Provider: Moravian Museum, Brno, Czech Republic

TY  - JOUR
JO  - Anthropologie (Brno)
TI  - Geoarchaeology of the Palaeolithic in the East European Plain
AU  - Velichko AA
AU  - Gribchenko YN
AU  - Kurenkova EI
Y1  - 1997
VL  - 35
IS  - 2
PB  - Moravian Museum, Brno, Czech Republic
SN  - 0323-1119
SP  - 215
EP  - 232
KW  - Russian Plain
KW  - Acheulian
KW  - Mousterian
KW  - Late Paleolithic
KW  - Pleistocene
KW  - Geochronology
KW  - Paleoecology
KW  - Natural habitat
N2  - 
N2  - The process of primary peopling of the East European Plain has begun at Acheulian time. The Acheulian campsites very seldom occur in the territory, being located only in its southernmost part. During the Middle Paleolithic cultural stage, the south-western part of the Plain was permanently inhabited. All Mousterian sites existed at the beginning of the Valdai Ice Age. Mousterian hunters have occasionally penetrated further to the north, though such invasions were irregular. Large-scale peopling of the Russian Plain began in the Late Paleolithic, during the second half of the Valdai epoch (starting at 30-35 ky B. P.), Three main stages of Late Paleolithic peopling may be distinguished: 1) 32-24 ky (the Bryansk Interstadial); 2) 23-16 ky (the time span including the maximum cooling in the periglacial zone), 3) 15-11 ky (the late last glacial). The human population was concentrated within three main river catchment basins of the Russian Plain - the lower and middle Dniester, the middle and upper Dnieper, and the middle Don Rivers.
ER  -