Sergey Markin
Biographic Data
| ID | 89064 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sergey Markin |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sergey |
| FAMILY NAME | Markin |
| SIGNATURE | MARKIN S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4528-8613 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 38 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 113 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 38 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Biface Trimming Elements as Indicators of Tool Rejuvenation Intensity
Biface trimming elements represent an important diagnostic source of information for studying various stages of bifacial tool production. In Middle Paleolithic assemblages, they often constitute a significant portion of the sample, making them particularly useful for identifying specific technological operations such as primary reduction and shaping of bifacial preforms, edge formation and retouching, working edge rejuvenation, and modification o…
Biface Trimming Elements as Indicators of Tool Rejuvenation Intensity
Бифасиальные технические сколы, или сколы утончения бифасов (bifacial thinning flakes), представляют собой важный диагностический источник информации для изучения различных стадий бифасиального производства. В среднепалеолитических каменных коллекциях они нередко составляют значительную часть археологического материала, что позволяет использовать их для определения конкретных технологических операций, включая первичную обработку и фасоннаж бифаси…
Early Nyapan Stage of the Kaminnaya Cave (Northwestern Altai)
This article presents the results of comprehensive research on the archaeological materials derived from the deposits of Layer 14a in Kaminnaya Cave, associated with the initial Nyapan phase of the Sartan (Akkem) horizon (MIS 2) in the Northwestern Altai. The objective of this study is to characterize a range of materials pertaining to the habitat and culture of fossil humans during one of the phases of the terminal stage of the Upper Paleolithic…
Unshaped Bone Tools of the Final Upper Paleolithic from Kaminnaya Cave in the Altai
This article introduces into scientific use a collection of unshaped bone tools discovered in Kaminnaya Cave in the northwest Altai. The cultural and chronological column of this site currently represents the most complete sequence of the final Upper Paleolithic in the region. The cave lithic industry has been described in detail previously. In order to identify possible practice of bone use in toolmaking activities of the late Paleolithic inhabi…
Morphometric Study of Cut Marks on Faunal Remains from Chagyrskaya Cave
The authors define the types of tools used by Neanderthals of Chagyrskaya Cave (Altai) for the terminal stages of carcass processing (meat cutting) through a comprehensive morphometric analysis of cut marks on paleofaunal remains. The research methodology integrates traditional metric analysis with a modern geometric morphometric approach, enabling quantitative assessment of the microprofile shape of cut marks. Using an industrial profilometer, 2…
Prey Selection and Transport Patterns in Neanderthal Bison Hunting
The article examines the hunting strategies employed by Neanderthals at Chagyrskaya Cave (Altai, Russia) through a comprehensive taphonomic and zooarchaeological analysis of Bison priscus remains from Upper Pleistocene deposits. The research focuses on prey selection — specifically, the age and sex composition of hunted individuals and the preferential transportation of specific carcass segments to the cave. Taphonomic evidence confirms that the …
Industry of Okladnikov Cave Layer 3 in the Context of the Sibiryachikha Complexes of the Altai Mountains
This paper presents the results of a comprehensive analysis of lithics from layer 3 of Okladnikov Cave and their relevance to the Sibiryachikha industries of the Altai Mountains. Attribute analysis has shown that the industry of layer 3 demonstrates technological and typological similarities with the Sibiryachikha industries. These include radial flaking with an offset technological axis, a predominance of convergent side-scrapers, and a series o…
A New Approach to the Study of Flaking Sequence Integrity Based on the Chagyrskaya Cave Assemblage, Northwestern Altai
This paper presents a new approach to assessing the integrity of flaking sequences at Paleolithic sites. It combines experimental modeling with subsequent attribute analysis of the archaeological collection. The method is based on changes in the proportion of various technical spalls at different stages of core and bifacial reduction, as well as changes in the sizes of cortical flakes. This methodology was applied to reconstruct the strategy of t…
A New Approach to the Study of Flaking Sequence Integrity Based on the Chagyrskaya Cave Assemblage, Northwestern Altai
