Archeology of North-East Asia


Below are sources on the archeology of Chukotka, Kamchatka, and a little Alaskan stuff. I have mixed in English-language and Russian-language sources. All the Russian titles here are also available in Cyrillic on the

Cyrillic Russian-language materials page.


Ackerman, R.

1984  Archaeology of the Asian Zone of Eskimo Occupation. Handbook of North American Indians. Volume 5: Arctic. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution.

Alekseev, V. P.

1983  Na styke Chukotki i Aliaski. Moskva: Nauka.

Alekseev, V. P., Sergei Aroutiounov, D. Sergeev.

1972  Results of historic, ethnological and anthropological studies in the Eastern Chukchee Area. Inter-Nord, #12.

Arutiunov, S. A. and D. A. Sergeev

1975  Problemy etnicheskoi istorii beringomor'ia. Moskva: Nauka.

Chard, C. S.

1958  An outline of the prehistory of Siberia: Part 1, the pre-metal period. Southwest Journal of Anthropology 14(1).

1967  Reconstructing human ecology and population history in Prehistoric Northeast Asia. University of Wisconsin.

Davis, E. Mott

1940  The Archeology of Northeastern Asia. Papers, 1 (1). Cambridge, Ma.: Excavator's Club.

Dikov, N. N.

1993  Asia at the Juncture with America in Antiquity: The Stone Age of the Chukchi Peninsula. Richard L. Bland, trans. St. Petersburg: Nauka.

1977  Arkheologicheskie pamiatniki Kamchatki, Chukotki i Verkhnei Kolymy: Aziia na styke s Amerikoi v drevnosti. Moskva: Nauka.

1971  Naskal'nye zagadki drevnei Chukotki: petroglify pegtymelia. Moskva: Nauka.

1969  Drevnie kostry Kamchatki i Chukotki: 15 tysiach let istorii. Magadan: Magadanskoe Knizhnoe Isdatel'stvo.

1968  The discovery of Paleolithic in Kamchatka and the problem of the initial occupation of America. Arctic Anthropology. 5(1).

1965  The stone age of Kamchatka and the Chukchi peninsula in the light of new archeological dates. Arctic Antrhopology. 3(1).

Dikov, N. N., editor

1990  Drevnie pamiatniki severa dal'nogo vostoka: novye materialy i issledovaniia Severo-Vostochno-Aziatskoi kompleksnoi arkheologicheskoi ekspeditsii. Magadan: Nauka.

1980  Noveishie dannye po arkheologii severa dal'nego vostoka (materialy Severo-Vostochno-Aziatskoi kompleksnoi arkheologicheskoi ekspeditsii). Magadan: Nauka.

1974  Ocherki istorii Chukotki s dresvnejwhikh vremen do nashikh dnej. Novosibirsk: Nauka.

Dikova, T. M.

1983  Arkheoligiia iuzhnoj Kamchatki v sviazi s problemoj passeleniia ajnov. Moscow: Nauka.

Dolitsky, Alexander B.

1985  Siberian Paleolithic archaeology: approaches and analytic methods. Current Anthropology. 26:361-68.

Griffin, J. B.

1970  Northeast Asian and Northwest American Ceramics. Proceedings, The Eighth ICAES, vol. 3. Tokyo.

Hopkins D.

1972  The paleogeography of Beringia during late Cenozoic time. Inter-Nord. #12.

Kamchatskii Oblastnoi Kraevedcheskii Muzei

Kraevedcheskie Zapiski. Petropavlovsk-Kamchatskii: Dal'nevostochnoe Knizhnoe Izdatel'svo.
This irregularly published journal by the PK museum includes articles on the archeology, history, and ethnography of Kamchatka.

Klein R.

1971  Pleistocene prehisotry of Siberia. Quaternary Resarch. vol. 1. Seattle.

Larsen, H.

1970  The Eskimo Culture and its relation to Northern Eurasia. Proceedings, Eighth ICAES, vol. 3. Tokyo.

Mazin, A. I. and S. A. Gladyshev

1987  Severnaia Aziia v epokhu kamnia: sbornik nauchnykh trudov. Novosibirsk: Akademiia Nauk SSSR.

Medvedev, V. E., editor

1980  Arkheologicheskii Poisk: Severnaia Aziia. Novosibirsk: Nauka.

Okladnikov, A. P. and R. S. Vasil'evskii

1980  Severnaia Asiia na zare istorii. Novosibirsk: Nauka.

Orekhov, A. A.

1987  Drevniaia kulítura severo-zapadnogo berinogmoríia. Moscow: Nauka.

Powers W.

1973  Paleolithic Man in North Asia. Arctic Anthropology 10(2).

Semenov, A. V.

1965  The Ancient Culture of the Koryak National District. Trans. by Chester S. Chard. Arctic Anthropology 3(1): 107-115.

Skumina, Valentina Aleksandrovna

1979  Novye arkheologicheskie pamiatniki severa dal'nego vostoka. Magadan: Nauka.

Vasil'evskii, R. S.

1964  Ancient Koryak Culture. Trans. by Barbara P. Merbs and Chester S. Chard. American Antiquity. 30(1):19-24. [Originally published in Voprosy Istorii Sibiri i Dal'nego Vostoka. Pp 321-27. Novosibirsk, 1961.]

1969  The origin of ancient Koryak culture on the Northern Okhotsk Coast. Trans. by Chester S. Chard. Arctic Anthropology. 6(1): 150-164.

1971  Proskhozhdenie i drevniaia kul'tura koriakov. Novosibirsk: Nauka.

West, Frederick Hadleigh

1981  The Archeology of Beringia. New York: Columbia University Press.

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Page Date: July 18, 2002


Alexander King, WEBMASTER (at) KORYAKS (dot) NET, University of Aberdeen, Scotland, UK