Pages: 93-103 | DOI: https://doi.org/10.55086/sp25293103
This paper presents the analysis results of the species composition found in sites dating to the 7th—5th millennia BCE. These sites are either monocultural, or multicultural where the cultural layers belonging to different periods are separated from each other by sterile layers. As a result, we were able to trace the variation through time in the ratios of game/domestic animals in the Neolithic — Eneolithic periods. In the Early Neolithic, the kulan was the main game animal. During the Middle and Late Neolithic, hunting was diversified and such animals as saiga, aurochs, and horse, along with kulan, became the main target species. In the Early Eneolithic, the first domestic animals, i.e. sheep and goats, appeared. Cattle appeared in the Late Eneolithic. The share of game animals during this period sharply decreased, even to the point of the complete disappearance of such species as aurochs and horse.
Keywords: Lower Volga region, Neolithic, Eneolithic, dynamics of animal ratio, commercial animal species, domestic animal species
Information about authors:
Aleksandr Vybornov (Samara, Russian Federation). Doctor of Historical Sciences. Samara State University of Social Sciences and Education. Maxim Gorky St., 65/67, Samara, 443099, Russian Federation
E-mail: [email protected]
ORCID: 0000-0002-3893-2933
Natalia Doga (Samara, Russian Federation). Samara State University of Social Sciences and Education. Maxim Gorky St., 65/67, Samara, 443099, Russian Federation
E-mail: [email protected]
ORCID: 0000-0003-0551-4345
Pavel Kosintsev (Yekaterinburg, Russian Federation). Candidate of Biological Sciences. Institute for Ecology of Plants and Animals, Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences. 8th March St., 202, Yekaterinburg, 620144, Russian Federation; Ural Federal University. Mira St., 19, Yekaterinburg, 620002, Russian Federation
E-mail: [email protected]
ORCID: 0000-0002-0973-7426
Pavel Kuznetsov (Samara, Russian Federation). Candidate of Historical Sciences. Samara State University of Social Sciences and Education. Maxim Gorky St., 65/67, Samara, 443099, Russian Federation
E-mail: [email protected]
ORCID: 0000-0002-4898-5350
Roslyakova Natalya (Samara, Russian Federation). Candidate of Historical Sciences. Samara State University of Social Sciences and Education. Maxim Gorky St., 65/67, Samara, 443099, Russian Federation
E-mail: [email protected]
ORCID: 0000-0002-1888-2713