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Last Interglacial peopling of Siberia: the Middle Palaeolithic site Ust'-Izhul', the upper Yenisei area.
- Source :
- Boreas; Sep2003, Vol. 32 Issue 3, p506, 15p
- Publication Year :
- 2003
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Abstract
- Multidisciplinary Quaternary investigations in the Minusinsk Basin in the upper Yenisei River region and other southern Siberian continental depressions have produced evidence of prehistoric peopling pre-dating the last glacial stage (>100 ka BP). Abundant 'pebble tools' and bone artefacts exposed from eroded alluvia of the Yenisei River terraces indicate repeated occupation of this territory since the Middle Pleistocene. A new stage of expansion of the early human occupation habitat occurred around the last interglacial (OIS 5e) by a Middle Palaeolithic (Neanderthaloid?) population characterized by a core and flake stone industry and open-air occupation sites. The key camp/kill-processing site at Ust'-Izhul', dated to c . 125 ka BP and documenting complex behavioural activities, is so far the most complete in situ pre-Late Palaeolithic site found in Siberia. This unique record provides new insights into the timing and the palaeoenvironmental conditions of the Pleistocene colonization of north-central Asia. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- POPULATION
PALEONTOLOGY
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Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 03009483
- Volume :
- 32
- Issue :
- 3
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- Boreas
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 10466517
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1080/03009480310003397