Determination of the source for prehistoric obsidian artifacts from the lower reaches of Kolyma River

• 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; Okhotsk; Bering Strait; Kolyma; Chukotka; kolyma river; okhotsk sea; ЧУКОТКА; Siberia
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2018.02.017; http://vital.lib.tsu.ru/vital/access/manager/Repository/vtls:000673068

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 BP....