Ymyyakhtakh culture

Yukaghir shaman of Siberia - 1903 photo

The Ymyyakhtakh culture (Russian: Ымыяхтахская культура) was a Late Neolithic culture of Siberia, with a very large archaeological horizon, dating to c. 2200–1300 BC. Its origins seem to be in the Lena river basin of Yakutia, and also along the Yenisei river. From there it spread both to the east and to the west.[1] Individual sites were also found in Taymyr.

Description

A distinctive feature of the culture is the round-bottomed ceramics with waffle and ridge prints on the outer surface. Stone and bone arrowheads, spears and harpoons are richly represented. Armour plates were also used in warfare.

Finds of bronze ware are frequent in the burial grounds.

The culture was formed by the tribes migrating from the shores of Lake Baikal to the south, merging with the local substrate of the Bel'kachi culture.

The carriers of culture are identified either with the Yukagirs ethnic group, or perhaps with the Chukchi and Koryaks. The Ymyyakhtakh culture continued at least until the first centuries of our era. It was later replaced by the Ust-Mil culture.

Migrations

After 1,700 BC, the Ymyyakhtakh culture is believed to have spread to the east as far as the Chukotka peninsula, where it was in cultural contact with the Eskimo-Aleut language speakers, and the Paleo-Eskimos.[2]

A ceramic complex comparable to the Ymyyakhtakh culture (typified by pottery with an admixture of wool) is also found in northern Fennoscandia towards the end of the second millennium BC.[3]

See also

References

  1. ↑ Kicki Näslund, Short summary of Siberian pre-history and cultures - Academia.edu
  2. ↑ Pavel Flegontov et al, Na-Dene populations descend from the Paleo-Eskimo migration into America. doi:10.1101/074476
  3. ↑ Козлов, А. И.; Лисицын, Д. Д. (2008). "Происхождение, этническая история и традиционное природопользование саамов". In Козлов, А. И.; Лисицына, Д. В.; Козловой, М. А. Кольские саамы в меняющемся мире (in Russian). Москва: Институт Наследия, ИЛ «АрктАн-С». p. 14. ISBN 978-5-86443-148-1.

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