Colonization of Northern Eurasia by Modern Humans: Radiocarbon Chronology and Environment

Megafaunal extinction in the late Quaternary and the global overkill hypothesis

“…This process began before around 40,000 years ago (Pavlov et al 2001, Roebroeks 2001. Various Eurasian sites testify to a modem human presence at latitudes greater than 500 by 40,000 BP (Dolukhanov et aL 2002) and people had extended their range to within an iceflee, grassy European Arctic by 35,000 years ago (Pavlov et al 2001(Pavlov et al , 1994. Thus, in Europe and most of Asia, megafauna were exposed to a novel human predator over a relatively short period.…”

Northwest Siberian Khanty and Mansi in the junction of West and East Eurasian gene pools as revealed by uniparental markers

“…3,4 After the initial colonization, recurrent migrations from various directions have shaped the genetic composition of indigenous populations living in Siberia. 5 For the current Siberian mtDNA and Y chromosome variation, both Central Asian 6 -9 and East Asian origin has been proposed.…”

“The good, the bad, the weird”: Stone Age and Early Metal Period radiocarbon dates and chronology from the Karelian Isthmus, North-West Russia

“…population dynamics or neolithization (e.g. Kuzmin and Orlova, 2000;Lavento, 2004;Dolukhanov et al, 2002;Derevianko et al, 2004;Tallavaara et al, 2010;Timofeev and Zaitseva, 1991). However, the logic of using simply the rate of radiocarbon dates or the number of sites, for making interpretations of past population developments seems rather one-dimensional.…”