Archaeological Sibiriada

The first two volumes of the new four-volume “History of Siberia” are devoted to archeology. Such significant attention toward antiquities is due to the epochal discoveries of the human ancient routes and sites of the initial sett­lement of Siberia, primarily the Denisova Cave — the “chronicle of the Stone Age” of Altai. The participation of different sapiens populations in the development of Paleolithic technologies became an impetus for conceptualizing a new scenario in the perspective of polycentrism. The characteri­stics of the Neolithic era reveal another tectonic shift in the knowledge of prehistory — “turning to the east”, from where “Neolithization” began, if by it we mean the production of ceramics and a trend to sedentarism. The development of mobile nomadic cultures of large expanses (primarily steppes) is associated with the Metal Age. In the Middle Ages, Siberian archeology seamlessly merges with ethnography, due to which Russian science traditionally pays increased attention to ethnogenesis, and theories of the origin of peoples can be considered the scientific heritage of Russia. The new work of archeologists is of fundamental importance both for science and for the current inhabitants of Northern Eurasia, and contains enormous potential for further research and discoveries

Archaeological science · Cave · Cave painting · Homo sapiens · Middle Paleolithic · Middle Stone Age · Prehistory · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies · Archaeology and Rock Art Studies · Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology