Radiocarbon chronology of the Neolithic sites from the Boreal zone of European Russia and environmental changes based on the last proxy data

This article discusses the possible correlation of the Neolithisation of Western Europe with the environmental changes. The database of the Neolithic sites developed by the Radiocarbon Laboratory of the Institute for History of Material Culture has been used in the assessment of the frequency of radiocarbon-dated sites. Various isotopic methods have been used for the estimation of Holocene environmental changes. The comparative analysis reveals the correlation of maxima and minima in the distribution of radiocarbon-dated sites with the fluctuations of lake-level, solar and cosmic ray activities, oxygen isotopes and other environmental records.