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The Age of Upper Paleolithic Sites in the Middle Dnieper River Basin of Eastern Europe

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 July 2016

Z A Abramova ,
G V Grigorieva  and
G I Zaitseva
Z A Abramova
Affiliation:
Institute for the History of Material Culture, the Russian Academy of Sciences. St.Petersburg, Dvortsovaya nab. 18, 191186, Russia. Email: ganna@mail.wplus.net
G V Grigorieva
Affiliation:
Institute for the History of Material Culture, the Russian Academy of Sciences. St.Petersburg, Dvortsovaya nab. 18, 191186, Russia. Email: ganna@mail.wplus.net
G I Zaitseva
Affiliation:
Institute for the History of Material Culture, the Russian Academy of Sciences. St.Petersburg, Dvortsovaya nab. 18, 191186, Russia. Email: ganna@mail.wplus.net
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Abstract

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This paper discusses the comparative chronology of Upper Paleolithic sites in the Middle Dnieper River basin, based on archaeological and radiocarbon evidence. Three chronological periods of the development of the Upper Paleolithic are distinguished in this area. According to the data obtained, the third period is similar to the European Magdalenian, yet its economies were different. The base of the subsistence economy for Dnieperian hunters was the procurement of mammoth, while reindeer was the most important for the subsistence of European Magdalenian. The abundance of mammoths and the raw material in the form of mammoth tusks made a deep impact on both the economy and material culture of the hunters in the Dnieper River basin. The 14C dates confirm the chronological subdivision.

Type
II. Our ‘Wet’ Environment
Information
Radiocarbon , Volume 43 , Issue 2B: Proceedings of the 17th International Radiocarbon Conference (Part 2 of 3), Conference Editors: Israel Carmi, Elisabetta Boaretto , 2001 , pp. 1077 - 1084
Copyright
Copyright © 2001 by the Arizona Board of Regents on behalf of the University of Arizona 

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