Conference on the Evolution of the Neolithic Cultures of Eastern Europe

The conference was dedicated to the round anniversaries of the birth of three outstanding researchers of the Neolithic era in Eastern Europe – Maria Foss (1899), Nina Gourina (1909) and Arsen Siniuk (1939). The central topic of the conference was the issue of separating the archaeological cultures that existed on the territory of Eastern Europe in the 7th–3rd millennia BC. The researchers discussed questions of transitionary eras, the “dark ages” of the Stone and Bronze Age from which only rare evidence had come down to us. Presentations were made of the results of the latest archaeological discoveries that have completely changed our conceptions of a number of archaeological cultures and ancient societies.