Abstract
The Orkhon Valley in Mongolia is the one of those rare regions where archaeology indicates very intensive exploitation during the Paleolithic. In the 1980s, the stratified Orkhon-1, -7, and Moiltyn-am sites were discovered and investigated in the Orkhon Valley near Kharkhorin, along with abundant surface occurrences of archaeological material. Nearly every location of convenient, flat ground along a minimally 13 km stretch of the river's second terrace yields signs of human occupation during the Upper Pleistocene. Many of these sites were excavated decades ago and need to be re-dated, especially the Middle Paleolithic complexes, which have not yet been associated with reliable chronometric dates at all. New excavations at Orkhon-1 were initiated in 2018 primarily to obtain samples for radiocarbon and OSL dating.
Keywords
Central Asia, Mongolia, Middle Paleolithic, chronostratigraphy, Orkhon Valley
Khatsenovich A.M.
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8093-5716
Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography SB RAS
Rybin E.P.
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7434-2757
Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography SB RAS
Olsen J.W.
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5295-7451
Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography SB RAS
University of Arizona, USA
Gunchinsuren B.
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5052-5081
Institute of History and Archaeology MAS
Bazargur D.
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2183-0591
Institute of History and Archaeology MAS
Marchenko D.V.
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3021-0749
Novosibirsk State University
Klementiev A.M.
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2129-7072
Institute of the Earth’s Crust SB RAS
Kogai S.A.
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4232-9587
Irkutsk State University
Shelepaev R.A.
V.S. Sobolev Institute of Geology and Mineralogy SB RAS
Popov A.Yu.
A.A. Trofi muk Institute of Petroleum Geology and Geophysics SB RAS
Kravtsova A.S.
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8709-5935
Novosibirsk State University
Shevchenko T.A.
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3405-7086
Novosibirsk State University
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