Northeast Asia in the Late Pleistocene and Early Holocene

Slobodin, Sergey B.

doi:10.1080/00438243.1999.9980425

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“…Although fluted points are characteristic of the Paleoindian record of the Americas, rare and isolated examples have been described from the Old World, particularly in Siberia and western Europe. Fluting occurs at the northeast Siberian site of Uptar [94,95] where a single-face fluted point was identified (Fig 4: 3). This thin bifacial piece is about 45 mm long and 18 mm wide and 6 mm in thickness.…”

Section: Fluting In the Old World?mentioning

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Fluted-point technology in Neolithic Arabia: An independent invention far from the Americas

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New World archaeologists have amply demonstrated that fluted point technology is specific to Terminal Pleistocene American cultures. Base-fluted, and rarer tip-fluted, projectile points from the Americas have been well-documented by archaeologists for nearly a century. Fluting is an iconic stone tool manufacturing method and a specific action that involves the extraction of a channel flake along the longitudinal axis of a bifacial piece. Here we report and synthesize information from Neolithic sites in southern Arabia, demonstrating the presence of fluting on a variety of stone tool types including projectile points. Fluted projectile points are known from both surface sites and stratified contexts in southern Arabia. Fluting technology has been clearly identified at the Manayzah site (Yemen) dating to 8000-7700 cal. BP. Examination of fluted points and channel flakes from southern Arabia enable a reconstruction of stone tool manufacturing techniques and reduction sequences (chaines opé ratoires). To illustrate the technological similarities and contrasts of fluting methods in Arabia and the Americas, comparative studies and experiments were conducted. Similarities in manufacturing approaches were observed on the fluting scars of bifacial pieces, whereas technological differences are apparent in the nature and localization of the flute and, most probably, the functional objective of fluting in economic, social and cultural contexts. Arabian and American fluted point technologies provide an excellent example of convergence of highly specialized stone tool production methods. Our description of Arabian and American fluting technology demonstrates that similar innovations and inventions were developed under different circumstances, and that highly-skilled and convergent production methods can have different anthropological implications.

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Section: Fluting In the Old World?mentioning

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Fluted-point technology in Neolithic Arabia: An independent invention far from the Americas

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“…The Sumnagin complex found across Siberia is a terminal Upper Palaeolithic or Mesolithic complex (Mochanov & Fedoseeva 1986; Slobodin 1999; Pitul’ko 2001; Plumet 2004a, 2004b) that was originally defined based on assemblages from the region of Yakutia (Mochanov 1977). The toolkit includes conical microblade cores, multifaceted burins, end scrapers, large bifacial adzes and other lithic tool types.…”

Section: The Sumnagin Complex (Mesolithic C 13 000–7000 Cal Bp): Thmentioning

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Migrations and interactions in prehistoric Beringia: the evolution of Yakutian lithic technology

Coutouly

2016

Antiquity

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“…Frankly speaking, in spite of long-term research activity in the area, we have no direct evidence of the Late Pleistocene human colonization of the vast areas adjacent to the submerged portions of the Bering Land Bridge, i.e. at the Chukotka Peninsular, in the Kolyma, Omolon, and Anadyr River valleys (see the recent review in Slobodin 1999). Even now we have no assemblages comparable to the Alaskan ones from the chronological viewpoint.…”

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

Vasil’ev¹,

Kuzmin²,

Орлова³

et al. 2002

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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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Northeast Asia in the Late Pleistocene and Early Holocene

Cited by 18 publications

References 13 publications

Fluted-point technology in Neolithic Arabia: An independent invention far from the Americas

Fluted-point technology in Neolithic Arabia: An independent invention far from the Americas

Migrations and interactions in prehistoric Beringia: the evolution of Yakutian lithic technology

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

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