On the Origin of the Neolithic Population of Northeast Asia
A hypothesis regarding the origin of certain Neolithic groups of Yakutia is put forward. Neolithic crania from that region are Mongoloid and exhibit traits peculiar to present-day Tungus as well as to Chukchi and Eskoaleuts. Their distinctive feature is high braincase, seen nowhere else in eastern S...
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| Format: | Article in Journal/Newspaper |
| Language: | Russian English |
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IAET SB RAS
2016
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| Online Access: | https://journal.archaeology.nsc.ru/jour/article/view/207 |
| Summary: | A hypothesis regarding the origin of certain Neolithic groups of Yakutia is put forward. Neolithic crania from that region are Mongoloid and exhibit traits peculiar to present-day Tungus as well as to Chukchi and Eskoaleuts. Their distinctive feature is high braincase, seen nowhere else in eastern Siberia at any time. Samples associated with the Ymyiakhtakh, Belkachi, and Boisman cultures were compared using multivariate analysis. Based on skeletal and environmental evidence it is concluded that Neolithic inhabitants of northeastern Asia were migrants from Beringia – a land that had been submerged following global warming and the melting of glaciers in the Late Pleistocene and Early Holocene. Beringians were forced to migrate to adjacent areas. Cranially, they displayed a combination of traits peculiar to Pacific Mongoloids and were likely related to the Boisman people, who lived 7–5 ka BP along the Sea of Japan coast from northern Korea to Peter the Great Bay. |
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