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The Berelekh Mammoth “Graveyard”: New Chronological and Stratigraphical Data from the 2009 Field Season
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To clarify unanswered questions of site formation, geology and the archaeology of the Berelekh geoarchaeological complex, a special survey was undertaken in 2009 of the area surrounding the site. Several geological units have been revealed. By establishing the spatial and temporal relationship of these deposits—as well as their age—we have reconstructed the formation history of the Berelekh bone bed. The mammoth bone deposit belongs to a paleochannel. Radiocarbon dating of mammoth remains at Berelekh demonstrates rapid accumulation during the Bølling warming. Human involvement in its formation is, at best, questionable, since there is no real overlap between the radiocarbon dates associated with past human activity, and those of the mammoth bone bed. This study confirms that humans used mammoth bone remains after the bone bed was deposited. Culturally, the Berelekh “site” does not have any relationship to the so‐called “Dyuktai culture.” Instead, the Berelekh archaeological finds (side notched stone pendants) show certain similarities to non‐microblade terminal Pleistocene assemblages found from Yenisei to Kamchatka. Additionally, the Berelekh complex presents a clear analogy with lithics found in Eastern Beringia. Teardrop‐shaped incomplete bifaces found in the assemblage are comparable to the Chindadn points of Alaska. The nature of this “Chindadn connection” is intriguing but it is the only visible cultural link between Western and Eastern Beringia.
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Human activity is not recorded again in Western Beringia until the post-LGM period, with occupations of Berelekh and Ushki dated to ca. 14-13,000 cal BP.
“Human activity is not recorded again in Western Beringia until the post-LGM period, however, with occupations of two open-air sites, Berelekh and Ushki, dated to ca. 14–13,000 cal BP [16–18].”
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- Authors
- Pitulko, V. V., Basilyan, A. E., & Pavlova, E. Y.
- Affiliations
- Institute for the History of Material Culture Russian Academy of Sciences St Petersburg Russia
- Geological Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences Moscow Russia
- Arctic & Antarctic Research Institute St Petersburg Russia
- Venue
- Geoarchaeology
- Publisher
- Wiley
- Published
- 2014-06-10
- Volume
- 29
- Issue
- 4
- Pages
- 277-299
- ISSN
- 0883-6353
- 1520-6548
- Cited by
- 34
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- Language
- en
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