ARGILLITE ARTIFACTS AND FINAL PLEISTOCENE TO MIDDLE HOLOCENE CULTURAL LINKS ACROSS THE VITIM RIVER BASIN (BAIKAL REGION)
| Autor: | Aleksei Teten'Kin, G. V. Pashkova, E. I. Demonterova, E. V. Kaneva, V. M. Vetrov |
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| Rok vydání: | 2018 |
| Předmět: |
Cultural Studies
010506 paleontology Archeology education.field_of_study geography geography.geographical_feature_category 060102 archaeology Pleistocene Population Drainage basin 06 humanities and the arts 01 natural sciences law.invention Prehistory Paleontology Volcano law Pumice 0601 history and archaeology Radiocarbon dating education Holocene Geology 0105 earth and related environmental sciences |
| Zdroj: | Archaeology, Ethnology & Anthropology of Eurasia. 46:16-24 |
| ISSN: | 1563-0110 |
| Popis: | This paper presents the results of X-ray fl uorescence and X-ray diffraction analyses of argillite artifacts from Kovrizhka I on the lower Vitim and Ust-Karenga XVI on the upper Vitim. The specimens from layer 2 of Kovrizhka I date to ca 6 radiocarbon ka BP and belong to a non-ceramic culture with microblades. Two ritual pits at Ust-Karenga XVI, dating to 7–6 radiocarbon ka BP and associated with the late stage of the Ust-Karenga Neolithic culture, contained clusters of artifacts made of dark-brown argillite, including prismatic cores, blades, inserts, and end-scrapers made on blades. At both sites, similar argillite end-scrapers made on large blade-like spalls were found in different years. Their chemical analysis suggests that the raw material was the same, attesting to cultural ties. The distance between the sites along the river is ca 700 km––the largest range of connections evidenced to date in the prehistoric Baikal area. It was previously demonstrated that the artifact from volcanic pumice, found at Ust-Karenga XVI, had been transported from the Udokan volcanic fi eld, which was also a source of a piece of volcanic pumice from Kovrizhka III layer 3.The same sources of raw material, then, were exploited by different populations over a long period. Our review favors the idea of episodic contacts rather than a single population dispersed across a territory between Ust-Karenga and Kovrizhka. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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