Siberian Paleolithic Archaeology: Approaches and Analytic Methods [and Comments and Replies]

Dolitsky, Alexander B.; Ackerman, Robert E.; Aigner, Jean S.; Bryan, Alan L.; Dennell, Robin; Guthrie, R. Dale; Hoffecker, John F.; Hopkins, David M.; Lanata, José Luis; Workman, William B.

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“…Siberian archaeological research dates back to the nineteenth century, giving it the longest history of these four regions ( Buvit and Terry 2011). even during the Soviet period Palaeolithic discoveries from Siberia were usually compared to those from Western europe, not east Asia ( Dolitsky et al 1985).…”

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The Korean Early Palaeolithic: Patterns and Identities

Lee¹

2015

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Increasing data from early Korean Palaeolithic assemblages have challenged the validity of traditional paradigms. This article summarizes previous models and addresses recently raised questions regarding the synthesis of early toolkits. Determining chronologies, cultural markers, and regional cultural traits were our primary objectives. The applicability of the traditional Western Palaeolithic chronology (Lower, Middle, Upper) to East Asian contexts has recently been questioned, in conjunction with an effort to identify more discrete chronological changes in East Asia. The discourse related to cultural identities within East Asia has underscored the importance of spatially and temporally differing values. The morphology and metrics of Korean hand axes have not been considered typical Acheulean. In addition, temporal persistence is an issue; it has caused the conventional culture-historical orthodoxy to be questioned. Discourses on expedient lithic reduction and a static lithic sequence have been considered indicative of discrete cultural entities in the Korean Palaeolithic. Oldowan-like simple core and flake assemblages and the sporadic occurrence of hand axe assemblages in East Asia were traditionally regarded to be chronologically and culturally separate entities. The growing body of archaeological data for Korea has allowed analysis of the occupational contemporaneity and cultural subordination and independence of chopping tool and hand axe assemblages. The Korean Early Palaeolithic is not standardized and does not conform to traditional typologies. Consequently, the directional perspectives applied to these assemblages need to be reevaluated.

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The Korean Early Palaeolithic: Patterns and Identities

Lee¹

2015

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“…Indeed all dates before the upper Paleolithic (40,000 BP) in northeastern Siberia are suspectlol 2 and need reappraisal. 13 Most archeologists believe that the hunting bands that crossed into North America from Asia were comprised of anatomically modern humans, but argue about the timing of such movements. Questions arise because there are sites in interior North AmericaI4 (Meadowcroft Rock Shelter: near Pittsburgh) and South America (e.g., Monte Verde, Chile;Is and Boqueirao da Pedra Furada, Brazil16) that predate Clovis remains.…”

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Genetics of aboriginal north Americans

Szathmáry

1993

Evolutionary Anthropology

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“…The usage of such terms as culture, complex, tradition, etc. has received much attention in western archaeological literature (see Dolitsky 1985;Dumond and Bland 1995).…”

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Northeast Asia in the Late Pleistocene and Early Holocene

Slobodin¹

1999

World Archaeology

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This paper considers the Late Pleistocene and Early Holocene record of the comparatively unexplored area of Northeast Siberia. This area is of key importance for our understanding of the first peopling of the Americas. Late Pleistocene cultural traditions include microblade (with wedgeshaped cores and bifaces), non-microblade, and pebble-based. No properly dated Pleistocene pebble complexes are however known in the area. In the Early Holocene new cultural traditions are referred to as Mesolithic or Holocene (relict) Palaeolithic. The major criterion for separating these epochs is the disappearance of wedge-shaped cores and the appearance of conical and prismatic ones. So far there is no clear evidence that Paleoindian cultures originated in Northeast Asia, but a fluted point from Uptar shows that the technique of fluting was known in Northeast Asia at the Pleistocene/Holocene boundary.

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Siberian Paleolithic Archaeology: Approaches and Analytic Methods [and Comments and Replies]

Cited by 7 publications

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The Korean Early Palaeolithic: Patterns and Identities

The Korean Early Palaeolithic: Patterns and Identities

Genetics of aboriginal north Americans

Northeast Asia in the Late Pleistocene and Early Holocene

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