Abstract

This article presents the data from the 2017 study of the upper strata in the deposits at the stratified Paleolithic site of Ushbulak-1 (East Kazakhstan). Excavation over the area of 6 m2 was made in the upper part of an exploratory trench of 2016, reaching the depth of 3.4. m from the ground surface (layers 1-3). The stratigraphic profile has revealed three major depositional units which contained scarce archaeological evidence. The total number of artifacts was 189 objects. Technical and typological characteristics of the archaeological materials and their position in the stratigraphic sequence made it possible to tentatively recognize two assemblages which seem to have occurred at different times - the first one in the Holocene (layer 1), and the second one in the Final Pleistocene (layers 2-3). Based on the characteristics of the materials and similarities with the records from the stratified complexes in Southern Siberia, the evidence from the Pleistocene deposits could most likely be attributed to the Final Upper Paleolithic.

Keywords

East Kazakhstan, stratified site, stratigraphic profile, Holocene, Pleistocene, Final Upper Paleolithic

Pavlenok G.D.

https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3727-776X

Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography SB RAS

Anoykin А.А.

https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2383-2259

Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography SB RAS
Novosibirsk State University

Taimagambetov Zh.K.

https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3541-0600

National Museum of the Republic of Kazakhstan

Ulianov V.A.

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7798-0399

M.V. Lomonosov Moscow State University

Kharevich (Shalagina) A.V.

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2267-2452

Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography SB RAS

Harevich V.M.

https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2632-6888

Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography SB RAS

Markovsky G.I.

https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2698-707X

Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography SB RAS

Gladyshev S.A.

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7443-654X

Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography SB RAS

Chekha A.M.

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2427-7480

Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography SB RAS

Iskakov G.T.

Kazakh State Museum of Azret Sultan

Vasiliev S.K.

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6863-7900

Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography SB RAS

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