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On the Pleistocene–Holocene border in the regions of the Russian Far East, a number of original archaeological cultures were developing several techniques of blade and microblade production. Based on the new series of carbon dates and detailed excavations, it is now possible to present a more detailed picture of the technological peculiarities and differences in traditions of flintknapping for the Paleolithic and the Neolithic.
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I would like to express my gratitude to my Siberian and Far Eastern colleagues: Dr. Sergei P. Nesterov (Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography, Novosibirsk), Dr. Alexander A. Krypianko and Dr. Alexander N. Popov (Far Eastern State University), Dr. Andrei V. Ptashinsky (Kamchatka State Pedagogical University) and Dr. Alexander A. Vasilevsky (Sakhalin State University) for the opportunity to work with archaeological collections, access to recent publications and for sharing their ideas and concepts on the origins of blade and microblade industries in the Far East. Supported by grant #09-06-00006-a from the Russian Foundation for Basic Researches.
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Tabarev, A.V. (2012). Blades and Microblades, Percussion and Pressure: Towards the Evolution of Lithic Technologies of the Stone Age Period, Russian Far East. In: Desrosiers, P. (eds) The Emergence of Pressure Blade Making. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-2003-3_13
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