Table of Contents

PART 1 REGIONS OF INITIAL COLONIZATION 1. European North 2. Siberian North 3. Beringia (North-East of Asia, Alaska, Yukon) 4. Canadian North, Greenland, Iceland 5. Greenland 6. Iceland

PART 2 SPECIFIC FEATURES OF THE INITIAL COLONIZATION 7. Expansion of the oecumene northwards and paleodiet tradition on the Paleolithic humans in Eurasia: Neanderthals and Modern Humans 8. Mesolithic population in the north of Eastern Europe 9. Way to North: anthropological evidence of adaptive abilities of the first inhabitants in the High Latitudes 10. Genetic data on the colonization of the High Latitudes 11. Stages of initial human colonization of Arctic and Subarctic

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About the Author

Dr Kotlyakov is a world leading glaciologist, investigator of both Arctic and Antarctic regions. He is one of the early researchers to substantiate the relationship between human activity and climate change. In fact, V.M. Kotlyakov is a laureate of Nobel Peace Prize given in 2007 to the Intergovernmental Group of Experts for Climate Problem. The late Dr Velichko was one of top specialists in paleogeography, known for his works on the history of Man and Nature interaction. He was the first chair and founded he IGU Commission for Environment Evolution. At the time of his death he was the head of the Laboratory of Evolutionary Geography, within the Institute of Geography of the Academy of Sciences. He was renowned for his work in Late Cenozoic paleoclimatology and paleoecology of Early Man, as well as his expertise in the analysis of the environment and climate evolution. Dr Vasil’ev is a Professor with the Institute for the History of Material Culture at the Russian Academy of Sciences. He is a foremost archeologist whose studies are centered on the Early Man colonization of the middle and high latitudes of the Northern Hemisphere.