Pages: 111-126

Some Swiderian sites occuring in the sediments dated to the Preboreal times were excavated at the basin of the Upper Volga lakes. Their relative chronology is based primarily on typological and palynological evidence. The available archaeological and chronological data give gounds to hypothesize the existence of contacts between the Early Mesolithic Swiderian and Butovo cultures. This may serve as an additional argument in favor of the view that the Butovo culture formed on a Gravettian basis.

Keywords: north-west of the Russian Plain, Early Mesolithic, paleoecology, palynilogical analysis, typology of stone tools

Information about authors:

Galina Sinitsyna (Saint Petersburg, Russian Federation). Candidate of Historical Sciences. Institute for the History of Material Culture of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Dvortsovaya Emb., 18, Saint Petersburg, 191186, Russian Federation
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Elena Spiridonova (Moscow, Russian Federation). Candidate of Geographical Sciences. Institute of Archaeology of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Dmitry Ulyanov St., 19, Moscow, 117036, Russian Federation
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