В статье приводятся результаты применения нового методического подхода к определению целостности цикла расщепления на стоянке. В его основе лежит экспериментальное моделирование с последующим атрибутивным анализом полученной археологической коллекции. Подход базируется на динамике изменения доли отдельных типов технических снятий на разных стадиях нуклеусного и бифасиального расщепления, а также размеров сколов с кортикальной поверхностью. Разраб…
Industry of Okladnikov Cave Layer 3 in the Context of the Sibiryachikha Complexes of the Altai Mountains
В статье представлены результаты комплексного анализа археологической коллекции слоя 3 пещеры Окладникова и ее интерпретация в контексте сибирячихинских индустрий Горного Алтая. Исследование с использованием атрибутивного подхода выявило в каменной индустрии слоя 3 технико-типологические черты, характерные для сибирячихинских комплексов: ориентация первичного расщепления на изготовление отщепов со смещенной осью скалывания в рамках радиального ме…
Sibiryachikha Variant of the Altai Middle Paleolithic
The article discusses the general results, debatable issues and prospects of research on the complexes of Late European or Chagyrskaya Neanderthals in the Altai and other territories of North and Central Asia. The history of the study of the Sibiryachikha complexes is given, where the search for cultural and technological analogues of the sites in the Okladnikov cave among the known Micoquian assemblages at the end of the 20th century is argued. …
Variability in the Sibiryachikha Assemblages of the Altai Mountains (Based on Materials from Okladnikov Cave Layer 2)
В статье на основе новых данных, полученных в результате комплексного изучения материалов из слоя 2 пещеры Окладникова, рассматривается вариабельность среднепалеолитических сибирячихинских комплексов Горного Алтая. С привлечением новых методов исследования (анализ последовательности сколов, экспериментально-трасологический, атрибутивный анализы и др.) уточнены характеристики комплекса: расширена номенклатура технических сколов, связанных с радиал…
Variability in the Sibiryachikha Assemblages of the Altai Mountains (Based on Materials from Okladnikov Cave Layer 2)
This article, based on new data from comprehensive studies of assemblage from Okladnikov Cave layer 2, explores the variability of Middle Paleolithic Sibiryachikha variant of the Altai Mountains. Using methods such as scar pattern analysis, experimental use-wear analysis, attributive analysis, etc., we specify the characteristics of the assemblage by extending the nomenclature of technical fl akes relating to radial fl aking, evaluating the share…
The east of the Neanderthal universe
Late European Neanderthals, associated with the Micoquian techno-complex, spread over vast area from Western Europe to the Altai. There were no sites found in the territories to the east of the Volga region. The key site of the Eastern Micoquian, Sukhaya Mechetka, which was discovered in 1951 in the Volgograd region, was for a long time the eastern outpost of Neanderthals in Eurasia. In the last five years, the results of paleogenetic analysis ha…
Maxillary second molar from the Rozhok I Micoquian site (Azov Sea region)
A Case of Chronic Maxillary Sinusitis in a Late Neanderthal Population of the Altai Mountains
We describe a likely case of chronic maxillary sinusitis (CMS) in a Neanderthal skeletal sample from Chagyrskaya Cave, in the Altai Mountains. Signs of CMS were recorded in the Chagyrskaya 57 specimen, which is a fragment of a left maxilla. Alveoli of the upper fi rst molar are partially preserved, and so are the second and third upper molars, with adjacent parts of the walls, and the fl oor of the maxillary sinus. The fragment was found in layer…
How Neanderthals gripped retouchers
Percussive-Abrasive Stone Tools from Chagyrskaya Cave
В статье представлены результаты комплексного исследования каменных ударно-абразивных орудий активного действия из Чагырской пещеры с использованием экспериментально-трасологического и статистического методов, дополненных 3D-моделированием. Проведенные эксперименты в сочетании с трасологическим анализом позволили определить функции этих орудий путем сопоставления рабочих зон и следов утилизации на инструментах в полученной эталонной и археологиче…
Natural Scientifi c and Archaeological Evidence from the Pleistocene Layers of Kaminnaya Cave
This article discusses the results of a comprehensive study of Pleistocene sediments from Kaminnaya Cave located in mid-elevation erosional middle mountains of the Northwestern Altai, where a variety of material evidence on ancient human environment and culture has been found. The stratigraphic sequences of the site are constituted by loamy deposits often enriched by products of bedrock disintegration. Geomorphology, stratigraphy, biostratigraphy…
Percussive-Abrasive Stone Tools from Chagyrskaya Cave
