ANT100Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Microblade Technology, Steppe Bison, Aldan River
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32ka)- earliest evidence of modern humans in an artic environment with sophisticated up technology. This means human colonization of far north occurred during the warm period before lgm (ca. This site is important mainly for the technology, the hunting of large bodied big gamed mammals and the dates as it establishes humans in the far north of asia during the interglacial period. The obsidian from multiple sources suggests a highly mobile lifestyle. As the technology evolves the cores become smaller and smaller creating microblade technology. High quality stone is used for microblades such as obsidian, quartz, chert, basalt etc. as it allows the tool maker much more precision over the end product. Each volcano that produces obsidian produces obsidian with a slightly different chemical components. Dyuktai cave, dyuktai culture- located on the aldan river; occupational sequence 30-10kn spans entire siberian up, the culture was represented by the late occupation of dyuktai cave, 14-13ka.
