Institute for the History of Material Culture RAS
Pervobytnaia arkheologiia. Zhurnal mezhdistsiplinarnykh issledovanii
Prehistoric Archaeology. Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies
Pervobytnaia arkheologiia. Zhurnal mezhdistsiplinarnykh issledovanii
Prehistoric Archaeology. Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies

Tkach E. S., Malyutina A. A., Kulkova M. A. Corded Ware culture materials at Zedmar A site, South-Eastern Baltic

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Institute for the History of Material Culture RAS, 18 Dvortsovaya emb., St. Petersburg, 191186, Russia [evgeniia.tkach@gmail.com, kostylanya@yandex.ru]

Herzen State Pedagogical University, 48 Moyka emb., St. Petersburg, 191186, Russia [kulkova@mail.ru]

Abstract. The paper deals with the materials of Corded Ware Culture (CWC) from the Zedmar A site in South-Eastern Baltic, excavated by V. I. Timofeev in the 1970s. The archaeological collection includes stone artifacts, ceramics, as well as bone, antler and amber articles. The authors provide a description of the finds, and complement it with new data obtained be means of petrographic and use-were analyses. The comparison of the materials of Zedmar A with that of the neighboring regions makes it possible to distinguish at least two stages of the CWC settlement at the site. One of them can be dated to the beginning of the IIIrd millennium BC and the other to the second half of the third millennium BC.

Keywords: Corded Ware culture, South-Eastern Baltic, Neolithic, ceramics, bone, flint, use-wear analysis, petrography.

Received 20.08.2022, accepted 29.09.2022

DOI: 10.31600/2658-3925-2022-2-84-96

For citation: Tkach E. S., Malyutina A. A., Kulkova M. A. Corded Ware culture materials at Zedmar A site, South-Eastern Baltic. Prehistoric Archaeology. Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies. 2022 (2), 84–96 (in Russ.). DOI: 10.31600/2658-3925-2022-2-84-96

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