Obsidian use at the Ushki Lake complex, Kamchatka Peninsula (Northeastern Siberia): implications for terminal Pleistocene and early Holocene human migrations in Beringia

Journal of Archaeological Science

Volumn 35, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 2179-2187

  Kuzmin, Yaroslav V ^a   Speakman, Robert J ^b   Glascock, Michael D ^c   Popov, Vladimir K ^d   Grebennikov, Andrei V ^d   Dikova, Margarita A ^e   Ptashinsky, Andrei V ^f  

^a SOBOLEV INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND MINERALOGY   (Russian Federation)

^b MUSEUM CONSERVATION INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

^d FAR EAST GEOLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Russian Federation)

^e Russian Academy of Sciences   (Russian Federation)

^f Vitus Bering Kamchatka State University   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Beringia; Human migrations; Kamchatka Peninsula; Neutron activation analysis; Obsidian

Indexed keywords

ARCHAEOLOGY; HUMAN SETTLEMENT; NEUTRON ACTIVATION ANALYSIS; OBSIDIAN; PLEISTOCENE-HOLOCENE BOUNDARY; POPULATION MIGRATION; SETTLEMENT HISTORY;

ALASKA; CHUKCHI; EURASIA; KAMCHATKA; KAMCHATKA PENINSULA; NORTH AMERICA; RUSSIAN FEDERATION; UNITED STATES;

EID: 44449168463     PISSN: 03054403     EISSN: 10959238     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jas.2008.02.001     Document Type: Article

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