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Radiocarbon-Based Chronology of the Paleolithic in Siberia and Its Relevance to the Peopling of the New World

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 July 2016

Sergey A Vasil'ev ,
Yaroslav V Kuzmin ,
Lyubov A Orlova  and
Vyacheslav N Dementiev
Sergey A Vasil'ev
Affiliation:
Institute for the Material Culture History, Russian Academy of Sciences, 18 Dvortsovaia Emb., St.-Petersburg 191186, Russia. Email: anna@neuro.pri.pu.ru
Yaroslav V Kuzmin
Affiliation:
Pacific Institute of Geography, Far Eastern Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 7 Radio St., Vladivostok 690041, Russia. Email: ykuzmin@tig.dvo.ru
Lyubov A Orlova
Affiliation:
Institute of Geology, Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 3 Koptyug Ave., Novosibirsk 630090, Russia. Email: orlova@uiggm.nsc.ru
Vyacheslav N Dementiev
Affiliation:
Center for GIS Technologies, Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 3 Koptyug Ave., Novosibirsk 630090, Russia. Email: dementev@uiggm.nsc.ru
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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 chronolgical framework for human colonization of Northern Asia. There are 446 14C 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 14C-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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Radiocarbon , Volume 44 , Issue 2 , 2002 , pp. 503 - 530
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Copyright © 2002 The Arizona Board of Regents on behalf of the University of Arizona 

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