Pages: 161-201 | DOI: https://doi.org/10.55086/sp241161201
The Late Upper Palaeolithic of Kostёnki and adjacent territories (~21—12 ka uncal BP/~27—14 ka cal BP) remains the period least well-documented with absolute dating evidence. During this study, 19 samples were collected from the cultural layers of ten sites and submitted to the Oxford Radiocarbon Accelerator Unit (ORAU) for radiocarbon dating. The results obtained significantly advance our knowledge of these sites’ ages and of the development of the Palaeolithic in and around Kostёnki. The new data suggest a unique refugium in Kostёnki during the peak of Late Glacial Maximum (~21—18 ka uncal BP/~27—22 ka cal BP), represented by sites of the Zamyatninskaya culture, which has a specific lithic industry. Sites for that period are extremely rare outside Kostёnki. Similar refugia during the LGM have been recorded in Central Europe in Moravia and the Carpathian Basin. At the time of deglaciation, in the period of ~15—16 ka uncal BP (~20—18 ka cal BP), Late/Typical Epigravettian sites appear on the Middle Don, which seems to be relatively synchronous across wide areas of Central and Eastern Europe. Also worthy of note are sites with a cultural attribution different from the Late Epigravettian (Byki 7, Samotoevka) in the period of ~18—16 ka uncal BP (~22—19 ka cal BP) in the Center of the Russian Plain.
Keywords: Eastern Europe, Kostёnki, Middle Don, Late Upper Palaeolithic, Late Glacial Maximum, radiocarbon chronology
Information about authors:
Alexander Bessudnov (Saint Petersburg, Russian Federation). Candidate of Historical Sciences. Institute for the History of Material Culture, Russian Academy of Sciences. Dvortsovaya Emb., 18, Saint Petersburg, 191186, Russian Federation
E-mail: [email protected]
ORCID: 0000-0002-3785-6342
Robert Dinnis (Aberdeen, UK). PhD. University of Aberdeen. St Mary’s Building, Elphinstone Road, Aberdeen, AB24 3UF, UK
E-mail: [email protected]
ORCID: 0000-0003-0681-6775
Andrei Sinitsyn (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
E-mail: [email protected]
ORCID: 0000-0002-4654-325X
Alexander Dudin (Voronezh, Russian Federation). State archaeological Museum-reserve «Kostёnki». Yasny Proyezd, 2A, Voronezh, 394026, Russian Federation
E-mail: [email protected]
ORCID: 0000-0003-0579-5677
Alexander Bessudnov (Lipetsk, Russian Federation). Candidate of Historical Sciences. Lipetsk State Pedagogical University named after P. P. Semenov-Tyan-Shansky. Lenin St., 42, Lipetsk, 398020, Russian Federation
E-mail: [email protected]
ORCID: 0000-0002-6235-5451
Ekaterina Petrova (Saint Petersburg, Russian Federation). Candidate of Biological Sciences. Zoological Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences. Universitetskaya Emb., 1, Saint Petersburg, 199034, Russian Federation
E-mail: [email protected]
ORCID: 0000-0002-7322-8490
Gennady Khlopachev (Saint Petersburg, Russian Federation). Candidate of Historical Sciences. Peter The Great Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography (Kunstkamera) of Russian Academy of Sciences. Universitetskaya Emb., 3, Saint Petersburg, 199034, Russian Federation
E-mail: [email protected]
ORCID: 0000-0001-6649-7038
Mikhail Sablin (Saint Petersburg, Russian Federation). Doctor of Biological Sciences. Zoological Institute of Russian Academy of Sciences. Universitetskaya Emb., 1, Saint Petersburg, 199034, Russian Federation
E-mail: [email protected]
ORCID: 0000-0002-2773-7454