Pages: 41-57
The article deals with the results of complex archaeological, stratigraphic, palynological, and geochemical studies conducted at the site of Eliseevitchi 1 in 2010—2013. Some unpublished records from the recently found personal archive of K. M. Polikarpovitch (stored in the Institute for History of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus) shed a new important light on the number of objects and structures excavated by him in 1946. Information on the microstratigraphy of cultural sediments in this area of the site is introduced as well. The analysis of the available evidence, including a representative series of newly obtained radiocarbon dates leads to the conclusion that Eliseevitchi 1 should be considered a multi-component Late Palaeolithic site intermittently occupied from ca. 17000—15000 to 12000 radiocarbon years ago.
Keywords: Eastern Europe, Desna river basin, Late Palaeolithic, Eliseevitchi 1 site, settlement structure, stratigraphy, micro-stratigraphy, radiocarbon dating, pollen analysis, geochemistry
Information about authors:
Gennady Khlopachev (Saint Petersburg, Russian Federation). Candidate of Historical Sciences. Peter The Great Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography (Kunstkamera) of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Universitetskaya Emb., 3, Saint Petersburg, 199034, Russian Federation
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Yurii Gribchenko (Moscow, Russian Federation). Candidate of Geographical Sciences. Institute of Geography, Russian Academy of Sciences. Staromonetnyi Line, 29, Moscow, 119017, Russian Federation
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Marianna Kulkova (Saint Petersburg, Russian Federation). Candidate of Geology and Mineralogy. Herzen State Pedagogical University of Russia. Moyka River Emb., 48, SRiver Embaint Petersburg, 191186, Russian Federation
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Tatyana Sapelko (Saint Petersburg, Russian Federation). Candidate of Geographical Sciences. Institute of Limnology, Russian Academy of Sciences. Sevastyanov St., 9, Saint Petersburg, 196105, Russian Federation
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