Theory of cultural resilience as an instrument for interpretation of cultural changes in North-Western Black Sea region on the Pleistocene-Holocene boundary under the global climate change

Abstract

Рассматривается теория упругости культуры как инструмент интерпретации культурных изменений в Северо-Западном Причерноморье на рубеже плейстоцена и голоцена под влиянием глобальных изменений климата.This article summarizes the contemporary postulates of the cultural resilience theory and examines the possibility of its application for the studies of human response to the global climate change in the Early Prehistoric societies. Evolution of the subject field of the resilience concept is demonstrated through the broad range of natural, social and environmental sciences. Subject of special attention of the author is the essence of cultural resilience notion and its application in the prehistoric studies, particularly, for the hunter-gatherers societies. The article particularly focuses on the transformation of livelihood and subsistence strategy of the population of the North-Western Black sea region which took place on the Pleistocene-Holocene boundary in connection with the Black Sea level rise and the coastline migration and possibility of its further explanation on the base of the cultural resilience theory. As the result, the culture resilience theory is conceptualized as an important component of the contemporary methodology of the conceptualization of human and nature interaction in historical retrospection, applied for explanation of the durability and the scale of changes in the mode of life, subsistence strategy and social networking background. In this context the special emphasis in the cultural resilience studies should be made on the everyday routine activities of prehistoric population, which helped this cultural group to survive without any principal transformations