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The tempo of cultural change in the Kostenki Upper Paleolithic: further insights

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Douka,  Katerina
Archaeology, Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, Max Planck Society;

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Dinnis, R., Bessudnov, A. A., Reynolds, N., Khlopachev, G. A., Sablin, M., Sinitsyn, A., et al. (2021). The tempo of cultural change in the Kostenki Upper Paleolithic: further insights. Radiocarbon, 63(3): 2021.20, pp. 785-803. doi:10.1017/RDC.2021.20.


Cite as: https://hdl.handle.net/21.11116/0000-0008-DC18-6
Abstract
The Kostenki-Borshchevo site complex (Voronezh region, Russia) serves as the foundation of Eastern Europe’s Upper Paleolithic chronocultural framework. Here we present new radiocarbon dates for three Kostenki sites. Dates of ∼27.5–27 ka BP for Kostenki 15 suggest that its archaeological layer accumulated over a short period. These results help to confirm that the site is unrelated to Aurignacian assemblages. New dates for the Kostenki-Avdeevo Culture (KAC) Layer I of Kostenki 1 address the longstanding question of its chronology. Our results of ∼23.5–23 ka BP from different areas of the site are consistent with the layer’s accumulation over a short period. These results accord with recently obtained dates for Kostenki’s other KAC sites. Our younger results of ∼22.5–21 ka BP for different material from Layer III of Kostenki 21 are similarly consistent with a short chronological window for Kostenki’s KAC sites. Overall, this and other recent publications support the view that many Kostenki assemblages are chronologically distinct. This provides an important insight into the tempo of Upper Paleolithic cultural change.