KASHKALEBAGSH CULTURE OF FINAL NEOLITHIC OF SAKHALIN (TO THE COEXISTENCE OF TRADITIONS OF STONE AND PALAEOMETAL IN THE 1ST MIL. BC. IN THE ISLAND WORLD OF THE FAR EAST)
This article is about the excavations of the Kashkalebagsh-5 site in the Northern Sakhalin in 2008. As a result of those excavations, the original complex of 3 pit dwellings of the Final Neolithic was obtained. The burial of a human was found in one of the dwellings. This burial is the earliest knownup to now in Sakhalin. The calendar limits of the radiocarbon age of the excavated settlement are such as IХ-IV BC. The problems of coexistence and of the mutual influence of cultures of Stone and Palaeometal in the 1st mil. BC in the island world of the Far East.