Late Neolithic of the Kamchatka peninsula

Basing on the analysis of tephrochronology and radiocarbon dates of the archaeological sites of Kamchatka, the author specifies the chronological framework of the Late Neolithic epoch on the Kamchatka Peninsula in the range of ~ 50-1020. The article studies the features of the material complexes of the Late Neolithic sites that allows making a suggestion on the continuity of economy based on river and sea fishing, land hunting and gathering, traditions of building land and semi-underground dwellings, totemistic beliefs, which were typical for the representatives of the Tarinskaya archaeological culture in the Middle Neolithic. Despite the ecological disaster caused by the consequences of the eruption of the Ksudach volcano around 1800 BC, the population with a highly specialized complex hunter-gatherer economy managed to maintain its integrity.