Colonization and Early Human Migrations in the Insular Russian Far East: A View From the Mid-2010s

Journal of Island and Coastal Archaeology

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 122-132

  Kuzmin, Yaroslav V ^a,b  

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

^b TOMSK STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

colonization; East Asia; Kurile Islands; Neolithic; obsidian sourcing; Paleolithic; Sakhalin Island

Indexed keywords

ARCHIPELAGO; COLONIZATION; MARITIME TRANSPORTATION; MIGRATION; NEOLITHIC; OBSIDIAN; PALEOLITHIC; RESEARCH WORK;

AMUR RIVER; HOKKAIDO; JAPAN; KURIL ISLANDS; RUSSIAN FAR EAST; RUSSIAN FEDERATION; SAKHALIN; SAKHALIN ISLAND;

EID: 84931422302     PISSN: 15564894     EISSN: 15561828     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/15564894.2015.1050533     Document Type: Article

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