The early neolithic of the kamchatka peninsula: a study of ushki v site

According to the results of the study of the Early Holocene cultural layer V of Ushki V site the Early Neolithic of the Kamchatka Peninsula is dated to c. 8500 cal. BP. The industry is represented by single - and double-platform prismatic cores with counter removal of blades, bifacial tools, flakes and blades with traces of recycling, knives and end-scrapers on the blades, pebble tools. One of the possible innovations of the period could have been the use of dog sleds as a means of transportation. The local population could have had contacts with the people of the Amur region and the Arctic part of Siberia through the continental regions of Yakutia.