Keeping the Frontier: Steps “Towards Neolithization” in the Eastern Gulf of Finland

This article is an attempt to understand the driving forces behind the process of Neolithization in the Eastern Europe Forest zone, where the consumption economy existed till the Bronze or even till the Early Iron Age. Main peculiarities of the sociocultural development in the eastern part of the Gu...

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spelling oai:doaj.org-article:9de01323644d48db98cfa614fd17d4cb2021-12-05T14:11:00ZKeeping the Frontier: Steps “Towards Neolithization” in the Eastern Gulf of Finland2300-656010.1515/opar-2020-0192https://doaj.org/article/9de01323644d48db98cfa614fd17d4cb2021-10-01T00:00:00Zhttps://doi.org/10.1515/opar-2020-0192https://doaj.org/toc/2300-6560This article is an attempt to understand the driving forces behind the process of Neolithization in the Eastern Europe Forest zone, where the consumption economy existed till the Bronze or even till the Early Iron Age. Main peculiarities of the sociocultural development in the eastern part of the Gulf of Finland region (EGF) on the transition from Mesolithic to farming societies (sixth – first ka. BC) are discussed in relation to the changes in material culture, subsistence strategy, communication system and settlement pattern. The process of neolithization lasted there for several thousand years. Overview of the dynamics of the social and cultural development in the region revealed several phases of substantial changes in archeological materials (presumably reflecting considerable sociocultural changes). These changes happened later than in the neighboring territories and were preceded by dramatic environmental transformations that affected prehistoric communities in the coastal zone. For the population of the region, innovations could be considered as not “steps toward,” but “retreat in the face of” neolithization. Resistance of the population of EGF to the innovations could be based on environmental conditions that were extremely favorable for hunter–gatherers’ subsistence, but made farming (especially early farming) rather risky.Gerasimov Dmitriy V.De Gruyterarticleneolithicearly potteryhunter–gatherer subsistencegulf of finlandladoga lakeArchaeologyCC1-960ENOpen Archaeology, Vol 7, Iss 1, Pp 1244-1257 (2021)
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topic neolithic
early pottery
hunter–gatherer subsistence
gulf of finland
ladoga lake
Archaeology
CC1-960
spellingShingle neolithic
early pottery
hunter–gatherer subsistence
gulf of finland
ladoga lake
Archaeology
CC1-960
Gerasimov Dmitriy V.
Keeping the Frontier: Steps “Towards Neolithization” in the Eastern Gulf of Finland
description This article is an attempt to understand the driving forces behind the process of Neolithization in the Eastern Europe Forest zone, where the consumption economy existed till the Bronze or even till the Early Iron Age. Main peculiarities of the sociocultural development in the eastern part of the Gulf of Finland region (EGF) on the transition from Mesolithic to farming societies (sixth – first ka. BC) are discussed in relation to the changes in material culture, subsistence strategy, communication system and settlement pattern. The process of neolithization lasted there for several thousand years. Overview of the dynamics of the social and cultural development in the region revealed several phases of substantial changes in archeological materials (presumably reflecting considerable sociocultural changes). These changes happened later than in the neighboring territories and were preceded by dramatic environmental transformations that affected prehistoric communities in the coastal zone. For the population of the region, innovations could be considered as not “steps toward,” but “retreat in the face of” neolithization. Resistance of the population of EGF to the innovations could be based on environmental conditions that were extremely favorable for hunter–gatherers’ subsistence, but made farming (especially early farming) rather risky.
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title Keeping the Frontier: Steps “Towards Neolithization” in the Eastern Gulf of Finland
title_short Keeping the Frontier: Steps “Towards Neolithization” in the Eastern Gulf of Finland
title_full Keeping the Frontier: Steps “Towards Neolithization” in the Eastern Gulf of Finland
title_fullStr Keeping the Frontier: Steps “Towards Neolithization” in the Eastern Gulf of Finland
title_full_unstemmed Keeping the Frontier: Steps “Towards Neolithization” in the Eastern Gulf of Finland
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