Continental European Plain

This chapter focuses on presenting changes in the material culture from the ninth–fourth millennia bc, in the Northern and Eastern European Plains territory. Most of the data is based on literature and our own analyses carried out on selected C14 dated sites. We focus on the diversity in the lithic materials and the technology of blade production. The tool typology and lithic technology are characterized within the archaeological cultures Komornica, Butovo/Kunda, Kudlaevka, Chojnice-Pieńki, and Janisławice. This nomenclature is still used in the literature, but the perception of the cultures has shifted from perceiving them as societies to treating them as basic terminology to describe the most common groups of Mesolithic materials.