The “Microblade Adaptation” and Recolonization of Siberia during the Late Upper Pleistocene

Goebel, Ted

doi:10.1525/ap3a.2002.12.1.117

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“…For instance, microblade and burin industries appear synchronously in the archeological records at Ushki (component 6) and in Alaska (the Denali complex), shortly after 12,500 YBP (Goebel et al 2002). This sudden and significant technology reorganization could likely represent modern migrations of Northeast Asians into the region.…”

Section: Circum-arctic Contact: a Hybrid Zone?mentioning

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Integrating Different Biological Evidence Around Some Microevolutionary Processes: Bottlenecks and Asian-American Arctic Gene Flow in the New World Settlement

González‐José

Bortolini

2011

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Excepting some specific efforts, most of the mainstream debate around the Americas' settlement has been directed by specialists dealing with partial evidence. Thus, discussions have been confined to particular academic and scientific environments with limited interchange among archeologists, physical anthropologists, linguists, geneticists, geologists, paleontologists, and so on. As a consequence, integrative views about a process that is complex by definition have been scarce and driven by confrontation rather than by a search for common results. Still, an increasing number of specialists are attempting to integrate different types of data. In our view, a proper way to do this is to focus the discussion around evolutionary or cultural processes and the putative patterns that such processes could have generated in the different types of data, which in turn, depend on the nature of the data. In this way, the analyses and conclusions can be interpreted as "model-bound" rather than purely inferential. In this paper, we first provide a brief summary of main differences among the two main sources of biological informationgenetics and craniofacial size and shape-along with the main conclusions that the patterns of genetic and craniofacial variation provide. Furthermore, we exemplify the above-mentioned notion by discussing two particular processes and their hypothetical impact on genetic and craniofacial data: the influence of bottlenecks during the early dispersal and a putative zone of gene flow among Asian and American Circum-Arctic populations.Keywords Bottlenecks . Arctic gene flow . Skull shape . mtDNA . Y-chromosome . Autosomal markers . Native Americans Humans have always been curious about their origins back before the rise of civilization. However, only with the advent of science were widely accepted methods established in order to answer many issues regarding our own history. Archeology and paleontology have long offered theoretical tools and empirical evidence to support research on modern Homo sapiens origins and its extraordinary outof-Africa expansion and adaptive radiation to previously unoccupied continents (Collard et al. 2007;Foley and Lahr 2003;Lahr 1996;Rightmire et al. 2007;Stringer et al. 1995). This scenario, however, experienced a major revolution in the past century with the emergence of genetics and more recently, of molecular biology, because both disciplines have brought new tools to uncover the unregistered past of human populations (see recent examples in Blum and Jakobsson 2010;Rasmussen et al. 2010;Ray et al. 2009). Additionally, population and quantitative genetics provide a formal, proper framework to make inferences around the four central concepts of Darwinian thought (multiplication, heredity, variation, and competition by natural selection) and further concepts emphasized by modern evolutionary theory as well (stochastic factors, epigenesis, genomics, evolutionary development, geneculture coevolution, etc.). To sum up, a highly stimulating set of disciplines contributes ...

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Section: Circum-arctic Contact: a Hybrid Zone?mentioning

confidence: 99%

Integrating Different Biological Evidence Around Some Microevolutionary Processes: Bottlenecks and Asian-American Arctic Gene Flow in the New World Settlement

González‐José

Bortolini

2011

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“…The environment in general may have been less patchy, allowing for relatively long-term human use of resource rich areas. The MUP adaptive strategy has been described as logistical foraging from semi-permanent residential locations (Goebel 1999(Goebel , 2002. There is evidence that groups were hunting one or two fauna species from small campsites.…”

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“…Sites during the LUP were repeatedly occupied by mobile groups for short periods of time (Goebel 1999(Goebel , 2002(Goebel , 2004. LUP sites in the Transbaikal, such as Studenoe 1 and 2 and Ust' Menza 1 and 2, reveal dwellings clearly demarcated by river cobbles with central stone-lined hearths.…”

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“…Groups were likely moving relatively frequently but reoccupying the same base camp during certain times of year to extract targeted resources (red deer and roe deer). Microblade technology appears in the Transbaikal during this time period, sometime between 21 000 and 18 000 years ago (Kuzmin and Orlova 1998;Goebel et al 2000;Goebel 2002;Buvit et al 2004;Kuzmin and Keates 2005). This technology is regarded as a means of reducing risk by conserving raw material and maximizing the amount of cutting edge on tools (Flenniken 1987;Rasic and Andrefsky 2001;Elston and Brantingham 2002).…”

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Raw Material Durability, Function, and Retouch in the Upper Paleolithic of the Transbaikal Region, Siberia

Terry

Andrefsky

Konstantinov

2009

Lithic Materials and Paleolithic Societies

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Stone tool reduction intensity and raw material availability have often been correlated with human organizational strategies. Assemblages from Early, Middle, and Late Upper Paleolithic sites in the Transbaikal region of Siberia were compared and assessed for retouch amount using several techniques. These studies reveal that stone tool functional requirements play an important role in the amount and intensity of retouch in the region. It is also shown that artifact function correlates with raw material selection, where certain kinds of activities, such as scraping, are most effectively accomplished with specific raw material characteristics. Human organizational patterns in the Transbaikal region are only evident when these factors are considered in assessing retouch measures.Lithic Materials and Paleolithic Societies Edited by Brian Adams and Brooke S. Blades

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“…However, it would be premature to connect the appearance of microblade technology with climatic fluctuations around the LGM time (e.g. Goebel 2002). In Siberia and Mongolia, the earliest evidence of microblades (produced by pressure flaking) goes back to about 35,000-28,500 BP (e.g.…”

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Radiocarbon Chronology for Prehistoric Complexes of the Russian Far East: 15 Years Later

Kuzmin¹

2012

Radiocarbon

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ABSTRACT. The recent progress in radiocarbon dating of the prehistoric cultural complexes in the Russian Far East is discussed against the background of ancient chronologies for greater East Asia. Since 1997, the wide use of accelerator mass spectrometry (AMS) radiocarbon dating along with the continuation of conventional dating has allowed us to establish the age of several key Paleolithic, Neolithic, and Paleometal sites. It has also contributed to advancing a deeper understanding of the timing for the beginning of pottery production, maritime adaptation, and agriculture, and several other important issues in prehistoric chronology for the studied region. Reservoir age correction values for the Japan and Okhotsk seas are now used to adjust the age for samples of marine origin. Some of the cultural-chronological models for prehistoric far eastern Russian complexes put forward in the last 10 yr lack a solid basis, and are critically evaluated herein.

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The “Microblade Adaptation” and Recolonization of Siberia during the Late Upper Pleistocene

Cited by 79 publications

References 24 publications

Integrating Different Biological Evidence Around Some Microevolutionary Processes: Bottlenecks and Asian-American Arctic Gene Flow in the New World Settlement

Integrating Different Biological Evidence Around Some Microevolutionary Processes: Bottlenecks and Asian-American Arctic Gene Flow in the New World Settlement

Raw Material Durability, Function, and Retouch in the Upper Paleolithic of the Transbaikal Region, Siberia

Radiocarbon Chronology for Prehistoric Complexes of the Russian Far East: 15 Years Later

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