Ecological Constraints and Drivers for Human Dispersals and Adaptations in the Late Pleistocene and Early Holocene Environments of the East Siberian Arctic

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ID9343256
AutoresV Pitulko (0000-0001-5672-2756, Peter the Great's Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography, autor correspondente), E Y Pavlova (0000-0002-3010-6290, Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute, autor correspondente)
Ano2023
Volume6
Fascículo4
Páginas56-56
Data de publicação2023-11-06
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoQuaternary (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 2571-550X • E-ISSN: 2571-550X
EditoraMultidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (PUBLISHER • CH)
DOI10.3390/quat6040056
OpenAlexW4388408538
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas2
Referências citadas98

Starting roughly 50,000 years ago, the Arctic region of East Siberia remained continuously populated by groups of anatomically modern humans including the most uncomfortable episodes in the development of the late Quaternary environment; for some of them, human presence in the area became ephemeral. At present, archaeological fossil records allow for distinguishing three main stages in human occupation of the area: Early (~50 to ~29 ka, MIS 3), middle (~29 to ~11.7 ka, MIS 2), and late (from 11.7 to ~8 ka). For most of the time, they the populated open landscapes of the Mammoth Steppe, which declined at the onset of the Holocene. Human settlement of the Arctic was driven by various abiotic and biotic factors and thus archaeologically visible cardinal cultural and technological changes correspond to the most important paleoclimatic and habitat changes in the late Pleistocene and early Holocene. Successful peopling of the Arctic was largely facilitated by the adoption of critically important innovations such as sewing technology based on the use of the eyed bone needle and the manufacture of long shafts and pointed implements made of mammoth tusks. Mammoth exploitation is seen in mass accumulations of mammoths formed by hunting. An obvious connection between archaeological materials and such accumulations is observed in the archaeological record. In the lithic technology, the early stage is presented by archaic-looking flake industries. Starting the LGM, the wedge-core based-microblade technology known as the Beringian microblade tradition spread widely following the shrinkage of the mammoth range. At the late stage, starting at the Holocene boundary, microprismatic blade technology occurs. In all stages, the complex social behavior of the ancient Arctic settlers is revealed. The long-distance transport of products, knowledge, and genes occurs due to the introduction of the land transportation system. Initial human settlement of this region is associated with carriers of the West Eurasian genome who became replaced by the population with East Asian ancestry constantly moving North under the pressure of climate change

Ancient DNA · Archaeological record · Archaeology · Arctic · Beringia · Biology · Geography · Holocene · Mammoth · Pleistocene · Rock shelter · Steppe · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies · Indigenous Studies and Ecology · Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology · Ecology · Geology · Oceanography · Paleontology