FIELD RESEARCH ON THE BOLSHOY LYAKHOVSKIY ISLAND (EASTERN RUSSIAN ARCTIC REGION)
The study how the modern human formed at the Eurasian oecumene is always actual for Stone Age History. As a part of this problem the investigation of Late Pleistocene - Early Holocene epoch at the transitional territories such as Western Beringia is the priority direction in modern Paleolithic science. This region was being studied intensively during the last century, but the found stratified sites of this geological boundary are mainly located in inland of the North Eastern Asia. Until quite recently, the islands were poorly explored in this region. Zhokhovo site on the homonymous island and Chertov Ovrag on the Wrangel Island were the single evidences that ancient human inhabited the islands of Russian Arctic Region. Until recently, Lyakhovskiy Islands explored with natural-science methods only. The new occurrences Zimovie-1 and -2 were found out in the Zimovie river basin on the Southern coast of Bolshoy Lyakhovskiy Island. It can be the evidence of Late Pleistocene human colonization in this territory. Collected faunal remains are common with Late Neo-Pleistocene of North Eastern Asia. The target Late Neo-Pleistocene Paleolithic objects are relevant to primal settlement of the paleopopulations. Their investigations will contribute to solution of the problem when modern human appeared and how he developed. It lets to reconstruct the cultural historical process at this territory in Neo-Pleistocene, determine the content of chronocultural Paleolithic epochs and correct their boundaries on the Novosibirsk Islands and Western Beringia.