Время появления производящего хозяйства в Нижнем Поволжье
When Food Producing Economy Appeared in the Lower Volga Region

Summary/Abstract: The article aims to establish a reliable chronology for appearance of production economy in the Lower Volga region. The authors examine Neolithic and Eneolithic sites containing evidence of cattle breeding, and offer corrected osteological definitions, including based on materials of 2014—2017 research. They support all complexes with a set of radiocarbon dates, including those obtained in 2016—2017, and for the first time, present the results of lipid analysis for the Eastern European Eneolithic materials. In conclusion, they maintain that production economy emerged in the Caspian culture complexes in the Lower Volga region in about 5200 BC.

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