Archaeology, Ethnology & Anthropology of Eurasia 39 (3) 2011

Annotation:  The Origin of Anatomically Modern Humans and their Behavior in Africa and Eurasia Newly Discovered Yarmukian and Wadi Rabah Sites in the Southern Jordan Valley and the Desert Fringe Periodization of Bronze Age Cultures in the Ob–Irtysh Forest-Steppe: The Stratigraphic Position of E Early Iron Age Burials in Southeastern Zhetysu: The Geoarchaeological Evidence Stratigraphy and Relative Chronology of the Neolithic Assemblages at the Koksharovsky Kholm Sanctua Pazyryk Burial at Khankarinsky Dol in the Northwestern Altai On the Origins of Nomadism in the Asian Steppes Medieval Sanctuary at Eshmess Cave in the Pechora Urals “Priest’s Staff” from Fort Nadym of the 16th–17th Centuries Wooden Pectoral Cross from a Burial at the Spassky Necropolis of the 18th Century in Irkutsk Latticed Petroglyphs of Mount Kalbak-Tash, Gorny Altai Food Symbolism in the Context of Komi (Zyrians) Wedding Rituals Zheltuga Republic: The Case of Social Development at the Chinese-Russian Border The Dentition of the Alakul People, with Reference to their Origin   

Stratigraphy and Relative Chronology of the Neolithic Assemblages at the Koksharovsky Kholm Sanctuary

A.F. Shorin and A.A. Shorina.

Both absolute and relative chronology suggest that the Koshkino and the Koksharovsky-Yuryinskoye (Kozlov) assemblages at the Koksharovsky Kholm sanctuary date back to the Early Neolithic. Their lower date is the late 6th – early 5th millennia BC, and their upper date is the late 5th – early 4th millennia BC, when they gave rise to the Late Neolithic Poludenka and Basiyanovsky assemblages. In the third quarter of the 4th millennium BC, Late Neolithic assemblages evolved into Chalcolithic ones.

Keywords: Trans-Urals, Neolithic, Koksharovsky Kholm sanctuary, ceramics, chronology.