A new late neo-Pleistocene archaeological object Syalakh site in the Russian Arctic region

Geochronological and archaeological evidences for the emergence and existence of ancient man in the last 29 kya were obtained at the territory of North Eastern Asia. These data is fragmentary by courtesy of geographical localization and specific climate in Arctic cryolithic zone. The found occurrence Syalakh will permit to determine the area of distribution and habitat of ancient populations, and outline the problem of adaptation strategies of ancient human such as hunting, butchering and the probable domestication of animals. It is supported by the find of two mummified whelp of ancient predator, the dog probably. Preliminary determination of the obtained materials and their correlation with the geomorphological position of the occurrence allow concluding that studied complex is simultaneous. Approximate age of this site is 12,5 ka, that is relevant to Final Sartan cryochron the Early Holocene optimum. The relative isolation of the region suggests that human evaluated here together with his stone and bone industries without significant outside influence. The climate corrected the human occupation of the Yana-Indigirka lowlands as well as the entire Arctic North. The changes, leaded the significant cultural transformation, have happened in conditions of developed modern human societies and local technological traditions, perhaps, Yana culture. It permits to reconstruct the cultural-historical process at this territory in the Neo-Pleistocene, and solve the problems associated with the content and adjustment of the boundaries between chronocultural periods of the Paleolithic and Neolithic in North Eastern Asia.