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

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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'

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