A Critical Review of "the Mesolithic" in Relation to Siberian Archaeology

• Published in: ARCTIC
• Main Author: Dolitsky, Alexander B.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: The Arctic Institute of North America 1985
• Subjects: Adaptation (Biology); Animal behaviour; Animals; Archaeology; Artifacts; Climate change; Deglaciation; Economic conditions; Economic development; Fresh-water ecology; Fishing; Human bioclimatology; Human ecology; Human migration; Hunting; Land use; Pleistocene epoch; Psychology; Recent epoch; Salmoninae; Social change; Social conditions; Subsistence; Villages; Angara River region; Russian Federation; Angara River; Baykal; Lake; region; Yenisey River region; Yenisey River; Alaska; Southcentral; Arctic; Yenisey; Subarctic; yenisey river; Siberia
• Online Access: https://journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/arctic/article/view/65183

This paper explores the potential of the economic-ecological method based on the exploitation of fish resources for Mesolithic site identification, as compared to the recently popular yet indecisive technological-typological method, to predict the existence of "Mesolithic-like" subsistence...