MAIK Nauka/Interperiodica, Archaeology, Ethnology and Anthropology of Eurasia / Arkheologija, Ehtnografija i Antropologija Evrazii, 2(41), p. 73-82, 2013
DOI: 10.1016/j.aeae.2013.11.007
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The article presents the results of a palynological study conducted at Late Paleolithic (Olympiya-5 and Ogonki-5) and Early Neolithic (Slavnaya-5) sites located in the southern part of Sakhalin Island. The reconstructed environments f Late Paleolithic sites in southern Sakhalin included dark coniferous ( r and spruce) forests, indicative of a relatively warm phases of the last stadial coinciding with Daansgard-Oeschger oscillations. The Early Holocene conditions in southern Sakhalin were relatively warm although a virtually complete absence of pollen of deciduous trees suggests that the Boreal period was not the Holocene climatic optimum in that region.