Prehistory of Siberia Siberia were hunter-gatherers, whose prey consisted of mammoths and reindeer, and occasionally fish as well. In the 6th millennium BC, pottery spread across the whole of Siberia, which scholars treat as the beginning of the Siberian neolithic. Unlike Europe and the Near East, this event did not mark a major change in lifestyle, economy or culture. The prehistoric inhabitants of the vast areas of taiga and tundra east of the Yenissei and north of Baikal differ in many ways from the prehistoric cultures of the other parts of north Asia. There is stronger evidence than usual for settlement continuity here
Red-finned blue-eye small crustacean, a flatworm, a spider and a dragonfly are restricted to springs in the same reserve and also threatened. Red-finned blue-eye The red-finned blue-eye ("Scaturiginichthys vermeilipinnis") is a tiny, critically endangered species of fish in the Pseudomugilidae family and the only species in its genus. The species was discovered in 1990. It is endemic to Central Queensland in Australia, where restricted to springs in Bush Heritage's Edgbaston Reserve. Here they live in shallow, slightly salty water that can vary from near freezing in the winter to in the summer. It reaches up to in length and only males have