Pages: 137-146

Targeted search for Palaeolithic sites in the Lower Ob region have led to the formulation of a hypotheses about the routes of peopling of this territory. Archaeological surveys covered the Lower Ob valley and the valleys of its left-bank tributaries, and GIS modelling of the routes convenient for crossing the Polar Urals has been carried out. According to the available evidence, the first settlers penetrated into the north of Western Siberia through the valleys of Northeastern Europe. The detection of archaeological traces of these migrations is complicated by the specific composition of Quaternary sediments in the study area. On the left bank of the Lower Ob, the cover complex is represented by re-deposited diamictons formed in the Holocene and covering most of the paleontological and archeological traces of human penetration through the Ural Mountains into the Trans-Urals region. On the right bank of the Lower Ob, the increased capacity of the subaerial complex makes the middle Upper Palaeolithic sites hardly accessible.

Keywords: Siberia, Subarctic, Lower Ob, Polar Urals, Pleistocene, Palaeolithic, settlement, GIS modeling, archaeological survey, geomorphological analysis

Information about authors:

Ivan Zolnikov (Novosibirsk, Russian Federation). Doctor of Geology and Mineralogy. Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography, Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Akademik Lavrentiev Ave., 17, Novosibirsk, 630090, Russian Federation.
E-mail: [email protected]
Anton Anoikin (Novosibirsk, Russian Federation). Doctor of Historical Sciences. Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography, Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Akademik Lavrentiev Ave., 17, Novosibirsk, 630090, Russian Federation.
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Sergei Makarov (Saint Petersburg, Russian Federation). Museum of Nature and Man. Mira St., 11, Khanty-Mansiysk, 628011, Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug — Yugra, Russian Federation.
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Alexander Postnov (Novosibirsk, Russian Federation). Candidate of Historical Sciences. Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography, Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Akademik Lavrentiev Ave., 17, Novosibirsk, 630090, Russian Federation.
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Anton Rezvyi (Khanty-Mansiysk, Russian Federation). Museum of Nature and Man. Mira St., 11, Khanty-Mansiysk, 628011, Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug — Yugra, Russian Federation.
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Nadezhda Glushkova (Novosibirsk, Russian Federation). Candidate of Technical Sciences. V. S. Sobolev Institute of Geology and Mineralogy, Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Akademik Koptyug Ave., 3, Novosibirsk, 630090, Russian Federation.
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Dmitrii Bychkov (Novosibirsk, Russian Federation). Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography, Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Akademik Lavrentiev Ave., 17, Novosibirsk, 630090, Russian Federation.
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Daniel Tupakhin (Salekhard, Russian Federation). Arctic research center of Yamal-Nenets Autonomous District. Respublica St., 20, Salekhard, 629007, Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug, Russian Federation.
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Anton Vybornov (Novosibirsk, Russian Federation). Candidate of Historical Sciences. Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography, Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Akademik Lavrentiev Ave., 17, Novosibirsk, 630090, Russian Federation.
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