Mesolithic Sites of the Kildinsky Strait and the Problem of Settling the Kola Peninsula in the Stone Age

• Published in: Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. History
• Main Authors: Murashkin, Anton I., Kolpakov, Evgeny M.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: Russian
• Published: St Petersburg State University 2019
• Subjects: Kola peninsula; Northern Fennoscandia; Mesolithic; colonization; Komsa culture; Arctic; Barents Sea; Kola Peninsula; Komsa; Fennoscandia; Kildin; kola peninsula
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.21638/11701/spbu02.2019.214; http://hdl.handle.net/11701/16349

The routes and the time of the initial colonization of Northern Fennoscandia are among the most actively discussed topics of the Arctic archeology. In the last decade the KolAE IHMC RAS excavated four Mesolithic sites of Gusiny 4–7 on the southern coast of Kildin Strait, Barents Sea. The sites are l...