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Record Nr.

UNINA9910806164803321

Titolo

Prehistoric Ukraine : from the first hunters to the first farmers / / Malcolm C. Lillie, Inna D. Potekhina, Chelsea E. Budd

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Philadelphia : , : Oxbow Books, , [2020]

©2020

ISBN

1-78925-459-0

1-78925-461-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (354 pages) : illustrations

Disciplina

939.51

Soggetti

Mesolithic period

Ukraine Antiquities

Ukraine

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Introduction / Malcolm Lillie and Inna Potekhina -- 1. A brief outline of the study of the Lower and the Middle Palaeolithic of Ukraine: main trends, discussions and results / Vadim N. Stepanchuk -- 2. The Upper Palaeolithic and Mesolithic Periods / Leonid Zaliznyak -- 3. Landscape change, Human-landscape interactions and Societal developments in the Mesolithic period / Leonid Zaliznyak -- 4. The Neolithic Period in Ukraine (VII-III millennia BC) / Nicholas Tovkailo -- 5. The Prehistoric Populations of Ukraine: Population dynamics and group composition / Inna Potekhina -- 6. Radiocarbon dating of sites in the Dnieper Region and Western Ukraine / Malcolm Lillie, Chelsea Budd and Inna Potekhina -- 7. Palaeopathology of the Prehistoric Populations of Ukraine / Malcolm Lillie -- 8. The Prehistoric Populations of Ukraine: Stable Isotope studies of fisher-hunter-forager and pastoralist-incipient farmer dietary pathways / Chelsea Budd and Malcolm Lillie -- 9. The Adoption of Agriculture: Archaeobotanical Studies and the Earliest Evidence for Domesticated Plants / Giedre Motuzaite Matuzeviciute -- 10. The Genetic Landscape of Present-Day Ukraine from the Early Holocene to the Early Metal Ages / Alexey G. Nikitin -- 11. An Overview of Ukrainian Prehistory: Future Research Directions / Inna Potekhina



and Malcolm Lillie.

Sommario/riassunto

This volume covers the prehistory of Ukraine from the Lower Palaeolithic through to the end of the Neolithic periods. The chapters provide up-to-date overviews of all aspects of prehistoric culture development in Ukraine and present details of the key sites and finds for the periods studied.--