A team of researchers investigated a western Siberia site known as Amnya that is regarded as the northernmost known Stone Age fortification in Eurasia. The prehistoric fortified settlement is one of several in the region—featuring palisades, banks and ditches—that experts had generally assumed to be too advanced to have been built by hunter-gatherers and therefore no more than a few thousand years old.
But the latest study, published in the journal Antiquity, has revealed that the earliest parts of Amnya were likely constructed around 8,000 years ago, when people in the region still sustained themselves by hunting, gathering and fishing.
The findings indicate that hunter-gatherers in the taiga of western Siberia—a region characterized by vast, flat coniferous forests—constructed complex defensive structures around their settlements this far back in time, which challenges our understanding of early human societies. These fortified settlements were constructed many centuries before comparable structures first appeared in Europe.
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