Materials specific to Kamchatka and Chukotka are on a separate page.Linguistic materialsare listed in a separate bibliography.
Archeology of North-East Asia is mostly in Russian, but there are some things in English.
Sibirskii Khronograf Publishing House has a catalog of some related materials for purchase in Russian.
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