Pages: 101-118

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The authors consider the counter-version theories of the beginning of the neolithization of Eastern Europe associated with the cultural impact of the population of neighboring regions. One of the indicators of neolithization is the process of spreading of pressing technique of splitting and trapezes of low and medium height proportions made on pressing blades. Such techniques and types of trapezes are widespread in the Early and Middle Holocene over a huge area covering the whole south of Europe. Accordingly, it can be very difficult to find correlations between the new Neolithic cultures and their predecessors. Nevertheless, the authors are trying to find a boundary between East and West, to explain the connection between the Bug-Dniester culture and the cultures of the Krish-Keresh-Starchevo circle with the archaeological cultures of of pre-Neolithic times.

Keywords: Neolithic, neolithization, balkanization, pressing technique, trapezes, radiocarbon dating

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