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Research into the Upper Paleolithic of northeastern Asia began in the 1940s. Recent work has led to the discovery of numbers of sites, some of them more than 30,000 years old, which are assigned to the D'uktai culture. The material recovered from these sites indicates relationships between the D'uktai culture and other cultures in Europe, Japan, Korea, China, and North America. For the most part, however, these similarities do not result from a spread of cultural traits from Europe into Asia. Instead, most of them reflect local development of the Upper Paleolithic, within both Asia and Europe, out of local Middle Paleolithic industries, which were themselves originally similar in technology and typology.
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Larichev, V., Khol'ushkin, U. & Laricheva, I. The Upper Paleolithic of Northern Asia: Achievements, problems, and perspectives. III. Northeastern Siberia and the Russian Far East. J World Prehist 6, 441–476 (1992). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00975634
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