“…While our project lacks absolute dates for the Brynzenskaya local group, four recent dates from Costes , ti 4, Va ˘ratic 5-Holm, and Brînzeni 3-T , iganca (Rybicka 2019; Sîrbu et al 2020) fill in this gap very well. We omit one anomalously old outlier from Brînzeni 11(9) (Sîrbu et al 2020); while this site is ascribed to the Brynzenskaya local group, multiple habitational layers exist there, and the results of its ceramic assemblage have never been formally published (T , erna, Heghea 2017). Our dates for the Gordineshtskaya local group are directly comparable to other AMS bone dates from mortuary sites like Pocrovca 5-Dealul Munteanu and Gordines , ti-La Izvor (Sîrbu et al 2020), the kurgan complex at Pridnestrianskoe (Klochko et al 2015), as well as the settlements of Hanca ˘ut , i-La Frasin and Gordines , ti-Stînca Goala ˘(Rybicka 2019; Sîrbu et al 2020).…”