VARIATION IN MIDDLE AND UPPER PALEOLITHIC TECHNIQUES OF LITHIC REDUCTION AT KARA-BOM, THE ALTAI MOUNTAINS: REFITTING STUDIES

2016 ◽  
Vol 44 (1) ◽  
pp. 39-50
Author(s):  
V.S. Slavinsky ◽  
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E.P. Rybin ◽  
N.E. Belousova ◽  
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...  
Keyword(s):  
Upper Paleolithic ◽  
Altai Mountains ◽  
Lithic Reduction

Lithic reduction in the final Middle and Initial Upper Paleolithic industries of the Kara-Bom site as shown by refitting analysis (technology, closest analogies, chronology)

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 ◽  
pp. 5-51
Author(s):  
V. Slavinsky ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Human Migration ◽  
Upper Paleolithic ◽  
Middle Paleolithic ◽  
Altai Mountains ◽  
Migration Routes ◽  
Northern Asia ◽  
Climatic Fluctuations ◽  
Upper Pleistocene ◽  
Lithic Reduction ◽  
South Siberia

The paper employs the method of refitting to reconstruct the lithic reduction technologies that were used by the Middle Paleolithic and Initial Upper Paleolithic inhabitants of the site of Kara-Bom (Altai Mountains). It is shown that the Middle Paleolithic technology was oriented at the production of points that were mainly struck from convergent single platform (unidirectional) Levallois cores. The Initial Upper Paleolithic industry is characterized by sub-prismatic opposed platform (bidirectional) cores aimed at the production of blades. The author draws many analogies with synchronous industries distributed from the Levant to the east of South Siberia and Central Asia. The available archaeological, chronological and paleogeographic evidence gives grounds to argue that the development of the Paleolithic culture in Northern Asia was strongly affected by climatic fluctuations that took place during the Upper Pleistocene and had a significant impact on human migration routes.

scholarly journals SMALL BLADE TECHNOLOGY IN THE EARLY UPPER PALEOLITHIC INDUSTRIES FROM DENISOVA CAVE: DATA FROM ANALYSIS OF A LITHIC REDUCTION SEQUENCE

2021 ◽  
Vol 70 (1) ◽  
pp. 123-128
Author(s):  
Galina D. Pavlenok ◽  
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Maxim B. Kozlikin ◽  
Michael V. Shunkov ◽  
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...  
Keyword(s):  
Upper Paleolithic ◽  
New Techniques ◽  
Reduction Sequence ◽  
Technological Characteristics ◽  
Lithic Reduction ◽  
Early Upper Paleolithic ◽  
Core Reduction ◽  
Lithic Artifacts ◽  
Early Upper ◽  
Striking Platform

The paper discusses the results from an analysis of five cores associated with Layer 11 in the Southern Chamber of Denisova Cave, intended to obtain small elongated blanks such as bladelets and small blades. Analysis of a lithic reduction sequence employed in the research has made it possible to clearly recognize the phases in producing flake scars on lithic artifacts through the preparation of core blanks, and in core reduction, as well as to determine stages at which some of these pieces were used as tools. The analysis provided insights into a general flaking pattern for the cores under study. Such artifacts were predominantly made on large massive flake blanks, had a plain striking platform, and the working edge showing traces of reduction associated with detaching the target flakes. These technological characteristics are fully consistent with the technological repertoire of a hominin group, based on cores from the same assemblage, intended to obtain larger target removals such as flakes and blades. A cross section of the flaking surface shows no evidence for a deliberately created and maintained convex relief, while typologically four of the five artifacts were defined as sub-prismatic. The analysis of a lithic reduction sequence shows that artifacts from the examined collection related to the production of blanks in the form of small flake-blades, without using new techniques and the controlled reduction of a flaking surface.

The technology of early Upper Paleolithic lithic reduction in Northern Mongolia: The Tolbor-4 site

2007 ◽  
Vol 29 (1) ◽  
pp. 16-38 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. P. Derevianko ◽  
A. N. Zenin ◽  
E. P. Rybin ◽  
S. A. Gladyshev ◽  
A. A. Tsybankov ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Upper Paleolithic ◽  
Lithic Reduction ◽  
Early Upper Paleolithic ◽  
Northern Mongolia ◽  
Early Upper

The Ust'-Kanskaia Paleolithic Cave Site, Siberia

1961 ◽  
Vol 27 (2) ◽  
pp. 203-215 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. I. Rudenko
Keyword(s):  
Southeast Asia ◽  
Central Asia ◽  
Special Interest ◽  
Upper Paleolithic ◽  
Altai Mountains ◽  
Faunal Assemblage ◽  
Paleolithic Site ◽  
Steppe Region ◽  
Faunal Studies ◽  
The Village

AbstractCaves in the western foothills of the Altai Mountains have long been known, and collections of Pleistocene fauna were made a century ago in caves in the middle reaches of the Charysh River which rises in the snow-covered Kargon range on the central Altai. The cave near the village of Ust'-Kan in the upper reaches of the Charysh River, which was discovered and excavated in 1954, is the first Siberian cave site of Paleolithic age to be investigated. The deposits contained a rich and varied fauna including 17 species of mammals and 12 of birds. Of special interest are the extinct spiral-horned antelope and cave hyena. This is the first Paleolithic site at which the yak has been found. This faunal assemblage is typical of a steppe region such as the dry, unforested Central Asiatic tablelands, and is quite distinct from the postglacial fauna from the known open sites of the Siberian Paleolithic in the Yenisei, Angara, and Trans-Baikal regions. The occupation of the site is dated by the fauna to the warm phase just preceding the last Altai glaciation. The artifacts exhibit the massive and archaic characteristics typical of the Siberian Paleolithic in general, but differ completely from artifacts at previously known Late Paleolithic sites considered to be contemporaneous with the European Magdalenian and later. The Ust'-Kanskaia tool assemblage is in the Mousterian tradition and may be related to the Levalloiso-Mousterian developments in neighboring Central Asia. Comparative artifact and faunal studies also suggest correlations with the Upper Paleolithic of the Ordos and the ancient cultures of Southeast Asia.

