Latvia Macroregion.
Classification of Lubana Lowland Geoarchaeological Region pollen diagrams by their archaeological, palaeoeconomical, palaeoecological and chronostratigraphical imoprtance.
IA. Location of a geoarchaeological region:
- Geoarchaeological region: Lubana Lowland
- Country: Latvia
- Name of a macroregion: LATVIA
- Major political division: Latvia
- Minor political division:
- Latitude:
- Longitude:
- Altitude (m): 90-93 m above sea-level
- Elevation: 1-2 m above lake-level
IB. Advisors on geoarchaeological region materials or authors of monographies on the region (mn):
- Palynologists: Levkovskaya Galina (mn)
- Palaeobotanists: Jakubovskaya Tatiana
- Archaeologists: Lose Ilza (mn)
- Geologists or palaegeographist: Levkovskaya Galina (mn)
IC. Description of a Geoarchaeological region:
- Macrorelief description: Lowland of Lubana Lake in Eastern Latvia
- Physiogeographic description: Lowland on the groundwater level (before meliorations)
- Zonal type of vegetation: Subtaiga geobotanical zone
- Provincial type of vegetation: Baltic-Belarus province of the broad-mixed-spruce subtaiga forests
- Regional specifity of vegetation: Before meliorations wet marchlands covered most areas of the lowland
ID. Short archaeological characteristics of a geoarchaeological region:
- Main archaeological specifics of the region: About 30 buried sites of Mesolithic, Neolithic and Early Bronze Age epochs discovered under Subatlantic peat bog. They existed between 7500 - 3500 years B.P.
- Regional chronological borders of archaeological epochs by archaeologists: I.A. Loze (1988):
- a - border of Mesolithic and Early Neolithic: about 6,6 kyr B.P.
- b - border of Early and Middle Neolithic: about 5,3 kyr B.P.
- c - border of Middle and Late Neolithic: about 4,3 kyr B.P.
- d - border of Late Neolithic and Early Bronze: about 3,7 kyr B.P.
- Main Neolithic cultures, presented in the region: Narva, Comb and pit pottery, Corded ware and battle axes, Porous ware cultures