25,000-Year-Old Advanced Ice Age Site of Mal'ta | Ancient Architects

Siberia is a huge but often overlooked landmass when discussing the human story, and although intensive excavations have taken place in the past century, it is still quite a poorly understood region in the prehistoric era.

It’s estimated that the earliest human occupation was some time around 40,000 years ago, with small groups of big-game hunters migrating into this region from the west, living in harsh climatic conditions and long, dry winters.

By around 20,000 years ago, two principal cultural traditions had emerged, the Afontova Gora, which comprises a number of archaeological sites on the banks of the Yenisei River, and the Mal’ta-Buret, situated on the upper Angara River in the area west of Lake Baikal in the Irkutsk Oblast.

The Mal’ta-Buret Culture is named after the two principle archaeological sites, Mal’ta and Buret and they do, without doubt, bring forth some of the most breathtaking finds ever recovered from the Ice Age world.

In this video I take a look at the Mal'ta Palaeolithic Site, the best understood and show some of the incredible, unique and relatively advanced discoveries from this long forgotten Ice Age culture.

I also follow on from my previous video and take a short look at Palaeolithic migrations of hunter-gatherers and how Siberia may well be the key to understanding not just the development of European and Middle Eastern civilisations, but also the Americas.

All images are taken form Google Images and the below sources for educational purposes only. Please subscribe to Ancient Architects, Like the video and please leave a comment below.

Sources:
The Siberian Paleolithic site of Mal'ta: a unique source for the study of childhood archaeology, Liudmila Lbova, 28 January 2021, Cambridge University Press
The Formation of the Aurignacian in Europe, Janusz K. Kozlowski and Marcel Otte, Journal of Anthropological Research, Vol. 56, No. 4 (Winter, 2000), pp. 513-534
Upper Palaeolithic Siberian genome reveals dual ancestry of Native Americans, Maanasa Raghavan et al, Nature. 2014 Jan 2; 505(7481), pp. 87–91.
The Pleistocene Art of Asia, Bednarik, Robert G, 1994, Journal of World Prehistory. 8 (4), pp. 351–75
Northeast Asia in Prehistory, Chard, Chester S, (1974), Madison, WI: The University of Wisconsin Press.
Siberian Paleolithic Archaeology: Approaches and Analytic Methods, Dolitsky, A.B. and Ackerman. R.E. et al, (1985), Current Anthropology. 26 (3), pp. 361–78.
Delporte H., 1979: L'image de la femme dans l'art préhistorique, Paris, Picard.
Bednarik R., 2010: An overview of Asian palaeoart of the Pleistocene, IFRAO Congress, September 2010 – Symposium: Pleistocene art of Asia (Pre-Acts)

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[AncientArchitects]

I first released this video in 2022 but I needed to make a few adjustments/updates to the content, so here it is re-released! Thanks for watching everyone.

[koustav]

I lost this channel 1 year a go I found it today very happy

[barrywalser]

Fascinating information, as always. The artwork found at Mal’ta was stunning. Thanks for sharing with us Matt!

[kariannecrysler]

I enjoyed the updated version of this very much. Thanks for all the hard work putting these together for us all.✌️💗🤘

[mirandamom]

Ok, I have to admit that I was expecting a video on archaeological sites of Malta. 😬

[floydriebe]

hi, Matt! re-released with some changes....always good....the history of humans changes with every new discovery....thanks to you and a few colleagues, we are kept up to date👍🤩 thank you!

[tarkajedi]

I FOUND THIS ENLIGHTENING. YOUR WORK AS ALWAYS IS

[robertevans]

Sharing ... I was there 10 years ago, and found MALTA a great place to visit :)

[dalekiernan]

Once again you have done a great job in explaining something that is incredibly hard to explain and is ongoing research. Thanx!

[onenewworldmonkey]

Not knowing this site or much about this area of the world made me watch like a child watching a Christmas movie. I was glued. Thank you.
It makes me wonder about the topography and the routes of caribou migrations and how or if they correlate to the human ranges you showed with the arrows.

[free_gold]

I learn so much from your channel, fantastic quality content, thank you.

[StephiSensei]

Super Matt! Great information. Thank you so much.

[alpha_echo_diDi]

Nice and informative video, nice work Matt 👍🏻

[debbralehrman]

Thanks for video always enjoy the information you bring. 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼🌺

[graemerigg]

As someone who collects modern figurines it's amazing to find we have been doing it for over 25000 years.

[rhondasisco-cleveland]

I’ve been waiting for discoveries of ice age settlements. There’s probably so much underwater. They would have sought out lowlands, (mountains are colder) and the ice lowered water levels, so most sites would obviously be underwater now.

[OkieSketcher]

Interesting. I enjoyed listening and learning a few things. Thanks.

[sahastintitli]

Quite the same artwork on ivory as the "dame de Brassempouy" from France known as the oldest face representation dated 25000 years ago
The Lady of Brassempouy, also called Lady with the Hood, is an ivory figurine representing a human head, dating from the Upper Paleolithic (Gravettian, 29 to 22, 000 years AD). Discovered in 1894 in France, in the Landes commune of Brassempouy by the prehistorian Édouard Piette, this iconic representation of prehistory constitutes one of the oldest realistic representations of a human face, and undoubtedly even the oldest known .

[leecatherall]

Yet another great video, big thanks as always x x x

[janetmontgomery-rj]

Very interest info and ideas I haven't seen elsewhere but I am very interested in the back migrations and mixing that. Humans have done over ancient history and how interconnected we are.... Much more than we realise. It's great. This area of siberia will I am sure reveal much fascinating history about human kind thank you for this site