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The Patterns of Neolithization in the North Eurasian Forest Zone: A Comment on Hartz et al. (2012)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 January 2016

Yaroslav V Kuzmin
Yaroslav V Kuzmin*
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Institute of Geology and Mineralogy, Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Novosibirsk 630090, Russia. Email: kuzmin@fulbrightmail.org
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Recently, an article was published in this journal (Hartz et al. 2012), presenting new data on the age of early ceramics in eastern Europe (in particular, the central Russian Plain) and discussing the issues related to the appearance of pottery (i.e. Neolithization) in this region, with wider implications of the results for northern Eurasia. I was one of the reviewers of this paper, which is acknowledged by the authors. However, despite my numerous remarks and comments, many of them were not taken into account. As a result, the work by Hartz et al. (2012) suffers from several flaws; here I point them out and briefly discuss the issue of the Neolithization of Eurasia.

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Radiocarbon , Volume 55 , Issue 1 , 2013 , pp. 201 - 203
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Copyright © 2013 by the Arizona Board of Regents on behalf of the University of Arizona 

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