Issues of the development of hunting in traditional societies of North Asia in modern publications

Based on the analysis of Russian-language literature of the last decade, the paper presents a picture of the current state of published works on the development of hunting in traditional societies of Siberia and the Far East from ancient times to the arrival of Russians. A list of publishing cities and publishing centers, the volume of publications, their typology and circulations are given; specific epochs and territories that were considered in the works are named. The topic of publications is given, examples of the structure of works and some points of view of the authors on the development of hunting in the region in antiquity and the Middle Ages are given. It is concluded that in the second and early third decades of the XXI century, the publication of works that dealt with the history of hunting in the aboriginal societies of Siberia and the Far East was quite active. A list of publishing cities is presented. It was found that mostly articles published in various continuing and periodicals were published. The monographs, which contained information about hunting, were works of a generalizing nature. The works, where there was information about the development of hunting, covered various areas: Trans-Urals, Baraboo, Upper and Lower Ob, Altai, Baikal, Transbaikalia, Amur region, Northeast Asia, etc. The development of hunting in different eras before the arrival of the Russians is highlighted, but especially great attention was paid to the Paleolithic era. The subjects of the works were different: the composition of animals, an overview of fauna, issues of paleoecology, the influence of climate, a set of hunting equipment, the use of dogs and sleds, hunting techniques, specialization of hunting activities. The authors’ points of view given in the work allow us to speak about the breadth of their interests in studying this problem, and that the main attention was paid to the set of animals that were hunted at one time or another.