LATE MESOLITHIC SITE OF ZALIZNYCHNE IN THE LIGHT OF RECENT HYPOTHESES OF NEOLITHISATION OF NORTH-WESTERN PONTIC REGION
LATE MESOLITHIC SITE OF ZALIZNYCHNE IN THE LIGHT OF RECENT HYPOTHESES OF NEOLITHISATION OF NORTH-WESTERN PONTIC REGION

Summary/Abstract: The article examines one of the recent hypotheses of neolithization of North-Western Pontic region as the result of direct migration of population from the Fertile Crescent occurring due to a crucial climatic changes on the Pleistocene – Holocene boundary on the basis of data from Zaliznychne, the westernmost settlement of the Final Mesolithic occupation in the Ukrainian part of the Lower Danube region. Reconstruction of paleoenvironment and analysis of flint assemblages of the site, in particular, do not confirm broadly discussed in Ukrainian archaeology interpretation of these migrants as representatives of Grebeniki flint knapping tradition, providing at the same time no background for autochthonous version of neolithization of the region.

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