Stratigraphy and Relative Chronology of the Neolithic Assemblages at the Koksharovsky Kholm Sanctuary

Both absolute and relative chronology suggest that the Koshkino and the Koksharovsky-Yuryinskoye (Kozlov) assemblages at the Koksharovsky Kholm sanctuary date back to the Early Neolithic. Their lower date is the late 6th –early 5th millennia BC, and their upper date is the late 5th – early 4th millennia BC, when they gave rise to the Late Neolithic Poludenka and Basiyanovsky assemblages. In the third quarter of the 4th millennium BC, Late Neolithic assemblages evolved into Chalcolithic ones.