Diring Yuriakh: A Lower Paleolithic Site in Central Siberia

Waters, Michael R.; Forman, Steven L.; Pierson, James

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“…Siberia has been inhabited by hominins for hundreds of thousands of years, with some of the known archeological sites being older than 260,000 yr (Waters et al 1997). Neanderthals inhabited Europe and Siberia until ∼40,000 yr ago (40 kya) (Hublin 2009), and anatomically modern humans expanded to these regions 60-40 kya (Hublin 2012).…”

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Reconstructing genetic history of Siberian and Northeastern European populations

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Siberia and Northwestern Russia are home to over 40 culturally and linguistically diverse indigenous ethnic groups, yet genetic variation and histories of peoples from this region are largely uncharacterized. We present deep whole-genome sequencing data (∼38×) from 28 individuals belonging to 14 distinct indigenous populations from that region. We combined these data sets with additional 32 modern-day and 46 ancient human genomes to reconstruct genetic histories of several indigenous Northern Eurasian populations. We found that Siberian and East Asian populations shared 38% of their ancestry with a 45,000-yr-old Ust’-Ishim individual who was previously believed to have no modern-day descendants. Western Siberians trace 57% of their ancestry to ancient North Eurasians, represented by the 24,000-yr-old Siberian Mal'ta boy MA-1. Eastern Siberian populations formed a distinct sublineage that separated from other East Asian populations ∼10,000 yr ago. In addition, we uncovered admixtures between Siberians and Eastern European hunter-gatherers from Samara, Karelia, Hungary, and Sweden (from 8000–6600 yr ago); Yamnaya people (5300–4700 yr ago); and modern-day Northeastern Europeans. Our results provide new insights into genetic histories of Siberian and Northeastern European populations and evidence of ancient gene flow from Siberia into Europe.

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“…In the upper excavations, the stratigraphic range of both units is very likely to be much wider than in the lower excavations. This hypothesis is supported by the results of TL dating of sediments by Waters et al (1997). However, the stratigraphic position of the cultural layer in the upper excavations remains unclear.…”

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“…Other site investigators (Mochanov, 1992(Mochanov, , 1993Waters et al, 1997) have suggested that a single, continuous cultural stratum extended from the lower section towards the east, where it is overlain by Middle and Late Pleistocene deposits (Figures 3 and 4) (layers 6 -13 in Mochanov [1992Mochanov [ , 1993; units IIIa -IIIe in Waters et al [1997]). …”

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“…Here, the focus will be on details salient to the stratigraphy of Diring. These details are of consequence in evaluating the TL dates published by Waters et al (1997). Ultimately, it has been claimed (Ackerman and Carlson, 1991) that the age of the Diring site has important implications for the peopling of Northern Asia and, potentially, of North America.…”

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“…Subsequently, Waters et al (1997) provided significant new data on the age of Diring, including 10 thermoluminescence (TL) dates. Their study fails, however, to take into account vital information on site stratigraphy and artifact associations, which has previously only been published in Russian (Kamaletdinov and Zigert, 1989;Alekseev et al, 1990;Ranov and Tseitlin, 1991;Mochanov, 1992;Ranov, 1992).…”

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More about Diring Yuriakh: Unsolved geoarchaeological problems at a ?lower? paleolithic site in central Siberia

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Krivonogov

1999

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The geoarchaeology of Diring Yuriakh, perhaps the oldest firmly documented archaeological site in Siberia, at more than 260,000 years old, is important for modeling the peopling of Northern Asia and North America. This article focuses on some important details about the stratigraphy of the Diring site, which have previously only been published in Russian. There are two major geoarchaeological problems at Diring. First, the stratigraphic position of the layer containing the supposed pebble tools (relative to Middle Pleistocene sediments at the site) is not well defined. Second, there remains doubt as to the nature of the association between the majority of the Diring artifacts and the sediments dated to between ca. 267,000 and 366,000 years ago. Until these problems are resolved, the proposed Lower Paleolithic dating for the Diring site must be considered as provisional. © 1999 John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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Environmental hypotheses of hominin evolution

Potts

1998

Am. J. Phys. Anthropol.

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The study of human evolution has long sought to explain major adaptations and trends that led to the origin of Homo sapiens. Environmental scenarios have played a pivotal role in this endeavor. They represent statements or, more commonly, assumptions concerning the adaptive context in which key hominin traits emerged. In many cases, however, these scenarios are based on very little if any data about the past settings in which early hominins lived. Several environmental hypotheses of human evolution are presented in this paper. Explicit test expectations are laid out, and a preliminary assessment of the hypotheses is made by examining the environmental records of Olduvai, Turkana, Olorgesailie, Zhoukoudian, Combe Grenal, and other hominin localities. Habitat-specific hypotheses have prevailed in almost all previous accounts of human adaptive history. The rise of African dry savanna is often cited as the critical event behind the development of terrestrial bipedality, stone toolmaking, and encephalized brains, among other traits. This savanna hypothesis has been countered recently by the woodland/forest hypothesis, which claims that Pliocene hominins had evolved in and were primarily attracted to closed habitats. The ideas that human evolution was fostered by cold habitats in higher latitudes or by seasonal variations in tropical and temperate zones also have their proponents. An alternative view, the variability selection hypothesis, states that large disparities in environmental conditions were responsible for important episodes of adaptive evolution. The resulting adaptations enhanced behavioral versatility and ultimately ecological diversity in the human lineage. Global environmental records for the late Cenozoic and specific records at hominin sites show the following: 1) early human habitats were subject to large-scale remodeling over time; 2) the evidence for environmental instability does not support habitat-specific explanations of key adaptive changes; 3) the range of environmental change over time was more extensive and the tempo far more prolonged than allowed by the seasonality hypothesis; and 4) the variability selection hypothesis is strongly supported by the persistence of hominins through long sequences of environmental remodeling and the origin of important adaptations in periods of wide habitat diversity. Early bipedality, stone transport, diversification of artifact contexts, encephalization, and enhanced cognitive and social functioning all may reflect adaptations to environmental novelty and highly varying selective contexts.

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Diring Yuriakh: A Lower Paleolithic Site in Central Siberia

Cited by 61 publications

References 9 publications

Reconstructing genetic history of Siberian and Northeastern European populations

Reconstructing genetic history of Siberian and Northeastern European populations

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