Ymyyakhtakh culture

The Ymyyakhtakh culture (ɯm-mɯ-yakh-takh, Russian: Ымыяхтахская культура, romanized: Ymyyakhtakhskaya kul'tura) was a Late Neolithic culture of Siberia, with a very large archaeological horizon, dating to c. 2200–1300 BC.

A. Golovnev discusses Ymyyakhtakh culture in the context of a “circumpolar syndrome”: The Ymyyakhtakh made round-bottomed ceramics with waffle and ridge prints on the outer surface.

Stone and bone arrowheads, spears and harpoons are richly represented.

The carriers of culture are identified either with the Yukaghirs ethnic group,[3] or perhaps with the Chukchi and Koryaks.

[4] A ceramic complex comparable to the Ymyyakhtakh culture (typified by pottery with an admixture of wool) is also found in northern Fennoscandia near the end of the second millennium BC.