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Issue 2 (43)

ETHNOARCHAEOLOGICAL STUDIES OF THE EVENK CULTURE AND A SIMULATION OF HAMBURGIAN PREHISTORIC SOCIETIES
Year	2014	Number	2(43)
Pages	18-29	Type	scientific article
UDC	397(571)+904 (430)	BBK	63.589 (253)+63.589(4)
Authors	Gron Ole	Topic	MAN OF ARCTIC
Summary	The article presents an ethnoarchaeologial study of the old Evenk hunting camps in tiga-sites (killsites where the routes of the migrating reindeer cross major rivers) on the basis of one of these sites studied on the upper Olenok River. The economic role of this type of large-scale kill-sites is well known and recognized in archaeology. The focal point of the article is the discussion of their social, ideological and territorial role. Another accent in the discussion is understanding the degree to which we may extrapolate the social, ideological and territorial aspects of the hunting pattern registered at some contemporary kill-sites onto the Upper Paleolithic sites with similar economic characteristics.
Keywords	ethnoarchaeology, Evenki, Yakutia, river Olenok, hunter-gatherer society, of the Hamburg culture, Shtellmoor and Meiendorf
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