Stages in the Late Pleistocene and Holocene Peopling of Lake Bolshoye Ushkovskoye Shore, Kamchatka

• Published in: Archaeology, Ethnology & Anthropology of Eurasia
• Main Author: I. Y. Ponkratova
• Other Authors: I would like to thank T. Goebel and M. Waters (USA), P. Grootes (Germany), J. Plicht (the Netherlands), Y. V Kuzmin (Russia), E.V. Parkhomchuk (Russia), V.V. Parkhomchuk (Russia), and S.A. Rastigeev (Russia) for their help in obtaining radiocarbon dates, and V.V. Ponomareva, M.M. Pevzner, and I.V. Melekestsev for their consultations on identifying volcanic ashes. Special thanks to I. Klausen, M. Weber, and A. Sigloff (Germany) for the joint work in the field and in the laboratory
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: IAET SB RAS 2020
• Subjects: Old Itelmen culture; Paleolithic-Neolithic transition; Neolithic; Tarya culture; Kamchatka Peninsula; Arctic; Itelmen; Kamchatka
• Online Access: https://journal.archaeology.nsc.ru/jour/article/view/892; https://doi.org/10.17746/1563-0110.2020.48.1.041-051

This article outlines the findings from excavations at the Ushki sites (four multi-layered and one single-layered), near Lake Bolshoye Ushkovskoye, on the Kamchatka Peninsula. The sites were discovered and excavated by N.N. Dikov and M.A. Dikova in 1961-1990. Multidisciplinary studies conducted at U...