Radiocarbon-based chronology of the Paleolithic in Siberia and its relevance to the peopling of the New World.
The territory of Siberia is of crucial importance for the study of early human dispersal and the peopling of the New World. A Siberian Paleolithic Radiocarbon Database has been compiled. The Database allows us to compile a chronological framework for human colonization of Northern Asia. There are 44...
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ftunivarizonaojs:oai:journals.uair.arizona.edu:article/4122 2023-05-15T15:54:38+02:00 Radiocarbon-based chronology of the Paleolithic in Siberia and its relevance to the peopling of the New World. Vasil'ev, Sergey A Kuzmin, Yaroslav V Orlova, Lyubov A Dementiev, Vyacheslav N 2002-01-01 application/pdf https://journals.uair.arizona.edu/index.php/radiocarbon/article/view/4122 eng eng Radiocarbon https://journals.uair.arizona.edu/index.php/radiocarbon/article/view/4122/3547 https://journals.uair.arizona.edu/index.php/radiocarbon/article/view/4122 Radiocarbon; Vol 44, No 2 (2002); 503-530 0033-8222 Beringia;Yenisei River;Altai Mountains;Lake Baikal;Stone Age;Paleolithic;migration;glacial environment;artifacts;paleoenvironment;archaeology;microfossils;miospores;palynomorphs;pollen;paleoclimatology;Pleistocene;Russian Federation;Siberia;upper Pleistocene;Commonwealth of Independent States;bones;Asia;Cenozoic;Quaternary;C 14;carbon;isotopes;radioactive isotopes;absolute age info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion Peer-reviewed Article 2002 ftunivarizonaojs 2020-11-14T17:53:01Z The territory of Siberia is of crucial importance for the study of early human dispersal and the peopling of the New World. A Siberian Paleolithic Radiocarbon Database has been compiled. The Database allows us to compile a chronological framework for human colonization of Northern Asia. There are 446 (super 14) C dates for 13 Middle and 111 Upper Paleolithic sites older than around 12,000 BP. Seventeen percent of the dates were obtained by the accelerator mass spectrometry (AMS) technique, and the remaining 83% are conventional. From the viewpoint of the spatial distribution of the (super 14) C-dated sites, the majority of these are located at the Yenisey River Basin, Transbaikal, and the Altai Mountains. The general outline of the Upper Paleolithic colonization of Siberia is given here. The earliest traces of modern human occupation are dated to around 43,000-39,000 BP in the southern part of Siberia. It seems that by around 13,000 BP, almost all of northern Asia, including the extreme northeastern Siberia had been colonized by modern humans. We discuss some controversial problems that have provoked heated debates in current Russian archaeology. Notable among these are the surprisingly early AMS dates for the Early Upper Paleolithic, the age of the Dyuktai culture of Yakutia, the problem of human presence in Siberia at the time of the Last Glacial Maximum (20,000-18,000 BP), and the timing of the initial settling of the Chukchi Peninsula and northeastern Siberia. Article in Journal/Newspaper Chukchi Chukchi Peninsula Dyuktai culture Yakutia yenisey river Beringia Siberia Journals at the University of Arizona Yenisei River ENVELOPE(84.738,84.738,69.718,69.718) Yenisey ENVELOPE(82.680,82.680,71.828,71.828) |
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Beringia;Yenisei River;Altai Mountains;Lake Baikal;Stone Age;Paleolithic;migration;glacial environment;artifacts;paleoenvironment;archaeology;microfossils;miospores;palynomorphs;pollen;paleoclimatology;Pleistocene;Russian Federation;Siberia;upper Pleistocene;Commonwealth of Independent States;bones;Asia;Cenozoic;Quaternary;C 14;carbon;isotopes;radioactive isotopes;absolute age Vasil'ev, Sergey A Kuzmin, Yaroslav V Orlova, Lyubov A Dementiev, Vyacheslav N Radiocarbon-based chronology of the Paleolithic in Siberia and its relevance to the peopling of the New World. |
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The territory of Siberia is of crucial importance for the study of early human dispersal and the peopling of the New World. A Siberian Paleolithic Radiocarbon Database has been compiled. The Database allows us to compile a chronological framework for human colonization of Northern Asia. There are 446 (super 14) C dates for 13 Middle and 111 Upper Paleolithic sites older than around 12,000 BP. Seventeen percent of the dates were obtained by the accelerator mass spectrometry (AMS) technique, and the remaining 83% are conventional. From the viewpoint of the spatial distribution of the (super 14) C-dated sites, the majority of these are located at the Yenisey River Basin, Transbaikal, and the Altai Mountains. The general outline of the Upper Paleolithic colonization of Siberia is given here. The earliest traces of modern human occupation are dated to around 43,000-39,000 BP in the southern part of Siberia. It seems that by around 13,000 BP, almost all of northern Asia, including the extreme northeastern Siberia had been colonized by modern humans. We discuss some controversial problems that have provoked heated debates in current Russian archaeology. Notable among these are the surprisingly early AMS dates for the Early Upper Paleolithic, the age of the Dyuktai culture of Yakutia, the problem of human presence in Siberia at the time of the Last Glacial Maximum (20,000-18,000 BP), and the timing of the initial settling of the Chukchi Peninsula and northeastern Siberia. |
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Vasil'ev, Sergey A Kuzmin, Yaroslav V Orlova, Lyubov A Dementiev, Vyacheslav N |
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Vasil'ev, Sergey A Kuzmin, Yaroslav V Orlova, Lyubov A Dementiev, Vyacheslav N |
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Vasil'ev, Sergey A |
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Radiocarbon-based chronology of the Paleolithic in Siberia and its relevance to the peopling of the New World. |
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Radiocarbon-based chronology of the Paleolithic in Siberia and its relevance to the peopling of the New World. |
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Radiocarbon-based chronology of the Paleolithic in Siberia and its relevance to the peopling of the New World. |
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Radiocarbon-based chronology of the Paleolithic in Siberia and its relevance to the peopling of the New World. |
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Radiocarbon-based chronology of the Paleolithic in Siberia and its relevance to the peopling of the New World. |
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radiocarbon-based chronology of the paleolithic in siberia and its relevance to the peopling of the new world. |
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Radiocarbon |
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Chukchi Chukchi Peninsula Dyuktai culture Yakutia yenisey river Beringia Siberia |
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Chukchi Chukchi Peninsula Dyuktai culture Yakutia yenisey river Beringia Siberia |
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Radiocarbon; Vol 44, No 2 (2002); 503-530 0033-8222 |
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