Institute of Archaeology RAS, 19 Dm. Ulyanova St., Moscow, 117292, Russia [k_gavrilov.68@mail.ru]
Abstract. The article is devoted to the problem of transition from the Middle to the Late Upper Paleolithic in the central part of the East European Plain during the Last Glacial Maximum. The comparison of radiocarbon dates, typological characteristics of stone industries, as well as some ivory and bone artifacts suggests that the hypothesis according to which the area in question was depopulated after the beginning of the Last Glacial Maximum and recolonized again only after its end should be questioned. The author puts forward and substantiates an alternative hypothesis that the Upper Paleolithic culture of the Central East European Plain continued to develop during the LGM, as is evidenced by cultural continuity between Gravettian and Epigravettian.
Keywords: Upper Paleolithic, Russian Plain, Gravettian, Epi/Final-Aurignacian, Epigravettian, Last Glacial Maximum.
Received 15.02.2023, accepted 22.03.2023
DOI: 10.31600/2658-3925-2023-1-47-67
For citation: Gavrilov K. N. Transition from the Middle to the Late Upper Paleolithic in the Central Russian Plain: recolonization or autochthonous development? Prehistoric Archaeology. Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies. 2023 (1), 47–67. (in Russ.). DOI: 10.31600/2658-3925-2023-1-47-67
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