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
Honey blue-eye ornatus"), crimson-spotted rainbowfish ("Melanotaenia duboulayi"), empire gudgeon ("Hypseleotris compressa"), firetailed gudgeon ("Hypseleotris galii"), and western carp gudgeon ("Hypseleotris klunzingeri"), and occasionally with the Oxleyan pygmy perch ("Nannoperca oxleyana") or Pacific blue-eye. Originally classified as "vulnerable" in 1988, the honey blue-eye was reclassified as "endangered" by the IUCN in 1996. It is listed as "vulnerable" under the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 nationally in Australia, and under state-based legislation in Queensland. Its habitat is fragmented as it lies on the fringes of large urban areas, much of which has been subjected to massive development. Within its range, three invasive