanding. The data obtained put the age of the early stage of Kama culture within the time range 5750–5620 cal BC and allowed us to propose the existence of another way of early pottery distribution in the forest zone of eastern Europe at the beginning of the 6th millennium BC. This innovation probably penetrated from the trans-Ural region.

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Eurasian Archaeology
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Radiocarbon , Volume 56 , Issue 2 , 2014 , pp. 733 - 741
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Copyright © 2014 by the Arizona Board of Regents on behalf of the University of Arizona 

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