Radiocarbon chronology of ancient cultures of Siberia and Far East of Russia

Pleistocene megafauna and the person in a paleolith of Siberia:
chronology, paleoenvironment and interaction
(Grant RFBR № 03-06-80289)

	PROJECT PURPOSE: The establishment of interrelation of the Paleolithic man with representatives of dyed Pleistocene megafaunae of Siberia and the Far East (the mammoth, the woolly rhinoceros, a bison, a cave bear, the musk ox, a horse, a cave hyena) at the end of late Pleistocene and in early Holocene, about 40000-9000 years ago.
	RUSSIAN VERSION

PROJECT LEADER: Orlova Lyobov Aleksandrovna

PROJECT RESALTS:

Resalts of project presented in two ways:

1. As the geoinformational system under Internet - jMapper (NRCGIT SB RAS). This programm product allows to view spatial data, make identification of objects by pressing the right mouse button, search data whithin given interval of ages settelments of aincient people и mammoth. The red points show an arrangement of sites of the ancient people, black - mammoth findings. If you will have difficulties at work with jMapper please write to balandis@uiggm.nsc.ru .

2. As the electronic worksheets in Excel format, that contain information about name of finding, geographic coordinates, radiocarbon dating ets. of ancient people sites and findings of mammoth.

PROJECT ASSUMES :

1. Detailed studying of archeology, paleontology and quoternary geology of basic geoarcheologic objects of Zauralye and Western Siberia, Eastern Siberia, Transbaikalia and the Far East;

2. Studying of radiocarbon chronology and paleoenvironment representatives of megafauna of Siberia and the Far East Russia

3. Finding-out of time of final extinction of the mammoth in Siberia, especially on monuments with radiocarbon dates less than 12000 years ago (the Wolf Mane, Lugovskoe, Yuribey, Bereleh);

4. Creation of a database of radiocarbon dates on Pleistocene megafauna, and also on settlings of ancient man of Siberia;

5. Modelling of spatial-temporal connection of areas of populations of the woolly rhinoceros, bison and the mammoth and primitive manned space a late and final paleolith of Siberia with use of geoinformation technologies;

6. Finding-out of the basic features of interaction of megafauna and the man in a paleolith of Siberia, and role of paleolithic hunters in its extinction in Northern Asia in the end Pleistocene.

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