Human colonization of the Arctic : the interaction between early migration and the paleoenvironment / edited by V.M. Kotlyakov, A.A. Velichko and S.A. Vasil'ev.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 535-607) and index.

Postglacial human colonization of Fennoscandia / Paul M. Dolukhanov -- Northern Scandinavia: synthesis / Hans Peter Blankholm, Bryan Hood and Jan Ingolf Kleppe -- Northern Scandinavia : paleogeography of the Kola Peninsula / Tatyana V. Sapelko -- The early Holocene (Mesolithic) sites on the Kola Peninsula / Vladimir Y. Shumkin -- Eastern Fennoscandia and the adjacent regions of the northwestern East European Plain / Paul M. Dolukhanov, Elena A. Kosheleva, Sergey N. Lisitsyn and Dmitriy A. Subetto -- North of the East European Plain / Alexander V. Volokitin and Yuriy N. Gribchenko -- Environments of the northeastern East European Plain at the time of the initial human colonization / Yuriy N. Gribchenko -- Middle and Upper Paleolithic sites in the northeast of the East European Plain / Pavel Yu. Pavlov -- Environments of the Paleolithic sites in the northeast of the East European Plain / Pavel Yu. Pavlov -- Arctic islands of the Barents and Kara seas / Vadim F. Starkov -- West Siberia / Vladimir S. Zykin, Valentina S. Zykina, Sergey V. Markin and Liybov A. Orlova -- North of West Siberia / Evgeniy M. Besprozvanny, Pavel A. Kosintsev and Andrey A. Pogodin -- Central Siberia (the Yenisey-Lana-Yana region) / Yaroslav Y. Kuzmin -- Western Beringia (northeast Asia) / Sergey B. Slobodin, Patricia M. Anderson, Olga Y. Glushkova and Anatoly V. Lozhkin -- Eastern Beringia : climates and environments during the initial peopling / Patricia M. Anderson and Anatoly V. Lozhkin -- The Paleolithic of eastern Beringia from western Alaska to Canadian Yukon / Kelly E. Graf and Ted Goebel -- Peopling of the eastern Canadian Arctic / Julia M. Ross -- First people in Greenland / Jens F. Jensen, Ulla Odgaard, Svend Funder and Patrick Plumet -- Iceland at the time of initial colonization / Olga A. Markelova -- Expansion of ecumene northward and the diet of the Paleolithic population of Eurasia : Neanderthals and Homo sapiens / Mariya V. Dobrovolskaya -- The Mesolithic population in the north of Eastern Europe (reconstruction of social activity according to archaeological and anthropological data) / Alexandra P. Buzhilova -- Way to north : anthropological evidence of adaptivity of the first inhabitants in the high latitudes / Margarita M. Gerasimova -- Genetic data on peopling high latitude areas / Oleg P. Balanovsky -- Stages of the initial human colonization of Arctic and Subarctic / Andrey A. Velichko, Sergey A. Vasil�ev, Yuriy N. Gribchenko and Elena I. Kurenkova.