Uploaded December 2023 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
8,000 years ago in the subarctic Siberian taiga, hunter-gatherers started building fortified enclosures, pit houses and ritual mounds. It's not clear what drove these changes but a new research paper presents several ideas related to further fieldwork at the Amnya I site. In this video I discuss this paper, as well as new data that suggests Palaeolithic people ritually amputated fingers and then depicted these hands with missing digits in cave art.
#ancienthistory #huntergatherer #Siberia
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00:00 Introduction
00:45 New study into the northernmost Stone Age fort discovered so far
06:59 New research suggests Palaeolithic groups removed fingers in rituals
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Piezonka, H., Chairkina, N., Dubovtseva, E., Kosinskaya, L., Meadows, J. and Schreiber, T., 2023. The world's oldest-known promontory fort: Amnya and the acceleration of hunter-gatherer diversity in Siberia 8000 years ago. Antiquity, 97(396), pp.1381-1401.
McKie, R. (2023). ‘Many prehistoric handprints show a finger missing. What if this was not accidental?’ Guardian, 23 December. theguardian.com/science/2023/dec/23/prehistoric-handprints-finger-missing-ritually-removed
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Images and diagrams from Amnya site, credit: Piezonka, H. In the paper referenced above.
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Gargas cave, credit: Yoan Rumeau
Hand prints in the Gargas cave, credit: Yoan Rumeau
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Replica of hand prints in the Gargas cave, credit: José-Manuel Benito
8,000 years ago in the subarctic Siberian taiga, hunter-gatherers started building fortified enclosures, pit houses and ritual mounds. It's not clear what drove these changes but a new research paper presents several ideas related to further fieldwork at the Amnya I site. In this video I discuss this paper, as well as new data that suggests Palaeolithic people ritually amputated fingers and then depicted these hands with missing digits in cave art.
#ancienthistory #huntergatherer #Siberia
✨ IN THIS EPISODE
00:00 Introduction
00:45 New study into the northernmost Stone Age fort discovered so far
06:59 New research suggests Palaeolithic groups removed fingers in rituals
✨ JOIN MY CHANNEL
youtube.com/channel/UC0Hs5t0U6Uf993Tba22YmKA/join
✨ FOLLOW ME ON SOCIALS
Bluesky: @MegalithHunter.bsky.social
✨ REFERENCES
Piezonka, H., Chairkina, N., Dubovtseva, E., Kosinskaya, L., Meadows, J. and Schreiber, T., 2023. The world's oldest-known promontory fort: Amnya and the acceleration of hunter-gatherer diversity in Siberia 8000 years ago. Antiquity, 97(396), pp.1381-1401.
McKie, R. (2023). ‘Many prehistoric handprints show a finger missing. What if this was not accidental?’ Guardian, 23 December. theguardian.com/science/2023/dec/23/prehistoric-handprints-finger-missing-ritually-removed
✨ PHOTOGRAPH CREDITS
CC BY 4.0 DEED creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
Images and diagrams from Amnya site, credit: Piezonka, H. In the paper referenced above.
CC BY-SA 4.0 creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0
Gargas cave, credit: Yoan Rumeau
Hand prints in the Gargas cave, credit: Yoan Rumeau
Public domain
Replica of hand prints in the Gargas cave, credit: José-Manuel Benito
