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14C Chronology of Stone Age Cultures in the Russian Far East

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 July 2016

Yaroslav V. Kuzmin ,
A. J. T. Jull ,
Lyobov A. Orlova  and
Leopold D. Sulerzhitsky
Yaroslav V. Kuzmin
Affiliation:
Pacific Institute of Geography, Radio St. 7, Vladivostok 690041 Russia
A. J. T. Jull
Affiliation:
NSF-Arizona AMS Facility, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona 85721 USA
Lyobov A. Orlova
Affiliation:
Institute of Geology, Universitetsky Pr. 3, Novosibirsk 630090 Russia
Leopold D. Sulerzhitsky
Affiliation:
Geological Institute, Pyzhevsky Per. 7, Moscow 109017 Russia
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Ca. 150 unequivocal 14C dates from the prehistoric cultures in the Russian Far East can be used to elucidate chrono-cultural boundaries in that region. Microblade technology started as early as ca. 20,000 bp, and continued to exist in the middle Amur River basin until ca. 10,500 bp, and in Primorye until ca. 7800 bp. The emergence of pottery-making in the lower Amur River basin goes back to ca. 13,300 bp. The transition from Upper Paleolithic to Neolithic took place during the time interval 13,300–7800 bp and pottery was widely spread in the Russian Far East by ca. 6700–8400 bp. The first evidence of shellfish collection is estimated to ca. 6400 bp at Peter the Great Gulf coast, Sea of Japan. The beginning of agriculture in Primorye, based on finding of both millet seeds (Setaria italica L.) and pollen of cultivated cereals (Cerealia), is 14C-dated to ca. 4200–3700 bp (ca. 1980–2900 cal BC). The Neolithic/Early Iron Age boundary was estimated at ca. 3100–3300 bp (1400–1600 cal BC) in the mainland Russian Far East, and to ca. 1800–2300 bp (400 cal BC–200 cal ad) on the Sakhalin and southern Kuril Islands.

Type
Part 2: Applications
Information
Radiocarbon , Volume 40 , Issue 2: 16th International Radiocarbon Conference June 16-20, 1997 Part 2: Applications, Conference Editors: Willem G. Mook Johannes van der Plicht , 1997 , pp. 675 - 686
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Copyright © The American Journal of Science 

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