K K Pavlenok
Biographic Data
| ID | 631928 |
|---|---|
| NAME | K K Pavlenok |
| GIVEN NAMES | K K |
| FAMILY NAME | Pavlenok |
| SIGNATURE | PAVLENOK K K |
| AFFILIATIONS | Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0205-2077 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 41 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 144 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 41 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
Filling the Gap
This paper presents the results of a techno-typological and statistical analysis of assemblages from key Middle Palaeolithic layers (12.1, 12.3, 17) at the Kulbulak site. The study aims to determine their position within the Obi-Rakhmatian and to elucidate the nature of its long-term developmental trajectory. Based on the study of 8,790 artifacts and the application of non-metric multidimensional scaling (NMDS), a detailed comparison was conducte…
Northwestern Section of the Afontova Gora V Site in Krasnoyarsk
The Afontova Gora V is a key site of the Upper Paleolithic in the Yenisei Siberian region with a complex research history. Cultural horizon of the Late Kargino period, containing expressive archaeological and faunal remains, has been identified for the first time in the Krasnoyarsk area. According to the current interpretation of the archaeological site, it unites diachronous, scattered settlements which contain three cultural horizons belonging …
The Orkutsay Cross-section in Eastern Uzbekistan
The geoarchaeological studies at the excavation trench of Orkutsay were resumed in 2023 and aimed at a full-fledged integratation of the Western Tian Shan region into the discourse of the “Loess Paleolithic” research. In 2025, the joint RussianUzbekistan archaeological expedition searched for archaeological materials within new lithic-stratigraphic context. Excavation 2 was established for this purpose; it provided new information for archaeologi…
On the Problem of Identifying Archaeological Sites in the Middle Tom River Region
This article presents the results of historical, archival, and field archaeological research in the Middle Tom River region (Kemerovo Region) in 2025. The work justifies the principles of predictive modeling for locating archaeological heritage sites, and presents information about the new sites. Research methods involved analyzing archival evidence, surveying the area by means of aerial photography from a drone, and making test pits for determin…
Preservation of Middle Paleolithic Open-Air Sites in Low-Mountain Landscapes
Purpose . The multi-layered Paleolithic site of Kuksaray-2 was discovered in 2021 on the right side of the Akhangaran River valley (Eastern Uzbekistan). During fieldwork of 2023 it was established that the lithic industry from layers 0–2 is associated with the MIS-3, and the most ancient complex from layer 4 may belong to the MIS-5. In 2024, exploration of the Kuksaray-2 site was continued by trench 3/2024, 5/2024, 6/2024, 7/2024 and 8/2024 to cl…
Small Blade and Bladelet Production in Central Asia at the Turn of MIS 7 and 6
В статье рассматриваются нуклеусы для получения мелких пластин и пластинок методами параллельного, торцового и резцового расщепления из слоя 23 стоянки Кульбулак в Западном Тянь-Шане (раскопки 2016-2017 гг.). Среди ядрищ (27 экз.) типологическим методом выделены плоскостные (продольные и поперечные), объемные (кареноидное, подконусовидные и подцилиндрическое), торцовые (в т.ч. нуклеусы-резцы). Анализ последовательности сколов (scar-pattern analys…
The Lithic Industry of the Kuksaray-2 Site (Eastern Uzbekistan)
The research of the Kuksaray-2 site with a minimally disturbed cultural-stratigraphic sequence was continued in 2024. According to the paleogeographic reconstruction, layer 0 represents deposits formed during MIS 3, subsequently reworked by soil formation processes in the Holocene. Layer 1 was also formed during MIS 3, but less affected by subsequent soil formation processes. Layer 2 was formed during MIS 4. The deposits of layers 3 and 4 were fo…
Ulakhan-Botuobuya II Early Holocene – Bronze Age Site in the Mirny District of the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia)
