Tarya Neolithic

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The Tarya tradition extends from around 4000 to 2500 BP in the central and southern Kamchatka peninsula. The people were semi-sedentary hunters-gatherers-fishers. Their food included land mammals, sea mammals and salmon. They used flaked and ground stone tools and lived in semi-subterranean houses in the winter and framework houses on posts above ground in the summer.

Identifier

Region

• Asia

Subregion

• North Asia

Subsistence Type

• hunter-gatherers

Samples

• SRS

Countries

• Russia