Открытие Н. Н. Диковым палеоэскимосской стоянки на острове Врангеля

Abstract

The article provides the data on the ancient aboriginal population stay on Wrangel Island. The N. N. Dikov archaeological expedition to the island and his discovery of the Chyortov Ovrag Paleoeskimo site on the coast of Krasin Inlet (Somnityelnaya Bay area) is comprehensively reported. Brief information about the subsequent archaeological work at this site is given. It has been established that the appearance of the Paleoeskimo tradition of about 3.5 kyr in the Far North-East of Asia is associated with the migration of Arctic America's Paleoeskimo groups to the Bering Strait zone. An important conclusion made by N. N. Dikov is that the Wrangel Paleoeskimo culture tends to the Pacific coastal cultures and, apparently, is a part of the oldest single and broad cultural layer, which served as a basis for many North Pacific coastal cultures Today's researchers consider Paleoeskimo the settlement of Unenen, discovered in the south of the Chukchi Peninsula, the Dolakhtin sites in the Northwestern Beringomorye, the Tokarev culture in the Northern Priokhotye. The Paleoescoaleutian tradition had a certain influence on the development of the Tarya culture of the II-I millennia BC in Kamchatka.