Abstract

Northern Mongolia has yielded a number of important Upper Paleolithic sites; most of them are concentrated in the Middle Selenga. In 2018, an excavation team of the Russian-Mongolian Archaeological Expedition surveyed the Middle and Upper Kharganyn-Gol River, a tributary of the Middle Selenga River, Northern Mongolia. Four Paleolithic sites were studied. The site of Kharganyn-Gol-13 yielded an impressive initial Upper Paleolithic complex. Assemblages from other established sites have been correlated to the subsequent stage, i.e. the early Upper Paleolithic.

Keywords

Upper Paleolithic, Mongolia, stratigraphy, chronology, archaeological reconnaissance

Rybin E.P.

https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7434-2757

Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography SB RAS

Kogai S.A.

https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4232-9587

Irkutsk State University

Khatsenovich A.M.

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8093-5716

Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography SB RAS

Gunchinsuren B.

https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5052-5081

Institute of History and Archaeology MAS

Angaragdulguun G.

Institute of History and Archaeology MAS

Volvakh A.O.

V.S. Sobolev Institute of Geology and Mineralogy SB RAS

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Khatsenovich A.M., Rybin E.P., Gunchinsuren B., Olsen J.W., Shelepaev R.A., Zotkina L.V., Bolorbat Ts., Popov A.Yu., Odsuren D. New Evidence for Paleolithic Human Behavior in Mongolia: the Kharganyn Gol 5 site // Quaternary International. - 2017. - Vol. 442. - P. 78-94.