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Accelerator radiocarbon dating of the initial Upper Palaeolithic in southeast Siberia

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Ted Goebel  and
Mikhail Aksenov
Ted Goebel
Affiliation:
Department of Sociology & Anthropology, Southern Oregon State College, Ashland OR 97520, USA
Mikhail Aksenov
Affiliation:
Department of Archaeology & Ethnography, Irkutsk State University, 1 K. Marx Street, Irkutsk 664003, Russia
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Across Eurasia and Africa new studies are encouraging archaeologists to rethink the age of of the Middle to Upper Palaeolithic transition. In the Lake Baikal region of southeast Siberia, new radiocarbon determinations on sites of difficult history suggest that the earliest Upper Palaeolithic emerged there as early as 39,000 years ago, 6000 years earlier than previously thought.

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Antiquity , Volume 69 , Issue 263 , June 1995 , pp. 349 - 357
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Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd. 1995

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