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Siberia: Paleolithic

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Introduction

Siberia is a territory of 13.1 mil km2 encompassing the northern part of Asia east of the Ural Mountains to the Pacific coast (the Far East). This vast area has major significance for documenting the evolutionary processes of initial human settlement in the frame of past climates and climate change in the boreal and (circum-)polar regions of the Northern Hemisphere. Particularly, the central continental areas in the transitional subarctic zone between the northern Siberian lowlands south of the Arctic Ocean and the southern Siberian mountain systems characterized by a strongly continental climate regime have been subjected to multidisciplinary Quaternary (paleoecological and geoarchaeological) investigations during the last decades. Siberia is also the principal territory for transcontinental studies and correlations of geological climate proxy records across Eurasia following the East-West and South-North geographic transects (Fig. 1). Among them, loess (fine aeolian...

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  1. Laboratory for Paleoecology, T. Bata University in Zlin, Zlin, Czech Republic

    Jiri Chlachula

  2. Institute of Geoecology and Geoinformation, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan, Poland

    Jiri Chlachula

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Chlachula, J. (2014). Siberia: Paleolithic. In: Smith, C. (eds) Encyclopedia of Global Archaeology. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-0465-2_660

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