This article presents a comprehensive study of percussive-abrasive active stone tools from Chagyrskaya Cave, using experimental use-wear and statistical methods, supplemented by 3D-modeling. Experiments combined with use- wear analysis allowed us to determine the functions of these tools by comparing the working surfaces and use-wear traces in the Chagyrskaya samples with those in the reference samples. As a result, we identified 19 retouchers, f…
Dietary evidence from Central Asian Neanderthals
Neanderthals are known primarily from their habitation of Western Eurasia, but they also populated large expanses of Northern Asia for thousands of years. Owing to a sparse archaeological record, relatively little is known about these eastern Neanderthal populations. Unlike in their western range, there are limited zooarchaeological and paleobotanical studies that inform us about the nature of their subsistence. Here, we perform a combined analys…
Complex Study of a Personal Ornament Made on a Marmot Incisor from the Early Holocene Complex of Kaminnaya Cave (Russian Altai)
The article presents the oldest evidence of non- utilitarian use of marmot incisors in North Asia. The ornamented marmot incisor comes from the Early Holocene layer of the Kaminnaya Cave. The artifact was studied by methods of high precision three-dimensional modeling, experiment and traceological analysis. In order to obtain detailed information on the morphological characteristics of the artificial relief, a high-precision three-dimensional sca…
Middle Paleolithic Bone Retouchers
Костяные ретушеры являются самыми распространенными орудиями для обработки каменного сырья в среднепалеолитических комплексах Евразии. Обычно они воспринимаются палеолитоведами как неформальные немодифицированные орудия на фрагментах костей, случайно полученных в процессе расщепления костей с целью извлечения костного мозга. В статье приводятся новые данные по многочисленной коллекции костяных ретушеров из комплекса Чагырской пещеры (Горный Алтай…
The Sartan Upper Paleolithic Assemblages of the Northwestern Altai
Сартанские комплексы верхнего палеолита Северо-Западного Алтая DOI: 10.17746/1563-0102.2020.48.1.029-040 С.В. Маркин, К.А. Колобова Институт археологии и этнографии СО РАН пр. Академика Лаврентьева, 17, Новосибирск, 630090, Россия В статье освещаются результаты комплексных исследований сартанских верхнепалеолитических материалов из пещерных и открытых стоянок (МИС 2) на северо-западе Алтая, в отложениях которых имеются суглинистые осадки, зачасту…
The Sartan Upper Paleolithic Assemblages of the Northwestern Altai
This article highlights the results of comprehensive studies at Sartan cave and open-air sites (MIS 2) in the northwestern Altai. Their stratigraphic profiles include loam layers, often with geest. Absolute dates are discussed, as well as the relative stratigraphic position of lithological layers within profiles of stratified Pleistocene sites, using available paleoenvironmental data. The Sartan sites of the region are base-camps with a complete …
The Sibiryachikha Facies of the Middle Paleolithic of the Altai
The Middle Paleolithic industry of the Sibiryachikha facies is described on the basis of two stratified sites in the Altai – Okladnikov Cave (formerly Sibiryachikha) and Chagyrskaya Cave. Stratigrtraphic, environmental, and chronological aspects are discussed. The structure of two cave sites is analyzed. Petrographic properties of raw material are described and the typology and technology of the lithic industry are compared with those of other lo…
Lithic Raw Material Exploitation in the Sibiryachikha Facies, the Middle Paleolithic of Altai
The assemblages of the Sibiryachikha facies of the Middle Paleolithic stand out in terms of their production technology and typology among the other contemporary lithic assemblages of Gorny Altai. In this study, the role of raw materials in the development of characteristic features of the Okladnikov and Chagyrskaya caves' industries is determined. The proximity of sources of the raw material used has been established, and the main principles of …
Dietary evidence from Central Asian Neanderthals
Neanderthals are known primarily from their habitation of Western Eurasia, but they also populated large expanses of Northern Asia for thousands of years. Owing to a sparse archaeological record, relatively little is known about these eastern Neanderthal populations. Unlike in their western range, there are limited zooarchaeological and paleobotanical studies that inform us about the nature of their subsistence. Here, we perform a combined analys…
Chagyrskaya Cave
This article presents the results of multidisciplinary studies conducted at Chagyrskaya – an Upper Pleistocene karst cave in the northwestern Altai where Middle Paleolithic stone tools and fossil remains of Neanderthals were found. Taphonomic aspects of the site are addressed, and results of science-based analyses including radiocarbon and paleomagnetic dating are presented. The deposits are similar to loess-like Upper Pleistocene loams of Wester…
