25,000-Year-Old Advanced Ice Age Site of Mal’ta | Ancient Architects

Siberia is a huge but often overlooked landmass when discussing the human story, and although intensive excavations have taken place in the past century, it is still quite a poorly understood region in the prehistoric era. It’s estimated that the earliest human occupation was some time around 40,000 years ago, with small groups of big-game hunters migrating into this region from the west, living in harsh climatic conditions and long, dry winters. By around 20,000 years ago, two principal cultural traditions had emerged, the Afontova Gora, which comprises a number of archaeological sites on the banks of the Yenisei River, and the Mal’ta-Buret, situated on the upper Angara River in the area west of Lake Baikal in the Irkutsk Oblast. The Mal’ta-Buret Culture is named after the two principle archaeological sites, Mal’ta and Buret and they do, without doubt, bring forth some of the most breathtaking finds ever recovered from the Ice Age world. In this video I take a look at the Mal’ta Palaeolithic Site, the best understood and show some of the incredible, unique and relatively advanced discoveries from this long forgotten Ice Age culture. I also follow on from my previous video and take a short look at Palaeolithic migrations of hunter-gatherers and how Siberia may well be the key to understanding not just the development of European and Middle Eastern civilisations, but also the Americas. All images are taken form Google Images and the below sources for educational purposes only. Please subscribe to Ancient Architects, Like the video and please leave a comment below. Sources: The Siberian Paleolithic site of Mal’ta: a unique source for the study of childhood archaeology, Liudmila Lbova, 28 January 2021, Cambridge University Press The Formation of the Aurignacian in Europe, Janusz K. Kozlowski and Marcel Otte, Journal of Anthropological Research, Vol. 56, No. 4 (Winter, 2000), pp. 513-534 Upper Palaeolithic Siberian genome reveals dual ancestry of Native Americans, Maanasa Raghavan et al, Nature. 2014 Jan 2; 505(7481), pp. 87–91. The Pleistocene Art of Asia, Bednarik, Robert G, 1994, Journal of World Prehistory. 8 (4), pp. 351–75 Northeast Asia in Prehistory, Chard, Chester S, (1974), Madison, WI: The University of Wisconsin Press. Siberian Paleolithic Archaeology: Approaches and Analytic Methods, Dolitsky, A.B. and Ackerman. R.E. et al, (1985), Current Anthropology. 26 (3), pp. 361–78. Delporte H., 1979: L’image de la femme dans l’art préhistorique, Paris, Picard. Bednarik R., 2010: An overview of Asian palaeoart of the Pleistocene, IFRAO Congress, September 2010 – Symposium: Pleistocene art of Asia (Pre-Acts) #AncientArchitects #Palaeolithic #MaltaBuret