Studies of the Burkhala site on the Upper Kolyma, 2018–2020

Authors

  • SERGEY B. SLOBODIN N.A. Shilo North-Eastern Integrated Research Institute of the Far Eastern Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences (Magadan, Russia)
  • ALISA Yu. ZELENSKAYA N.A. Shilo North-Eastern Integrated Research Institute of the Far Eastern Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences (Magadan, Russia)

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.24866/1997-2857/2023-2/15-31

Keywords:

Upper Kolyma, Northeast Asia, Mesolithic, Early Holocene, Sumnagin culture, Siberdikov culture

Abstract

The article discusses the controversial issue of the most ancient stages of the history of Kolyma at the turn of the Pleistocene – early Holocene. Carried out in 2018–2020, the excavations of the Burkhala site, discovered in the upper reaches of the Kolyma River, shed light on one of the aspects of this issue and confirmed the spread of the Sumnagin culture in the Kolyma. As a result of the excavations, authentic in situ materials associated with the Sumnagin culture were obtained, the age of which according to radiocarbon dating is 9300 years ago.

Author Biographies

  • SERGEY B. SLOBODIN, N.A. Shilo North-Eastern Integrated Research Institute of the Far Eastern Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences (Magadan, Russia)

    Candidate of Historical Sciences, Leading Researcher, Laboratory of History and Economics.

  • ALISA Yu. ZELENSKAYA, N.A. Shilo North-Eastern Integrated Research Institute of the Far Eastern Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences (Magadan, Russia)

    Research Fellow, Laboratory of History and Economics.

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Published

28-06-2023

Issue

No. 2 (2023): Humanitarian research in the Eastern Siberia and the Far East

Section

ARCHAEOLOGY, ANTHROPOLOGY AND ETHNOLOGY IN CIRCUM-PAСIFIC

How to Cite

Studies of the Burkhala site on the Upper Kolyma, 2018–2020. (2023). Humanitarian Research in the Eastern Siberia and the Far East, 2, 15-31. https://doi.org/10.24866/1997-2857/2023-2/15-31