The Early Upper Paleolithic of the Gobi Altai Region in Mongolia (Based on Materials From the Chikhen-2 Site)
Here, we present technological, typological and morphological analyses of the Pleistocene lithic assemblages excavated from Horizons 3–2.5 of the multicomponent Chikhen-2 site located on the southern piedmont of the Gobi Altai Range, southern Mongolia. Descriptions of geomorphology, stratigraphy, and archaeological finds are given, along with an analysis of reduction and secondary trimming techniques and retouch typology. Single-platform mono-fro…
How Neanderthals gripped retouchers
Large mammal fauna of the Sartan period from the northwestern Altai (Based on materials from Kaminnaya Cave)
Variability in the Sibiryachikha Assemblages of the Altai Mountains (Based on Materials from Okladnikov Cave Layer 2)
This article, based on new data from comprehensive studies of assemblage from Okladnikov Cave layer 2, explores the variability of Middle Paleolithic Sibiryachikha variant of the Altai Mountains. Using methods such as scar pattern analysis, experimental use-wear analysis, attributive analysis, etc., we specify the characteristics of the assemblage by extending the nomenclature of technical fl akes relating to radial fl aking, evaluating the share…
Middle Paleolithic Bone Retouchers
peer reviewed
Maxillary second molar from the Rozhok I Micoquian site (Azov Sea region)
A Case of Chronic Maxillary Sinusitis in a Late Neanderthal Population of the Altai Mountains
We describe a likely case of chronic maxillary sinusitis (CMS) in a Neanderthal skeletal sample from Chagyrskaya Cave, in the Altai Mountains. Signs of CMS were recorded in the Chagyrskaya 57 specimen, which is a fragment of a left maxilla. Alveoli of the upper fi rst molar are partially preserved, and so are the second and third upper molars, with adjacent parts of the walls, and the fl oor of the maxillary sinus. The fragment was found in layer…
Complex Study of a Personal Ornament Made on a Marmot Incisor from the Early Holocene Complex of Kaminnaya Cave (Russian Altai)
The article presents the oldest evidence of non- utilitarian use of marmot incisors in North Asia. The ornamented marmot incisor comes from the Early Holocene layer of the Kaminnaya Cave. The artifact was studied by methods of high precision three-dimensional modeling, experiment and traceological analysis. In order to obtain detailed information on the morphological characteristics of the artificial relief, a high-precision three-dimensional sca…
The Sartan Upper Paleolithic Assemblages of the Northwestern Altai
This article highlights the results of comprehensive studies at Sartan cave and open-air sites (MIS 2) in the northwestern Altai. Their stratigraphic profiles include loam layers, often with geest. Absolute dates are discussed, as well as the relative stratigraphic position of lithological layers within profiles of stratified Pleistocene sites, using available paleoenvironmental data. The Sartan sites of the region are base-camps with a complete …
Robusticity of Hand Phalanges
Cross-sectional geometry of middle phalanges of hand digits 2–4 in fi ve European and Asian Neanderthals (La Ferrassie 1, Kiik-Koba 1, Okladnikov 2 and 5, and Chagyrskaya 16-3-12) and fi ve Cro-Magnons (Kostenki 14, Telmanovskaya TII 175 and TII 173, Sungir 1, and Abri Pataud 26227) was estimated by means of microtomography. Both Neanderthals and Cro-Magnons reveal a wide range of individual variability in the inner robusticity indices. Both the …
A New Approach to the Study of Flaking Sequence Integrity Based on the Chagyrskaya Cave Assemblage, Northwestern Altai
This paper presents a new approach to assessing the integrity of flaking sequences at Paleolithic sites. It combines experimental modeling with subsequent attribute analysis of the archaeological collection. The method is based on changes in the proportion of various technical spalls at different stages of core and bifacial reduction, as well as changes in the sizes of cortical flakes. This methodology was applied to reconstruct the strategy of t…
Percussive-Abrasive Stone Tools from Chagyrskaya Cave
This article presents a comprehensive study of percussive-abrasive active stone tools from Chagyrskaya Cave, using experimental use-wear and statistical methods, supplemented by 3D-modeling. Experiments combined with use- wear analysis allowed us to determine the functions of these tools by comparing the working surfaces and use-wear traces in the Chagyrskaya samples with those in the reference samples. As a result, we identified 19 retouchers, f…
Large mammal fauna of the Sartan period from the northwestern Altai (Based on materials from Kaminnaya Cave)
The Sibiryachikha Facies of the Middle Paleolithic of the Altai
