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The Mesolithic-Neolithic transition in Ukraine: new radiocarbon determinations for the cemeteries of the Dnieper Rapids Region

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Malcolm C. Lillie
Malcolm C. Lillie*
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Department of Archaeology, University of Sheffield, Northgate House, West Street, Sheffield S1 4ET, England. M.C.Lillie@Geo.Hull.ac.uk
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Abstract

Large Mesolithic and Neolithic cemeteries that span the Mesolithic-Neolithic transition are scarce in Europe. As such, understanding the Mesolithic-Neolithic transition is rarely easy when using the direct evidence from carbon-dating of human remains. A new dating programme for the Ukrainian cemeteries of the Dnieper Rapids region throws up considerable discrepancies between typological seriation as a means to assign burials to the Mesolithic or to the Neolithic and the carbon evidence.

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Antiquity , Volume 72 , Issue 275 , March 1998 , pp. 184 - 188
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Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd. 1998

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