Radiocarbon-based chronology of the Paleolithic in Siberia and its relevance to the peopling of the New World.

• Main Authors: Vasil'ev, Sergey A, Kuzmin, Yaroslav V, Orlova, Lyubov A, Dementiev, Vyacheslav N
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Radiocarbon 2002
• Subjects: 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; Yenisei River; Yenisey; Chukchi; Chukchi Peninsula; Dyuktai culture; Yakutia; yenisey river; Beringia; Siberia
• Online Access: https://journals.uair.arizona.edu/index.php/radiocarbon/article/view/4122

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...