In June – September 2024, the Vilyui archaeological expedition of the IAET SB RAS carried out rescue archaeological excavations at the Ulakhan-Botuobuya II site located in the south of the Mirny District of the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia). During the 2024 field season, an excavation area of 5 897 sq. m was studied at the Ulakhan-Botuobuya II site, and 8 534 items were recorded. The archaeological material is mostly recorded in a redeposited state…
Resuming Archaeological Research at the Orkutsay Section (Eastern Uzbekistan)
The Chirchik River basin is one of key regions for studying loess-soil formations in Central Asia. One of the most complete loess sections in this area is located in the Orkutsay sai on the right bank of the stream having the same name (Bostanlyk District, Tashkent Region, the Republic of Uzbekistan). It is confined to a narrow watershed between the valleys of the Chirchik River and its last major tributary, the Ugam River. In the 1980s, A.E. Dod…
Burials of the Chelbas-8 Kurgan Group (Tikhoretsky District, Krasnodar Region) According to 2024 Excavations
The article provides an overview of salvage excavations of kurgans 2 and 3 of the Chelbas-8 kurgan group, carried out in December 2023 to February 2024. The kurgans are located in the right-bank part of the Chelbas River valley southwest of the town of Tikhoretsk. Burials of the Eneolithic – Early Bronze Age, Middle Bronze Age, Early Iron Age, Late Middle Ages – New Age were found in the earth mounds and under them. Conclusions on the history of …
Cultural Mosaic of the Middle Paleolithic in Western Tien Shan
Purpose. The term “archaeological frontier” was first applied to the Western Tien Shan about 10 years ago to explain the phenomenon of the early appearance of microblade knapping in the Middle Paleolithic industries. Based on the results of a comparative analysis of the collections of Obi-Rakhmat and Kulbulak and materials from other synchronous monuments in the region, it was suggested that the Western Pamir-Tien Shan could be a zone of competit…
New Data for Asymmetric Core Reduction in Western Tian Shan Piedmonts
This study describes a multi-proxy approach toward a newly discovered open-air loess site, Ertash Sai 2, located in the western piedmonts of the Tian Shan in Uzbekistan. Technological analyzes enabled the identification of an asymmetric core reduction scheme accompanied by a Levallois-like predetermined knapping scheme, along with the production of truncated-faceted pieces and burin-cores. Moreover, the results show a direct relationship between …
Small Blade and Bladelet Production in Central Asia at the Turn of MIS 7 and 6
We describe 27 parallel, narrow-faced, and burin-cores for small blades and bladelets from Kulbulak layer 23, Western Tien Shan, excavated in 2016 and 2017. In terms of typology, flat-faced (longitudinal and transverse), prismatic (carinated, subconical, and subcylindrical), and narrow-faced cores (including burin[1]cores) were identified. Scar pattern analysis suggests that regardless of the typological affiliation of cores, a uniform technologi…
The Emergence of Levallois Blade Industry in the Western Foothills of Tien Shan
В статье рассматриваются материалы слоя 24 стоянки Кульбулак (Западный Тянь-Шань), полученные в ходе полевых работ 2018-2019 гг. На основе данных о возрасте слоя 16 (соответствует МИС 5е) и геологическом строении отложений проведено стратиграфическое расчленение разреза Кульбулака с выделением основных палеогеографических этапов его формирования. Слои 25-22, вероятно, соотносятся с периодом потепления второй половины МИС 7. Установлено, что перви…
A closer look at clasts and groundmass
New Data on the Lower Paleolithic of Tajikistan
Purpose . The paper presents a description of the stratigraphic and planigraphic situation at the excavation 3 of the Lakhuti IV site (Khovaling loess plateau, Tajikistan) recorded during field work in 2022. Results . The cross-section has 18 layers grouped into three strata: L6 glacial period sediments (MIS 14), 6a and 6b soil complexes (MIS 15). The identified technocomplexes belong to the late Karatau culture of the Lower Paleolithic of Tajiki…
The Emergence of Levallois Blade Industry in the Western Foothills of Tien Shan
