Abstract

Field research in Sel-Ungur Cave, a key site for the study of the Lower and Middle Paleolithic in the western part of the Central Asia, was continued in 2017. Archaeological works at the site in 2014-2016 resulted in identification of a new industrial variant of the Central Asian Middle Paleolithic with a relatively early chronology, based on lithic complexes from layers 4-6 in the area before the entrance to the cave. This industry technologically and typologically differs from other Middle Paleolithic complexes of the region. At a new phase of research, excavations in the entrance zone were continued, which resulted in obtaining new assemblages, technologically and typologically similar to the Middle Paleolithic complexes mentioned above, but with the earlier chronological context.

Keywords

Middle Paleolithic, Central Asia, chronology, stratigraphy

Krivoshapkin A.I.

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5327-3438

Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography SB RAS
Novosibirsk State University

Viola B.

University of Toronto, Canada

Chargynov T.

Kyrgyzstan National University

Krajcarz M.

https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3720-5926

Institute of Geological Sciences, Research Centre, Poland

Kolobova K.A.

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5757-3251

Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography SB RAS
Novosibirsk State University

Shnaider S.V.

https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2230-4286

Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography SB RAS
Novosibirsk State University

References

Krivoshapkin A.I., Viola B., Chargynov T., Kraitsarzh M., Kolobova K.A., Shnaider S.V., Romanenko M.E. Issledovaniya srednepaleoliticheskikh komplek-sov peshchery Sel’ungur v polevom sezone 2016 goda/ In Problems of Archaeology, Ethnography, Anthropology of Siberia and Neighboring Territories. Novosibirsk: IAET SB RAS Publ. 2016, vol. XXII, pp. 94-99 (in Russ.).

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Vishnyatsky L.B. The Palaeolithic of Central Asia. Journal of World Prehistory, 1999, No. 13, pp. 69-122.

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Viola B., Krivoshapkin A.I. Sel’ungur - Middle Plistocene Hominins in Central Asia? // Cultural developments in the Eurasian Paleolithic and the origin of anatomically modern humans. - Novosibirsk: IAET SB RAS Publ., 2014. - P. 172-178.

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