亚纳河右岸遗址：末次盛冰期之前北极地区的人类

The Yana RHS site: humans in the Arctic before the last glacial maximum.

作者信息

Pitulko V V, Nikolsky P A, Girya E Yu, Basilyan A E, Tumskoy V E, Koulakov S A, Astakhov S N, Pavlova E Yu, Anisimov M A

机构信息

Institute for the History of Material Culture, Russian Academy of Sciences, 18 Dvortsovaya nab., St. Petersburg 191186, Russia.

出版信息

Science. 2004 Jan 2;303(5654):52-6. doi: 10.1126/science.1085219.

DOI:10.1126/science.1085219

PMID:14704419

Abstract

A newly discovered Paleolithic site on the Yana River, Siberia, at 71 degrees N, lies well above the Arctic circle and dates to 27,000 radiocarbon years before present, during glacial times. This age is twice that of other known human occupations in any Arctic region. Artifacts at the site include a rare rhinoceros foreshaft, other mammoth foreshafts, and a wide variety of tools and flakes. This site shows that people adapted to this harsh, high-latitude, Late Pleistocene environment much earlier than previously thought.

摘要

在西伯利亚亚纳河上一个新发现的旧石器时代遗址，位于北纬71度，远在北极圈以北，可追溯到距今27000年放射性碳年代之前的冰河时期。这个年代是北极地区其他已知人类居住点年代的两倍。该遗址的文物包括一根罕见的犀牛前肢骨、其他猛犸象的前肢骨，以及各种各样的工具和石片。这个遗址表明，人类适应这种恶劣的高纬度晚更新世环境的时间比之前认为的要早得多。