title: Neolithic of the Northeast Asia and the Arctic Small Tool Tradition of the North America
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metadata.value: Slobodin, Sergei B.
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metadata.value: 2019-09-13T17:56:26Z
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metadata.value: 2019-09-13T17:56:26Z
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metadata.value: 2019-06
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metadata.value: Slobodin S. B. Neolithic of the Northeast Asia and the Arctic Small Tool Tradition of the North America. Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. History, 2019, vol. 64, issue 2, рp. 415–452.
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metadata.value: https://doi.org/10.21638/11701/spbu02.2019.204
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metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/16339
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metadata.value: The origins of several northern cultures — Native peoples of the Arctic and Subarctic (Inuits, Chukchi, Koryaks, Aleuts) are associated by most researchers with the development and spread of Neolithic cultures in Northeast Asia. These Neolithic cultures later gave rise to the Arctic Small Tool Tradition (ASTt) in Alaska, Canada, and Greenland. Neolithic cultures of Arctic and Subarctic Northeast Siberia (Yakutia, Chukotka and Kolyma regions) began their development during Mid-Holocene, approximately 6500–5500 years ago. Their basis are the Neolithic cultures of the Baikal Lake region, but as they formed they gained a unique character. Thus, in Yakutia, we can distinguish Syalakh, Belkachi, and Ymiyakhakh cultures, which later developed into the Neolithic cultures of Kolyma and Chukotka (Upper Kolyma, Ust-Belskaya, and Northern Chukotka). During the Neolithic, microblade technology continues to be used, and new shapes of bifacially flaked tools appear, which find analogies in the ASTt toolkits of the Arctic and Subarctic Zone of North America. In the Kolyma and Chukotka Neolithic complexes and in the ASTt complex in Alaska and Canada we find common tool types: small triangular points, rounded dorsally and ventrally retouched scrapers, beak-shaped combined tools, angular and multifaceted burins, end and side inset blades, gravers and adze with partially polished blades etc. Common traits of these cultures (traditions) formed, it appears, not only due to the direct spread of the Neolithic technologies and people into Alaska, but also due to the commonalities in the environmental and climatic zones of the Arctic and Subarctic which housed these cultures from the beginning of the second half of the Holocene.
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metadata.value: This work was supported by the Fulbright program.
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metadata.value: en
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metadata.name: dc.publisher
metadata.value: St Petersburg State University
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metadata.value: Vestnik of St Petersburg University. History;Volume 64; Issue 2
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Neolithic
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metadata.value: Northeast Asia
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metadata.value: Arctic Small Tools tradition
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metadata.value: Alaska
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Canada
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Greenland
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metadata.name: dc.title
metadata.value: Neolithic of the Northeast Asia and the Arctic Small Tool Tradition of the North America
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metadata.value: Article
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