ACCELERATOR RADIOCARBON DATING OF THE INITIAL UPPER PALEOLITHIC IN SOUTHEAST SIBERIA

Across Eurasia and Africa new studies are encouraging archaeologists t o rethink the age of of the Middle to Upper Palaeolithic transition. i n the Lake Baikal region of southeast Siberia, new radiocarbon determi nations on sites of difficult history suggest that the earliest Upper Palaeolithic emerged there as early as 39,000 years ago, 6000 years ea rlier than previously thought.