scholarly journals Chronological Framework of the Siberian Paleolithic: Recent Achievements and Future Directions

Radiocarbon ◽  
2007 ◽  
Vol 49 (2) ◽  
pp. 757-766 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yaroslav V Kuzmin
Keyword(s):  
Russian Far East ◽  
Far East ◽  
Upper Paleolithic ◽  
Northern Eurasia ◽  
Middle Paleolithic ◽  
Neolithic Period ◽  
Altai Mountains ◽  
Radiocarbon Dates ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
The Russian Far East

In Siberia, the accumulation of radiocarbon dates from archaeological sites since the 1960s makes it possible to compile a general Paleolithic 14C database, which contains about 440 entries as of late 2005. With these data, we can reveal the main chronological patterns of Paleolithic complexes, with a focus on the late Middle Paleolithic (Mousterian) and Upper Paleolithic. The 14C dates for late Middle Paleolithic industries in Siberia are quite “young,” up to about 30,000–28,500 BP and perhaps ∼27,000 BP. The emergence of the Upper Paleolithic in Siberia took place relatively early compared with Eastern Europe. At about 43,000–35,000 BP, blade-dominated industries existed in the Altai Mountains and Lake Baikal region, and numerous adornments are known from several sites of that age. The late Upper Paleolithic complexes with microblade technology from the Altai Mountains are 14C dated to about 35,000–28,000 BP, and represent the earliest unequivocal evidence of microblade manufacture in northern Eurasia. The end of the Paleolithic in Siberia is related to the appearance of pottery, which indicates the beginning of the Neolithic period. In northern Transbaikal, the earliest pottery complexes are dated to about 12,000–11,000 BP and in the Russian Far East even to ∼13,000 BP, while in most of Siberia they date to approximately 8000–6000 BP. The most important features of the Siberian Paleolithic chronology are: a) the long persistence of Middle Paleolithic complexes, until about 30,000–27,000 BP; b) very early Middle to Upper Paleolithic transition, ∼43,000 BP, closely connected with the emergence of art and symbolic behavior in the earliest Upper Paleolithic at this time; c) the very early origin of microblade complexes, at least at about 35,000 BP; and d) a gradual Paleolithic–Neolithic transition, beginning in the Russian Far East at ∼13,000 BP and in Transbaikal about 12,000–11,000 BP, in most of Siberia at about 8000–6000 BP, and even later in some northern regions.

RESEARCH INTO MULTI-LAYERED MULTICULTURAL COMPLEXES OF UPPER PRICHUMYSHYE: SITES IN THE ULUS AREA

2021 ◽  
Vol 27 ◽  
pp. 224-230
Author(s):  
Kungurov A. ◽  
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KUNGUROVA O. ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Bronze Age ◽  
Iron Age ◽  
Late Antiquity ◽  
Stone Tools ◽  
Upper Paleolithic ◽  
Archaeological Sites ◽  
Early Iron Age ◽  
Altai Mountains ◽  
Cultural Layers ◽  
The Creation

The Upper Prichumyshye is a region comprising two different orographic zones, the Biysk Chumysh highland and the Salair Ridge. Currently, it is one of the most studied archaeological microdistricts. The peculiarities of the Chumysh valley formation led to the creation of a valley-beam relief with a large number of expressive micro-valleys, capes and small tributaries. In different periods of history, the areas of the valley that were most convenient for living and implementation of appropriating and producing economy, were settled several times. The article presents materials that continue the cycle of publications devoted to the multi-layered archaeological sites of the Upper Prichumyshye (The Tselinnyi Region of the Altai Krai). The work characterizes the settlement of Ulus. This site contains cultural layers of the Upper Paleolithic era, the developed Bronze Age, the early Iron Age and the period of late antiquity. The materials are represented by stone tools, ceramics of various forms and ruined quarry burials of Andronian culture. Initially, the site was opened by the creator of the local museum v. Pobyeda P.F. Ryzhenko in the 50s of the last century. Keywords: Altai mountains, Upper Prichumyshye, archaeology, P.F. Ryzhenko, stone tools, burials, ceramics

The Elachistidae of southern Siberia and Central Asia, with descriptions of five new species (Lepidoptera)¹

1992 ◽  
Vol 3 (4) ◽  
pp. 177-194 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lauri Kaila
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Central Asia ◽  
Baikal Region ◽  
Tianshan Mountains ◽  
Previous Literature ◽  
Altai Mountains ◽  
Southern Siberia

The Elachistidae material collected during the joint Soviet-Finnish entomological expeditions to the Altai mountains, Baikal region and Tianshan mountains of the previous USSR is listed. Previous literature dealing with the Elachistidae in Central Asia is reviewed. A total of 40 species are dealt with, including descriptions of five new species: Stephensia jalmarella sp. n. (Altai), Elachista baikalica sp. n. (Baikal), E. talgarella sp. n. (southern Kazakhstan), E. esmeralda sp. n. (southern Kazakhstan) and E. filicornella sp. n. (southern Kazakhstan). The previously unknown females of E. bimaculata Parenti, 1981 and Biselachista zonulae Sruoga, 1992 are described.

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