Determination of the source for prehistoric obsidian artifacts from the lower reaches of Kolyma River, Northeastern Siberia, Russia, and its wider implications

• Published in: Quaternary International
• Main Authors: Kuzmin, Yaroslav V., Alekseyev, Anatoly N., Dyakonov, Viktor M., Grebennikov, Andrei V., Glascock, Michael D.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: Russian
• Published: 2018
• Subjects: обсидиан; археологические памятники; Колыма; река; Северо-Восточная Сибирь; Россия; неолит; Чукотка; Arctic; Bering Strait; Kolyma; Okhotsk; Chukotka; kolyma river; okhotsk sea; ЧУКОТКА; Siberia
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2018.02.017; https://openrepository.ru/article?id=274869

Geochemical analysis of 102 obsidian artifacts from the lower reaches of the Kolyma River was performed to understand the provenance of the raw material; previously, there were no such studies in this region. Sites under investigation belong to the Arctic Neolithic, generally dated to ca. 6000e1500...