The Middle Paleolithic industry of the Sibiryachikha facies is described on the basis of two stratified sites in the Altai – Okladnikov Cave (formerly Sibiryachikha) and Chagyrskaya Cave. Stratigrtraphic, environmental, and chronological aspects are discussed. The structure of two cave sites is analyzed. Petrographic properties of raw material are described and the typology and technology of the lithic industry are compared with those of other lo…
Chagyrskaya Cave
This article presents the results of multidisciplinary studies conducted at Chagyrskaya – an Upper Pleistocene karst cave in the northwestern Altai where Middle Paleolithic stone tools and fossil remains of Neanderthals were found. Taphonomic aspects of the site are addressed, and results of science-based analyses including radiocarbon and paleomagnetic dating are presented. The deposits are similar to loess-like Upper Pleistocene loams of Wester…
Lithic Raw Material Exploitation in the Sibiryachikha Facies, the Middle Paleolithic of Altai
The assemblages of the Sibiryachikha facies of the Middle Paleolithic stand out in terms of their production technology and typology among the other contemporary lithic assemblages of Gorny Altai. In this study, the role of raw materials in the development of characteristic features of the Okladnikov and Chagyrskaya caves' industries is determined. The proximity of sources of the raw material used has been established, and the main principles of …
The Early Upper Paleolithic of the Gobi Altai Region in Mongolia (Based on Materials From the Chikhen-2 Site)
Here, we present technological, typological and morphological analyses of the Pleistocene lithic assemblages excavated from Horizons 3–2.5 of the multicomponent Chikhen-2 site located on the southern piedmont of the Gobi Altai Range, southern Mongolia. Descriptions of geomorphology, stratigraphy, and archaeological finds are given, along with an analysis of reduction and secondary trimming techniques and retouch typology. Single-platform mono-fro…
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Robusticity of Hand Phalanges
Cross-sectional geometry of middle phalanges of hand digits 2–4 in fi ve European and Asian Neanderthals (La Ferrassie 1, Kiik-Koba 1, Okladnikov 2 and 5, and Chagyrskaya 16-3-12) and fi ve Cro-Magnons (Kostenki 14, Telmanovskaya TII 175 and TII 173, Sungir 1, and Abri Pataud 26227) was estimated by means of microtomography. Both Neanderthals and Cro-Magnons reveal a wide range of individual variability in the inner robusticity indices. Both the …
Multidisciplinary Studies of Chagyrskaya Cave – A Middle Paleolithic Site in Altai
The monograph discusses key results obtained in a multidisciplinary study of assemblages recovered from Chagyrskaya Cave, a unique Middle Paleolithic site of North Asia. This publication presents archaeological, anthropological, palynological, palaeontological, geological and paleogeographical data, as well as absolute age determinations. Investigations undertaken during 2007–2015 enable reconstruction of the Neanderthal subsistence strategies in…
The Middle Paleolithic Complexes of the Chagyrskaya Cave
Chagyrskaya cave is a key-site of the Middle Paleolithic Sibiryachikha Facies in Gorny Altai. During the field season of 2018, field work was focused upon the central chamber; the total excavation square was two square meters. The cultural layers of Chagyrskaya cave have yielded new numerous assemblages of stone artefacts, paleontological and paleoanthropological materials. The study area is characterized by a high degree of carnivore activity. D…
Preliminary Results of the Use-wear Analysis of Convergent Scrapers and Retouched Points from Chagyrskaya Cave Assemblages
Identification of Bifacial Components in Middle Paleolithic Techno-Complexes (Based on the Chagyrskaya Cave Assemblages)
Previously, occasional bifacial tools found in different industrial variants of the Altai Middle Paleolithic were not considered as cultural markers that could be used to differentiate the technological/cultural variants. They rather were a bright but situational manifestation of the typological variability, especially in the case of the Sibiryachikha assemblages. Purpose. The article discusses various research approaches used to determine and ev…
Paleolithic Assemblages of the Sartan Glacial Period in the Northwestern Altai
Middle Paleolithic Bone Retouchers
Костяные ретушеры являются самыми распространенными орудиями для обработки каменного сырья в среднепалеолитических комплексах Евразии. Обычно они воспринимаются палеолитоведами как неформальные немодифицированные орудия на фрагментах костей, случайно полученных в процессе расщепления костей с целью извлечения костного мозга. В статье приводятся новые данные по многочисленной коллекции костяных ретушеров из комплекса Чагырской пещеры (Горный Алтай…
The Sartan Upper Paleolithic Assemblages of the Northwestern Altai
