Začetek neolitika na območju zgornjega toka reke Volge (Rusija)

The appearance of the Neolithic in the Upper Volga region is to be associated with infiltrations of notch-ware pottery-makers into the indigenous Mesolithic populations. Most likely the first vessels were imported into the region as final goods. The undistinguished differences between the Final Mesolithic and the Early Neolithic stone industries prove that this invasion was not a largescale one. This episode should be regarded as transitional from the Mesolithic to the Neolithic (i.e., as part of the process of Neolithisation). The non-ornamented/notch-ware ceramics tradition first established in the local cultural environment was soon after discontinued by the appearance of the populations with multi-compound comb-ware pottery about 6500-6400 uncal BP.Pojav neolitika na območju zgornjega toka reke Volge povezujemo z vdiranjem nosilcev lončenine z vrezi na območje domorodnih mezolitskih populacij. Najverjetneje so prve lončene posode na območje prinesli kot končne izdelke. Glede na podobnost izdelave pozno mezolitskih in zgodnje neolitskih kamnitih orodij sklepamo, da vdor ni bil obsežen. To obdobje obravnavamo kot obdobje tranzicije med mezolitikom in neolitikom (to je del procesa neolitizacije). Neokrašena keramika in keramika z vrezi, ki so se kot prve pojavile v lokalnem kulturnem okolju, je kmalu zamenjal pojav lončenine z veliko sestavinami in okrašen z glavničenjem v času 6500 do 6400 pred sedanjostjo