Ulalinka, the Oldest Palaeolithic Site in Siberia

Okladnikov, A. P.; Pospelova, G. A.

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“…Over the last decade there has been a heightened interest in the Lower Paleolithic of Siberia, and there have been a number of claims of surprisingly great antiquity for early man in the north. Paleomagnetic data reported by Okladnikov and Pospelova (1982) are interpreted by the authors to place the site's main occupation in the Matuyama Reversed Chron, thus making the site older than 730,000 years. The site revealed, from a layer composed of reworked alluvial sediments containing boulders, gravels, and sands, a number of pebble tools selected from the large number of natural cobbles.…”

Section: The Search For the First Inhabitants Of Siberiamentioning

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The Enisei River of central Siberia in the Late Pleistocene

Davis

1998

J Archaeol Res

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of Central Siberia in the LateRecent Paleolithic work along the middle Enisei River of central Siberia has revealed a long history of occupation that almost certainly begins in the Middle Pleistocene. Although the evidence for the Lower Paleolithic is somewhat tentative, there is good reason to believe that hunter-gatherers had periodically occupied the middle Enisei before the last interglacial. The steppe environment of the region during the Upper Pleistocene was relatively bountiful; more than 200 Upper Paleolithic sites, both before and after the Last Glacial Maximum, have been located. The region appears to have been abandoned during the Last Glacial Maximum. Most of Soviet and Russian archaeological work has been guided by a cultural-historical orientation, but recently there has been increased interest in developing adaptationist and ecological research strategies. The middle Enisei and the wider central Siberian region are key to understanding early adaptations to the north and the dimensions of Paleolithic population movements.

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The Enisei River of central Siberia in the Late Pleistocene

Davis

1998

J Archaeol Res

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“…At Ulalinka, Okladnikov excavated 600 ''prototools'' from a securely dated Middle Pleistocene clay deposit. 32,33 However, these materials do not show evidence of conchoidal fracturing and have been considered by others to be geo-facts. 7,34,35 The Mokhovo and Bereshekhovo sites have been biostratigraphically dated to the Middle Pleistocene, 36,37 but most of the materials from them do not show such signs of human workmanship as obvious platforms, bulbs of percussion, or acute flake angles.…”

Section: Did Lower Paleolithic Hominids Colonize Siberia?mentioning

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Pleistocene human colonization of Siberia and peopling of the Americas: An ecological approach

Goebel

1999

Evol. Anthropol.

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“…2). Derevianko 1978;Okladnikov and Pospelova 1982) and those who claim that they are in transposed context in mid-Pleistocene river gravels and not more than 30,000 BP (e.g. 2).…”

Section: Lower Palaeolithicmentioning

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“…He related them to other claimed pebble tool sites such as Filimoshki and Ust-Tu in Siberia, but these contain 'artefacts' which are in fact natural and there is a division of opinion between those who consider the Siberian pebble-tool industries as genuinely old (e.g. Derevianko 1978;Okladnikov and Pospelova 1982) and those who claim that they are in transposed context in mid-Pleistocene river gravels and not more than 30,000 BP (e.g. Kato etal.…”

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Palaeolithic Archaeology in the Mongolian People's Republic; A Report on the state of the art.

Shackley

1984

Proc. Prehist. Soc.

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This short paper summarizes current knowledge concerning the palaeolithic archaeology of the Mongolian People's Republic (‘Outer Mongolia’), although the paucity of well-documented assemblages and stratified sites makes it impossible to do more than comment on the nature of the material. A few early sites can be assigned to the Acheulean technocomplex and the Kazantsevo interglacial, but there is a more extensive group of surface middle palaeolithic assemblages in the Altai-Gobi area with close and dated typological parallels in northern China. At some of these localities, for example Arts Bogd in the southern Gobi, the first beginnings of the microblade tradition which characterizes the later Shabarakh complex of sites may be seen. These later sites, which form part of a remarkably uniform circumpolar epipalaeolithic dating to between 20–11,000 BP, are associated with the gradual Late Pleistocene desertification of the Gobi.

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Ulalinka, the Oldest Palaeolithic Site in Siberia

Cited by 8 publications

References 1 publication

The Enisei River of central Siberia in the Late Pleistocene

The Enisei River of central Siberia in the Late Pleistocene

Pleistocene human colonization of Siberia and peopling of the Americas: An ecological approach

Palaeolithic Archaeology in the Mongolian People's Republic; A Report on the state of the art.

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