The article discusses the driving forces and mechanisms of the massive spread of amber in the forested zone of eastern Europe in the III millennium BC. Study of spatial-chronological aspects of this phenomenon has allowed proposing that the increase of exchange of prestigious items at the end of the Neolithic period was caused by an increase of the role of social interaction in adaptive strategies of hunter-gatherers in the forested zone of eastern Europe.
ТАТЬЯНА АНАТОЛЬЕВНА ВАСИЛЬЕВА кандидат исторических наук, научный сотрудник сектора археологии Института языка, литературы и истории Федеральное государственное бюджетное учреждение науки Федеральный исследовательский центр «Карельский научный центр Российской академии наук» (Петрозаводск, Российская Федерация
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