The aim of the study is to identify universal features in most studied Eneolithic cultures forest zone (asbestos-tempered pottery culture such as Voynavolok, Orovnavolok and Palayguba, Volosovo, Choynovtin, Chuzhyayel, Garin, Bor cultures). territorial limits are from Finland Karelia Urals. chronological framework IVII thousand BC, since this territory date period. signs transition Neolithic in...

Preliminary data from newly excavated archaeological site no. 8 in Kraków-Górka Narodowa (southern Poland) show that two main phases of Early Neolithic occupation can be distinguished based on pottery finds, one associated with the Malice culture and other Pleszów- Modlnica group Lengyel culture. These are presented along lithic materials discussed context results archaeobotanical analysis. Cha...

It is well known that the Neolithic transition spread across Europe at a speed of about 1 km/yr. This result has been previously interpreted as a range expansion of the Neolithic driven mainly by demic diffusion (whereas cultural diffusion played a secondary role). However, a long-standing problem is whether this value (1 km/yr) and its interpretation (mainly demic diffusion) are characteristic...