Zhokhov and Arctic transport and exchange
Zhokhov Island site
Permafrost preserved wooden sled components, worked organic materials, fauna, and tools. Obsidian sourcing reveals connections extending far beyond the camp.
Landscapes, communities, and changing institutions
Rivers, lakes, forests, steppe, mountains, and Arctic connections
Then-exposed coastal land, seasonal snow, reindeer, polar bears, driftwood, and distant stone sources shaped mobility.
Political organization and community scale
Coordinated travel and exchange imply social connections, but routes do not prove a centralized state or one northern people.
Later transformation, living heritage, and modern reception
Climate change affects frozen heritage. Local histories and living northern institutions cannot be assigned ancestry from sled technology.
Transfer through networks is an interpretation, not a mapped single journey.
Direct remains and reconstructions must be distinguished.
Their use and morphology do not establish modern breed identity.
Eine kurze, quellengestützte Zeitleiste
Diese Meilensteine dienen der Orientierung und sind keine vollständige Geschichte.
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Camp is occupied near a changing coast
The modern island configuration did not apply unchanged.
Livelihoods, material evidence, and language limits
In diesem Profil genannte Sprachen
- No directly attested local language
Sprachfamilie: Not recoverable from material styles alone
Wooden sled components
Dogs and hunting
Obsidian exchange
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Long-distance exchange of obsidian in the High Arctic during the Early Holocene
Pitulko et al., Antiquity · Primary obsidian-provenancing study · 2019
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Losey et al., Cambridge Archaeological Journal · Peer-reviewed image and animal-relations study · 2021
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The Indigenous World 2026: Russia
International Work Group for Indigenous Affairs · Indigenous-rights organization report · 2026
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Uyuk Tarlak inscription
Uppsala University, Database of Turkic Runiform Inscriptions · Reviewed inscription catalogue · Current academic database
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C8
Baikal Archaeology Project
University of Alberta · University archaeological project · Current project resource
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C9
Radiocarbon-based approach capable of subannual precision resolves the origins of the site of Por-Bajin
Kuitems et al., PNAS · Peer-reviewed dating study · 2020
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Long-distance exchange of obsidian in the High Arctic during the Early Holocene
Pitulko et al., Antiquity · Primary obsidian-provenancing study · 2019
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Archaeological dogs from the Early Holocene Zhokhov site in the Eastern Siberian Arctic
Pitulko and Kasparov, Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports · Peer-reviewed animal and transport study · 2017
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Zhokhov site sledges as a part of the land transportation system of the East Siberian Arctic dwellers 9000 years ago
Pitulko and Pavlova, Camera praehistorica · Museum-hosted primary archaeological study · 2024
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