Chronology and environments of the Pleistocene peopling of North Asia
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
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Result on the web
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ara.2017.07.006" target="_blank" >http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ara.2017.07.006</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ara.2017.07.006" target="_blank" >10.1016/j.ara.2017.07.006</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Chronology and environments of the Pleistocene peopling of North Asia
Original language description
The Pleistocene peopling of North Asia was a complex evolutionary process controlled by interactions of climates and environments determining the spatial-temporal dynamics of migrations and specific forms of natural adaptations of early humans. The Quaternary geology, palaeoecology and geoarchaeology records uncovered at the investigated occupation sites document an ancient intermittent presence of people in Siberia and the Russian Far East. The earliest homini dispersal into this vast territory is evidenced by rudimentary flaked cobble-flake stone industries associated with the Early(?) and Middle Pleistocene fossiliferous alluvia in the major Siberian (Ob, Yenisei and Lena) basins. More diagnostic and broadly distributed Middle Palaeolithic cultural complexes (time-equivalent to MIS 12-4), often associated with humanly articulated fossil fauna skeletal remains, represent the pre-modern (Neanderthal/early Homo sapiens) traditions characterized by the Levallois prepared-core technology. The biotically productive Last Interglacial (MIS 5e-c) parkland ecosystems preconditioned the documented site density increase and promoted human geographic expansion into the sub-Arctic regions. During the cold and hyper-arid early Last Glacial (MIS 4), most of the land was likely vacated except for the presumed natural refugia in the Alta-Sayan foothills. The subsequent interstadial (MIS 3) warming facilitated colonization of the Siberian Arctic by the late Middle (Neanderthal?) and the progressive Upper Palaeolithic people. Following the Last Glacial Maximum (24-19 ka BP), most of North Asia was re-settled by dispersed and the regionally heterogeneous Final Palaeolithic groups adapted to the mosaic post-glacial ecosystems replacing the disappearing and biotically most productive periglacial tundra-steppe. Mapping the Pleistocene climate history and the associated environmental transformations in the boreal and (sub) polar regions in northern Asia has a principal bearing to elucidation of the initial human migrations to the American continent.
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
60102 - Archaeology
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
V - Vyzkumna aktivita podporovana z jinych verejnych zdroju
Others
Publication year
2017
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Archaeological Research In Asia
ISSN
2352-2267
e-ISSN
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Volume of the periodical
12
Issue of the periodical within the volume
Neuveden
Country of publishing house
GB - UNITED KINGDOM
Number of pages
21
Pages from-to
33-53
UT code for WoS article
000416356700004
EID of the result in the Scopus database
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