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Was the Kamchatka peninsula settled before 3000BC?

by Pengee1235

The earliest date I can find is 1697 for when the Cossacks imposed taxes on the native Alyutors. (Wikipedia)

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Yes, there are a number of important Palaeolithic sites known from around Ushki Lake in Kamchatka. They date to about 13,000 years ago:

Goebel, Waters & Dikova. 2003. The Archaeology of Ushki Lake, Kamchatka, and the Pleistocene Peopling of the Americas. Science 301(5632). doi:10.1126/science.1086555