Editing Sakha Republic (section)

===Pre-history===
[[Siberia]], and particularly Sakha, is of [[Paleontology|paleontological]] significance, as it contains bodies of [[Prehistory|prehistoric]] animals from the [[Pleistocene]] [[Epoch (geology)|Epoch]], preserved in ice or [[permafrost]]. In 2015, the frozen bodies of [[Panthera leo spelaea#Specimens|Dina and Uyan the cave lion cubs]] were found. Bodies of [[Yuka (mammoth)|Yuka]] and another [[woolly mammoth]] from [[Oymyakon]], a [[woolly rhinoceros]] from the [[Kolyma River]], and [[bison]] and [[horse]]s from [[Yukagir]] have also been found.<ref name=Thesiberiantimes2015>{{Cite web|title = Meet this extinct cave lion, at least 10,000 years old – world exclusive|url = http://siberiantimes.com/science/others/news/n0464-meet-this-extinct-cave-lion-at-least-10000-years-old/|website = siberiantimes.com|access-date=January 30, 2016}}</ref> In June 2019, the severed yet preserved head of a [[Evolution of the wolf#Pleistocene wolves|large wolf from the Pleistocene]], dated to over 40,000 years ago, was found close to the Tirekhtyakh River.<ref name="LiveScience 06-2019">{{cite news |last=Saplakoglu |first=Yasemin |title=Severed Head of a Giant 40,000-Year-Old Wolf Discovered in Russia |newspaper=[[Live Science]] |url=https://www.livescience.com/65677-severed-head-ancient-wolf-russia.html |date=2019-06-10 |access-date=2020-05-16}}</ref><ref name="SiberianTimes 06-2019">{{cite news |newspaper=[[The Siberian Times]] |title=Still snarling after 40,000 years, a giant Pleistocene wolf discovered in Yakutia |url=https://siberiantimes.com/science/casestudy/news/still-snarling-after-40000-years-a-giant-pleistocene-wolf-discovered-in-yakutia/ |date=2019-06-07 |access-date=2020-05-16}}</ref><ref name="TheGuardian 06-2019">{{cite news |agency=[[Reuters]] |title=Frozen wolf's head found in Siberia is 40,000 years old |newspaper=[[The Guardian]] |url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/jun/13/frozen-wolfs-head-found-in-siberia-is-40000-years-old |date=2019-06-13 |access-date=2020-05-16}}</ref>

[[Ymyakhtakh culture]] ({{Circa|2200}}–1300 BC) was a Late Neolithic culture of Siberia, with a very large archaeological horizon. Its origins were in Sakha, in the [[Lena River]] basin. From there it spread both to the east and to the west.<ref>{{cite journal |author=Kicki Näslund |url=https://www.academia.edu/10336011 |title=Short summary of Siberian pre-history and cultures |website=Academia.edu}}</ref>