Сартанские комплексы верхнего палеолита Северо-Западного Алтая DOI: 10.17746/1563-0102.2020.48.1.029-040 С.В. Маркин, К.А. Колобова Институт археологии и этнографии СО РАН пр. Академика Лаврентьева, 17, Новосибирск, 630090, Россия В статье освещаются результаты комплексных исследований сартанских верхнепалеолитических материалов из пещерных и открытых стоянок (МИС 2) на северо-западе Алтая, в отложениях которых имеются суглинистые осадки, зачасту…
The Sartan Upper Paleolithic Assemblages of the Northwestern Altai
This article highlights the results of comprehensive studies at Sartan cave and open-air sites (MIS 2) in the northwestern Altai. Their stratigraphic profiles include loam layers, often with geest. Absolute dates are discussed, as well as the relative stratigraphic position of lithological layers within profiles of stratified Pleistocene sites, using available paleoenvironmental data. The Sartan sites of the region are base-camps with a complete …
Middle Paleolithic Bone Retouchers
peer reviewed
Percussive-Abrasive Stone Tools from Chagyrskaya Cave
В статье представлены результаты комплексного исследования каменных ударно-абразивных орудий активного действия из Чагырской пещеры с использованием экспериментально-трасологического и статистического методов, дополненных 3D-моделированием. Проведенные эксперименты в сочетании с трасологическим анализом позволили определить функции этих орудий путем сопоставления рабочих зон и следов утилизации на инструментах в полученной эталонной и археологиче…
Natural Scientifi c and Archaeological Evidence from the Pleistocene Layers of Kaminnaya Cave
This article discusses the results of a comprehensive study of Pleistocene sediments from Kaminnaya Cave located in mid-elevation erosional middle mountains of the Northwestern Altai, where a variety of material evidence on ancient human environment and culture has been found. The stratigraphic sequences of the site are constituted by loamy deposits often enriched by products of bedrock disintegration. Geomorphology, stratigraphy, biostratigraphy…
Percussive-Abrasive Stone Tools from Chagyrskaya Cave
This article presents a comprehensive study of percussive-abrasive active stone tools from Chagyrskaya Cave, using experimental use-wear and statistical methods, supplemented by 3D-modeling. Experiments combined with use- wear analysis allowed us to determine the functions of these tools by comparing the working surfaces and use-wear traces in the Chagyrskaya samples with those in the reference samples. As a result, we identified 19 retouchers, f…
Dietary evidence from Central Asian Neanderthals
Neanderthals are known primarily from their habitation of Western Eurasia, but they also populated large expanses of Northern Asia for thousands of years. Owing to a sparse archaeological record, relatively little is known about these eastern Neanderthal populations. Unlike in their western range, there are limited zooarchaeological and paleobotanical studies that inform us about the nature of their subsistence. Here, we perform a combined analys…
Complex Study of a Personal Ornament Made on a Marmot Incisor from the Early Holocene Complex of Kaminnaya Cave (Russian Altai)
The article presents the oldest evidence of non- utilitarian use of marmot incisors in North Asia. The ornamented marmot incisor comes from the Early Holocene layer of the Kaminnaya Cave. The artifact was studied by methods of high precision three-dimensional modeling, experiment and traceological analysis. In order to obtain detailed information on the morphological characteristics of the artificial relief, a high-precision three-dimensional sca…
Maxillary second molar from the Rozhok I Micoquian site (Azov Sea region)
A Case of Chronic Maxillary Sinusitis in a Late Neanderthal Population of the Altai Mountains
We describe a likely case of chronic maxillary sinusitis (CMS) in a Neanderthal skeletal sample from Chagyrskaya Cave, in the Altai Mountains. Signs of CMS were recorded in the Chagyrskaya 57 specimen, which is a fragment of a left maxilla. Alveoli of the upper fi rst molar are partially preserved, and so are the second and third upper molars, with adjacent parts of the walls, and the fl oor of the maxillary sinus. The fragment was found in layer…
How Neanderthals gripped retouchers
Variability in the Sibiryachikha Assemblages of the Altai Mountains (Based on Materials from Okladnikov Cave Layer 2)
В статье на основе новых данных, полученных в результате комплексного изучения материалов из слоя 2 пещеры Окладникова, рассматривается вариабельность среднепалеолитических сибирячихинских комплексов Горного Алтая. С привлечением новых методов исследования (анализ последовательности сколов, экспериментально-трасологический, атрибутивный анализы и др.) уточнены характеристики комплекса: расширена номенклатура технических сколов, связанных с радиал…
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