We describe fi nds from layer 24 of Kulbulak, Western Tien Shan, excavated in 2018–2019. On the basis of the age of layer 16 (MIS 5e) and the geological context of the deposits, the profi le of the site was subdivided into paleogeographic stages. Layers 25–22 likely correlate with the warming period in the second half of MIS 7. Primary reduction in layer 24 industry was based on parallel uni- and bidirectional techniques, with wide and narrow-fac…
Technological Lithic Production Variability of the Teshik-Tash Grotto Industry
Purpose. For the Central Asian territories, only the discovery of a burial from Teshik-Tash has an indisputable connection with the Neanderthal population confirmed by genetic studies. In this situation, it is important to fully characterize the technological repertoire of this hominin species through a detailed study of the lithic industry of TeshikTash. One of the parts of the Teshik-Tash collection, kept in the collections of the Kunstkamera (…
Technological Repertoire of the Teshik-Tash Neanderthals
The article presents the results of the technological analysis of the Teshik-Tash grotto lithic collection from the Kunstkamera funds (Saint Petersburg). Because the Teshik-Tash industry has an indisputable anthropological link to the Neanderthal population, which is unique for the western part of Central Asia, it is important to fully characterize the technological repertoire of this hominin species by studying the Teshik-Tash collection. Using …
New evidence for mountain Palaeolithic human occupation in the western Tian Shan piedmonts, eastern Uzbekistan
This article presents preliminary results from mountain survey in the Chatkal Range in the western Tian Shan piedmonts, eastern Uzbekistan. In 2021, several new Palaeolithic sites were discovered, including a single, multi-layered, open-air site-Kuksaray 2-located near a flint outcrop. The authors' initial investigations have recovered a stone tool assemblage containing tools displaying both Middle Palaeolithic and Initial Upper Palaeolithic char…
Is there Initial Upper Palaeolithic in Western Tian Shan? Example of an open-air site Katta Sai 2 (Uzbekistan)
The paper presents the results of multidisciplinary studies on the open-air loess site Katta Sai 2 located in the western piedmonts of Tian Shan in Uzbekistan. Two archaeological horizons contain features associated with the Initial Upper Palaeolithic (IUP) - both Levallois and blade/bladelet volumetric technology, together with an Upper Palaeolithic toolkit. The cultural traits observed in Katta Sai 2 might have local roots dating back to MIS 5a…
New Stratifi ed Paleolithic Sites in Akhangaran Valley (Uzbekistan)
The paper deals with survey data recorded in 2021 in Uzbekistan by joint team of the Institute of Archeology and Ethnography SB RAS, Warsaw University, and National Center of Archaeology Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Uzbekistan. Based on 2018-2019 data, we carried out local excavations, and the Paleolithic artifacts were recorded in the cross-sections of two sites—Ertashsai-12 and Kuksarai-2 located on the right side of the Akhangaran va…
Raw Material Selection Strategies in the Kulbulak Middle Paleolithic Complexes
The paper addresses analyses of the raw material of the Middle Paleolithic lithic complexes of the Kulbulak site (layers 12.1, 12.3, 14, 16, and 17.1). The lithic industries described in the paper are characterized by the nearest provenance of raw materials (within 1.5 km) including flint outcrops and alluvial effusive pebbles. Flint predominated; it was used for both Levallois and bladelet production, the bladelet share increases up the profile.…
Middle Paleolithic technological diversity during MIS 3 in the Western Tian Shan piedmonts
This paper aims to reconstruct the general knapping scheme in the Katta Sai 1 assemblage dated to around 40 kya. The site was excavated within a large -scale fieldwork project of interdisciplinary studies on Middle Paleolithic settlements in the western Tian Shan piedmont. The technological analyses allow the identification of a new variant of human adaptation in the regional Middle Paleolithic. The locally -collected river pebbles were knapped u…
A Methodological Seminar “Preservation of the Objects of Archaeological Heritage of Russian Asia
