Provider: Moravian Museum, Brno, Czech Republic TY - JOUR JO - Anthropologie (Brno) TI - Pleistocene Geoarchaeology of the Russian Far East: Updated Results AU - Vsevolodovich Kuzmin Y Y1 - 1997 VL - 35 IS - 2 PB - Moravian Museum, Brno, Czech Republic SN - 0323-1119 SP - 131 EP - 136 KW - Geoarchaeology KW - Palaeolithic KW - Initial Neolithic KW - Russian Far East N2 - N2 - The updated review of geoarchaeoloogy of both the Upper Palaeolithic and Initial Neolithic cultures from the Russian Far East is presented The Upper Palaeolithic sites existed during ca 33,000-8000 BP, with permanent occupation of the middle part of the Amur River basin and Sakhalin Island at the time of the Last Glacial Maximum, ca 20,000-18,000 BP. The earliest Neolithic sites with evidence of pottery manufacture appeared in the lower part of the Amur River basin ca 13,000 BP The chronological boundary between the Palaeolithic and Neolithic in the continental Russian Far East may be placed at ca 13,000-8000 BP. ER -