Archaeology, Ethnology & Anthropology of Eurasia 41 (2) 2013

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Environmental Conditions of the Late Paleolithic and Early Neolithic Sites in Southern Sakhalin

N.A. Rudaya, A.A. Vasilevski, V.A. Grishchenko, and A.V. Mozhaev.

The article presents the results of a palynological study conducted at Late Paleolithic (Olympiya-5 and Ogonki-5) and Early Neolithic (Slavnaya-5) sites located in the southern part of Sakhalin Island. The reconstructed environments оf Late Paleolithic sites in southern Sakhalin included dark coniferous (fi r and spruce) forests, indicative of a relatively warm phases of the last stadial coinciding with Daansgard-Oeschger oscillations. The Early Holocene conditions in southern Sakhalin were relatively warm although a virtually complete absence of pollen of deciduous trees suggests that the Boreal period was not the Holocene climatic optimum in that region.

Keywords: Pollen analysis, reconstruction, paleoenvironment, Late Paleolithic, Early Neolithic, Sakhalin