Purpose. In modern society, issues of preserving cultural heritage are of constant relevance. This is due to the ongoing struggle for the realization of the interests of a large number of agents. The participants in this process are executive authorities, academic institutions, commercial organizations and economic entities. The interests of each agent are in their own plane whose extreme points intersect with the planes of other agents. Conseque…
The Kulbulak Bladelet Tradition in The Upper Paleolithic of Central Asia
peer reviewed
Ushbulak-1
In world archaeology, there has always been a problem regarding the Middle to Upper Palaeolithic transition. Late twentieth-century research has attempted to address this issue through the recognition of Initial Upper Palaeolithic (IUP) lithic industries. These assemblages were first characterised through evidence from the sites of Boker Tachtit and Ksar Akil (the Levant), and they are now identified in many regions of Eurasia, including Central …
Middle Paleolithic sites of Katta Sai in western Tian Shan piedmont, Central Asiatic loess zone
Carinated Pieces in Paleolithic Assemblages of Central Asia1
Before the 1970s, Eurasian Aurignacian artifacts of the carinated type were interpreted as tools, specifically endscrapers or burins. At present, they are more and more often regarded as cores for bladelets with a curved profile. In the southeast, their distribution area was previously believed to extend to the southern part of the Afghan-Tajik depression. Recent studies in western Central Asia, however, suggest that the boundary passes across no…
Is there Initial Upper Palaeolithic in Western Tian Shan? Example of an open-air site Katta Sai 2 (Uzbekistan)
The paper presents the results of multidisciplinary studies on the open-air loess site Katta Sai 2 located in the western piedmonts of Tian Shan in Uzbekistan. Two archaeological horizons contain features associated with the Initial Upper Palaeolithic (IUP) - both Levallois and blade/bladelet volumetric technology, together with an Upper Palaeolithic toolkit. The cultural traits observed in Katta Sai 2 might have local roots dating back to MIS 5a…
Reassessment of the Lower Paleolithic (Acheulean) presence in the western Tien Shan
Revisiting the Palaeolithic site of Kulbulak (Uzbekistan)
The Denticulate Mousterian as a supposedly distinct facies in Western Central Asia
peer reviewed
A Neanderthal Refugium in the Eastern Adriatic
On the basis of mineralogical analysis of the tephra layer in the Bioce rock shelter in Montenegro, we revise the cultural and population changes in the eastern Adriatic at the Middle to Upper Paleolithic transition. The disappearance of Neanderthals from that region was traditionally attributed to the Campanian Ignimbrite eruption ~40 ka BP. Comprehensive studies at Bioce by the Russian-Montenegrin expedition in 2010-2015 have resulted in a hypo…
New evidence for mountain Palaeolithic human occupation in the western Tian Shan piedmonts, eastern Uzbekistan
This article presents preliminary results from mountain survey in the Chatkal Range in the western Tian Shan piedmonts, eastern Uzbekistan. In 2021, several new Palaeolithic sites were discovered, including a single, multi-layered, open-air site-Kuksaray 2-located near a flint outcrop. The authors' initial investigations have recovered a stone tool assemblage containing tools displaying both Middle Palaeolithic and Initial Upper Palaeolithic char…
Raw material procurement as a crucial factor determining knapping technology in the Katta Sai complex of Middle Palaeolithic sites in the western Tian Shan piedmonts of Uzbekistan
New Findings on the Middle Paleolithic of the Eastern Adriatic
Excavations of undisturbed Pleistocene deposits at the Bioče rockshelter layers 4 and 3 by the joint Russian-Montenegrian expedition yielded the fi rst evidence of Middle Paleolithic occupation. Primary reduction techniques are described and a typology of lithic industry is proposed. Techniques were quite simple, including parallel, orthogonal, and centripetal fl aking suggestive of the Levallois tradition. Flakes were mostly small, short, and ro…
New Data for Asymmetric Core Reduction in Western Tian Shan Piedmonts
