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Land-Ocean Systems in the Siberian Arctic: Dynamics and History
St.Petersburg) which means that some drastic environmental changes took place in the last
2,000 yrs. Did this cause the area to become unpopulated? These are questions beyond the
"regular" archaeological evidence coming from the test research of the Oleny Brook site.
Perhaps, some day we will get answers ...
Figure 8: Artifacts recovered from the Oleny Brook site: 1,2, and 7 - worked antler pieces; 3 - arrowhead; 4 - a
decorated bone pendant (?) with engravings; 5 -a knife handle of antler, and detail of a swivel block made of
antler (6).
Acknowledgments
I would like to thank Dmitri Bolshiyanov (AARI, St.Petersburg, Russia) who involved me in
the project and participated in discussion of the results; to William Fitzhugh (Arctic Studies
Centre, Smithsonian Institution, US) and Ted Carpenter (Rock Foundation, US) for useful
discussion of finds; Anatoly Kler (IMHC RAS, St.Petersburg, Russia) and Marcia Barky
(Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C., US) for technical assistance with the illustrations.
My special thanks should be given to Andrew Ivanov (AARI, St. Petersburg, Russia), my cotraveller in the Upper Taymyra survey and assistant in the excavations of the site.
Land-Ocean Systems in the Siberian Arctic: Dynamics and History
St.Petersburg) which means that some drastic environmental changes took place in the last
2,000 yrs. Did this cause the area to become unpopulated? These are questions beyond the
"regular" archaeological evidence coming from the test research of the Oleny Brook site.
Perhaps, some day we will get answers ...
Figure 8: Artifacts recovered from the Oleny Brook site: 1,2, and 7 - worked antler pieces; 3 - arrowhead; 4 - a
decorated bone pendant (?) with engravings; 5 -a knife handle of antler, and detail of a swivel block made of
antler (6).
Acknowledgments
I would like to thank Dmitri Bolshiyanov (AARI, St.Petersburg, Russia) who involved me in
the project and participated in discussion of the results; to William Fitzhugh (Arctic Studies
Centre, Smithsonian Institution, US) and Ted Carpenter (Rock Foundation, US) for useful
discussion of finds; Anatoly Kler (IMHC RAS, St.Petersburg, Russia) and Marcia Barky
(Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C., US) for technical assistance with the illustrations.
My special thanks should be given to Andrew Ivanov (AARI, St. Petersburg, Russia), my cotraveller in the Upper Taymyra survey and assistant in the excavations of the site.