Early Yakut Burials of the Fourteenth–Seventeenth Centuries

Bravina, R.I.; Дьяконов, В. М.; Bagashev, A.N.; Razhev, Dmitry; Пошехонова, О.Е.; Slepchenko, Sergey Mikhailovich; Алексеева, Е. А.; Кузьмин, Я В; Hodgins, Greg

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“…The main sources for this study are summary publications (Kuzmin 2010;Pitul'ko and Pavlova 2016), supplemented by new data (Khassanov and Savinetsky 2006;Alekseyev and Dyakonov 2009;Lebedintsev and Kuzmin 2010;Csonka 2014;Gusev 2014;Kuzmin and Dikova 2014;Bravina et al 2016;Pendea et al 2017;Kuzmin et al 2017). The area under consideration includes (from west to east): Taymyr Peninsula; the middle and lower reaches of the Lena River basin (including Aldan River basin); Northeastern Siberia; and Kamchatka Peninsula (Figure 1).…”

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Reconstructing Human−environmental Relationship in the Siberian Arctic and Sub-Arctic: A Holocene Overview

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2023

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This paper examines patterns of human–environmental interactions across northern Asia during the Holocene, in order to summarize current knowledge and identify key areas for future research. To achieve these goals, currently available chronological, cultural, and paleoenvironmental datasets from the east Russian Arctic for the last 10,000 14C years were integrated. Study regions include the Taymyr Peninsula, Lena River basin (except its southern part), northeastern Siberia, and Kamchatka Peninsula. Several broad-scale correlations between climatic fluctuations and cultural responses (e.g., subsistence strategies and occupation densities) were identified; however, these are not straightforward. For example, the increase of occupations during the warm periods in the Early–Middle Holocene are notable while the most pronounced rises coincide with a cooling trend in the Late Holocene. This shows that the human–environmental relationships in the Holocene were not linear; more interdisciplinary research will be needed to construct higher resolution data for understanding prehistoric cultural responses to past environmental changes in the Asian Arctic.

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Reconstructing Human−environmental Relationship in the Siberian Arctic and Sub-Arctic: A Holocene Overview

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2023

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Xiongnu-Xianbei layer in the Yakut Culture

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2022

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The aim of the article is to systematize and conceptualize the similarities between the paleo-ethnographic culture of the Yakuts and the Xiongnu of Central Asia, and to assess the possible ways of their appearance and incorporation into the new environment. In addition to the published data on this topic, the main source for the preparation of this paper was authors’ field archaeological material, collected during many years of expeditions. Among the materials of the Yakut Culture, a group of objects, the origin of which is associated with the Xiongnu-Xianbei time, includes some motifs of the traditional Yakut ornament, as well as artifacts — fragments of a com-pound bow, whistling arrowheads, Wushu coins, burial structures, etc. The earliest finds of these types of articles come from the cultural layers of the settlement of Ulakhan Segelennyah on the Olekma River, dated to the period within 110 BC — 350 cal AD. It is believed that the Xiongnu-Xianbei community was formed at the end of the 2nd — beginning of the 3rd c. AD after the fall of the Xiongnu Empire under the blows of warlike Mongol-speaking Xian-bei. We conclude that in the Middle Ages the ancestors of the Yakuts had direct or indirect cultural ties with the Xiongnu. This could happen in the way of the resettlement of a small group of Xiongnu or Xiongnu-Xianbei to the north, or, more likely, it was the result of contacts between the Xiongnu or the ancestors of the Yakuts during their residence in the south of Siberia in the Early Middle Ages. The broadcasting of Xiongnu cultural traditions through the tribes of the Tashtyk Culture of the Minusinsk depression, with which, according to some researchers, the ancestors of the Yakuts once had active ethnic and cultural contacts, is also possible. In the Yakut Culture, the southern elements turned out to be in demand, as evidenced in particular by the funerary structures of the Yakuts in the Late Middle Ages. In the Lensky region, there was a further development of products of the indicated types, which led to the formation of a peculiar appearance of the traditional culture of the Yakuts.

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Early Yakut Burials of the Fourteenth–Seventeenth Centuries

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Reconstructing Human−environmental Relationship in the Siberian Arctic and Sub-Arctic: A Holocene Overview

Reconstructing Human−environmental Relationship in the Siberian Arctic and Sub-Arctic: A Holocene Overview

Xiongnu-Xianbei layer in the Yakut Culture

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