Stages of settlement of the Northern shore of lake Volgo in the Late Glacial period
Cultural layers of the Final Palaeolithic affiliation in well pronounced stratigraphic position in the deposits of the Bolling-Preborial frames were identified at the sites Baranova Gora, Podol III/1, Podol III/2 near the village Lanino (Tver district) at the northern shore the lake Volgo. Multidiscipline analytic studies made it possible: (1) to do the reconstruction of natural environment during the somensky interstadial, (2) to establish the level of the Volgo (205m BS), (3) to identify the mudslide, the flow of which partly destroyed the settlement. It appeared to be the background for the identification of chronological sequences, diversities of archaeological assemblages and for the reconstruction of the area settlement during Tardiglacial epoch. The first colonization wave is put in connection with the population of Epigravettian cultural tradition spread from the southeast. The distribution of Akulovo culture from the north-east is identified at Dryas II period. Manifestation of the Podol local archaeological culture of Bromme affiliation is the base for the reconstruction the population migration from the west-south-west around the subglacial zone in Allerod-Dryas III.