Publication details
Ethnoarchaeology of Nenets Campsites, Cases of Yangana Pe and Oktyaberskaya (Polar Mts., Northwestern Siberia)
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| Year of publication | 2010 |
| Type | Article in Periodical |
| Magazine / Source | Přehled výzkumů |
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| Field | Archaeology, anthropology, ethnology |
| Keywords | Ethnoarchaeology; Siberia; Polar Ural; Nenets; natural resources; activities; settlement structure; settlement zonality |
| Description | As a part of an investigation of Nenets settlement patterns (Northwest Siberia) in summer 2009, we documented active summer campsites at lakes and abandoned winter and spring campsites in open tundra (mountain ridge of Yangana Pe) and forest tundra (Oktyaberskaya, north of Labytnangi). Discussion of the floristical and zoological potentials of tundra, forest tundra, and forest for nutriture shows that plant resources and fish are available predominantly in summer while reindeer occur in these regions during fall, winter and spring, as they return from summer pastures further to the north. Movements of the individual Nenets families depend on ownership of sufficient reindeer. Missing components of the nutriture are substituted by purchasing consumer products. These comparsion is enriched by Upper Paleolithic evidence from central European hunters settlements which display a basically similar camp structure, zonality but include (of course) different types of objects and activities. |