"They came from the ends of the earth": long-distance exchange of obsidian in the High Arctic during the Early Holocene

• Autores: Vladimir V. Pitulko, Yaroslav Kuzmin, Michael D. Glascock, Elena Yu. Pavlova, Andrei V. Grebennikov
• Localización: Antiquity, ISSN 0003-598X, Vol. 93, Nº 367, 2019, págs. 28-44
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Zhokhov Island in the Siberian High Arctic has yielded evidence for some of the most remote prehistoric human occupation in the world, as well as the oldest-known dog-sled technology. Obsidian artefacts found on Zhokhov have been provenanced using XRF analysis to allow comparison with known sources of obsidian from north-eastern Siberia. The results indicate that the obsidian was sourced from Lake Krasnoe—approximately 1500km distant—and arrived on Zhokhov Island c. 8000 BP. The archaeological data from Zhokhov therefore indicate a super-long-distance Mesolithic exchange network.