HIATUS IN PREHISTORIC CHRONOLOGY OF THE CIS-BAIKAL REGION, SIBERIA: PATTERN OR ARTIFACT?

摘要

The problem of a hiatus at about 6100-5300 BP (about 4900-4200 cal BC) in the prehistoric chronology of the Cis-Baikal region in Siberia is discussed. Based on a critical evaluation of existing evidence, there was no discontinuity found in the cultural sequence between the Kitoi and Serovo/Glazkovo complexes of the Neolithic, and the proposed "hiatus" may be an artifact based on underestimation of solid data. Conventional ~(14)C dates are presented that were generated in the 1980s to early 2000s for Cis-Baikal prehistoric burial grounds, and were later dated by the accelerator mass spectrometry (AMS).