The oldest art of the Eurasian arctic: Personal ornaments and symbolic objects from Yana RHS, Arctic Siberia

Antiquity

Volumn 86, Issue 333, 2012, Pages 642-659

  Pitulko, Vladimir V ^a   Pavlova, Elena Y ^b   Nikolskiy, Pavel A ^c   Ivanova, Varvara V ^d  

^a INSTITUTE FOR THE HISTORY OF MATERIAL CULTURE   (Russian Federation)

^b ARCTIC AND ANTARCTIC RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Russian Federation)

^c GEOLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Russian Federation)

^d VNIIOKEANGEOLOGIA   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Arctic; Palaeolithic art; Palaeolithic ivory artefacts; Siberia; Stone age; Upper Palaeolithic; Upper pleistocene

Indexed keywords

EID: 84865976718     PISSN: 0003598X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0003598X00047827     Document Type: Article

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