Keeping the Frontier
Steps “Towards Neolithization” in the Eastern Gulf of Finland
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 13077320 |
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| Authors | Dmitry Gerasimov (0000-0002-3195-3715, Peter the Great's Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 7 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 1244-1257 |
| Publication date | 2021-01-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Open Archaeology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2300-6560 • E-ISSN: 2300-6560 |
| Publisher | De Gruyter Open (PUBLISHER • PL) |
| DOI | 10.1515/opar-2020-0192 |
| OpenAlex | W3210256870 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 24 |
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
Agriculture · Archaeology · Bronze Age · Ethnology · Frontier · Geography · Human settlement · Mesolithic · Population · Prehistory · Resistance (ecology · Settlement (finance · Sociocultural evolution · Sociology · Subsistence agriculture · Subsistence economy · Anthropology · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies · Demography · Historical and Archaeological Studies · History · Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology · Ecology
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