List of publications on a keyword: «Paleolithic»

The article gives the characteristics of the social life of the North of European Russia in the prehistoric era, examines its features in different periods of the stone age, defines the time (milestones) and ways of penetration of the first people on the European North, clarifies the nature and causes of this process, techniques of adaptation of primitive communities, stresses the importance in this process of natural and geographical factors. At each stage of the development of the northern populations is characterized by changes in the economy, the stone industry, religion and art. The author demonstrates the continuity of the social order: from the community to the tribal community and tribe, focuses on the problem of the coexistence of Cro-Magnon and Neanderthals and the causes of the Neanderthals death, as well as military clashes between the tribes belonging to different archaeological cultures.

The article describes the archaeological sites discovered and investigated during exploration along the route: the estuary the Keteme river - the village Ulakhan-An in the middle flow of the Lena river. It was studied six archaeological sites, pre-dating the time interval of the early Neolithic to the early Iron Age