ICE AGE ASIA
30,000 BC - 7,000 BC
return to History of Asia home



ICE AGE BLANKETS MOST OF THE NORTHERN HEMISPHERE WITH GLACIERS (30,000 BC)




ASIATIC TRIBES IN SIBERIA, WHOSE RELIGION IS SHAMANISM, SURVIVE THE ICE AGE
BY LIVING AROUND THE LIFE-NURTURING SHORES OF LAKE BAIKAL (20,000 BC)




INUITS INHABIT THE ENTIRE ARCTIC CIRCLE (15,000 BC)
INCLUDING NE SIBERIA, ALASKA, CANADA, GREENLAND




AS THE ICE AGE DRAWS TO AN END (8,000 BC)
THE LAKE BAIKAL TRIBES INVENT THE BOW AND ARROW
AND MIGRATE A SHORT DISTANCE EAST
TO THE AMUR RIVER REGION IN NORTHERN MANCHURIA
WHERE THEY ARE KNOWN AS "DONG-I" OR "EAST BOWMEN"




SOCIETY IN NORTHERN MANCHURIA IS LED BY THE FEMALE SHAMAN (8,000 BC)
IN THE REGION WHERE THE MIGHTY AMUR OR SIBERIAN TIGER ORIGINATES




A SECOND GROUP OF LAKE BAIKAL NOMADS, THE "SCYTHIANS,"
BEGINS ROAMING THE STEPPE OF CENTRAL & WESTERN ASIA,
FROM MONGOLIA IN THE EAST,
ACROSS NW CHINA, KRYGYZSTAN, TAJIKISTAN, UZBEKISTAN,
KAZAKHSTAN, AZERBAIJAN, ARMENIA, GEORGIA,
TO TURKEY IN THE WEST (8,000 BC)




A THIRD GROUP OF LAKE BAIKAL NOMADS, THE "TIBETANS,"
MIGRATES SOUTH TO TIBET & THE HIMALAYAN MOUNTAINS (8,000 BC)





A FOURTH GROUP OF LAKE BAIKAL NOMADS, THE "SIBERIAN TATARS,"
MIGRATES AS FAR WEST AS NORWAY AND INHABITS, ALONG WITH THE INUITS,
A VAST BUT MOSTLY STILL ICY SIBERIA (8,000 BC)





DONG-I IN NORTHERN MANCHURIA SPREAD SOUTH TO THE REGION OF PAEKTUSAN,
A VOLCANO WITH PERFECT CRATER LAKE AT THE SUMMIT
ON THE BORDER BETWEEN MANCHURIA & THE KOREAN PENINSULA,
AND SETTLE ALL OF MANCHURIA, NE CHINA, NORTH KOREA (7,500 BC)




SCYTHIANS IN WESTERN ASIA BEGIN TO SETTLE
AT THE TIGRIS AND EUPHRATES RIVERS IN IRAQ (7,500 BC)




AUSTRALOID TRIBES INHABIT JAPAN, SOUTH KOREA, SE CHINA, TAIWAN, INDIA, PAKISTAN,
SRI LANKA, BANGLADESH, BURMA, THAILAND, VIETNAM, CAMBODIA, LAOS, SINGAPORE,
MALAYSIA, PHILIPPINES, PACIFIC ISLANDS, NEW GUINEA, AUSTRALIA (7,500 BC)




EURASIA AT THE END OF THE ICE AGE & BEGINNING OF THE STONE AGE (7,000 BC)


return to History of Asia home