Publication Date:
1997-02-28
Description:
Lower Paleolithic artifacts have been recovered from a single occupation surface within stratified deposits at Diring Yuriakh, an archaeological site in central Siberia. Thermoluminescence age estimates from eolian sediments indicate that the cultural horizon is greater than 260,000 years old. Diring Yuriakh is an order of magnitude older than documented Paleolithic sites in Siberia and is important for understanding the timing of human expansion into the far north, early adaptations to cold climates, and the peopling of the Americas.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Waters, M R -- Forman, S L -- Pierson, J M -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1997 Feb 28;275(5304):1281-4.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Department of Anthropology, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77843, USA.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9036846" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
Keywords:
Animals
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*Archaeology
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Climate
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DNA-Binding Proteins/*genetics/physiology
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*Hominidae
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Humans
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Siberia
Print ISSN:
0036-8075
Electronic ISSN:
1095-9203
Topics:
Biology
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Chemistry and Pharmacology
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Computer Science
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Medicine
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Natural Sciences in General
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Physics
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