This study describes a multi-proxy approach toward a newly discovered open-air loess site, Ertash Sai 2, located in the western piedmonts of the Tian Shan in Uzbekistan. Technological analyzes enabled the identification of an asymmetric core reduction scheme accompanied by a Levallois-like predetermined knapping scheme, along with the production of truncated-faceted pieces and burin-cores. Moreover, the results show a direct relationship between …
The Emergence of Levallois Blade Industry in the Western Foothills of Tien Shan
We describe fi nds from layer 24 of Kulbulak, Western Tien Shan, excavated in 2018–2019. On the basis of the age of layer 16 (MIS 5e) and the geological context of the deposits, the profi le of the site was subdivided into paleogeographic stages. Layers 25–22 likely correlate with the warming period in the second half of MIS 7. Primary reduction in layer 24 industry was based on parallel uni- and bidirectional techniques, with wide and narrow-fac…
Middle Paleolithic technological diversity during MIS 3 in the Western Tian Shan piedmonts
This paper aims to reconstruct the general knapping scheme in the Katta Sai 1 assemblage dated to around 40 kya. The site was excavated within a large -scale fieldwork project of interdisciplinary studies on Middle Paleolithic settlements in the western Tian Shan piedmont. The technological analyses allow the identification of a new variant of human adaptation in the regional Middle Paleolithic. The locally -collected river pebbles were knapped u…
Regional Sources of the Obirakhmatian
Иркутский государственный университет, Россия 4 Институт археологических исследований АН РУз, УзбекистанАннотация.Приводятся новые данные по среднему палеолиту стоянки Кульбулак (слои 14-17).Технико-типологический анализ археологических материалов дал основания полагать, что на Кульбулаке в погребенном состоянии зафиксированы древнейшие на западе Центральной Азии проявления пластинчатого варианта среднего палеолита, который в технологическом отно…
Technological Repertoire of the Teshik-Tash Neanderthals
The article presents the results of the technological analysis of the Teshik-Tash grotto lithic collection from the Kunstkamera funds (Saint Petersburg). Because the Teshik-Tash industry has an indisputable anthropological link to the Neanderthal population, which is unique for the western part of Central Asia, it is important to fully characterize the technological repertoire of this hominin species by studying the Teshik-Tash collection. Using …
A closer look at clasts and groundmass
Technological Lithic Production Variability of the Teshik-Tash Grotto Industry
Purpose. For the Central Asian territories, only the discovery of a burial from Teshik-Tash has an indisputable connection with the Neanderthal population confirmed by genetic studies. In this situation, it is important to fully characterize the technological repertoire of this hominin species through a detailed study of the lithic industry of TeshikTash. One of the parts of the Teshik-Tash collection, kept in the collections of the Kunstkamera (…
The Denticulate Mousterian as a supposedly distinct facies in Western Central Asia
peer reviewed
Revisiting the Palaeolithic site of Kulbulak (Uzbekistan)
The Kulbulak Bladelet Tradition in The Upper Paleolithic of Central Asia
peer reviewed
Carinated Pieces in Paleolithic Assemblages of Central Asia1
Before the 1970s, Eurasian Aurignacian artifacts of the carinated type were interpreted as tools, specifically endscrapers or burins. At present, they are more and more often regarded as cores for bladelets with a curved profile. In the southeast, their distribution area was previously believed to extend to the southern part of the Afghan-Tajik depression. Recent studies in western Central Asia, however, suggest that the boundary passes across no…
Middle Paleolithic sites of Katta Sai in western Tian Shan piedmont, Central Asiatic loess zone
The Improvement of Splitting Technique in Upper Paleolithic of Kulbulak Culture
The current period of western Central Asian Stone Age research is characterized by the expansion of research methods in the analysis of Upper Paleolithic complexes. However, a technologically important for Paleolithic industries parameter such as splitting technique has not been investigated. The aim of this article is to determine the splitting technique in the production of blades and bladelets in the Upper Paleolithic Kulbula-kian complexes of…
New Findings on the Middle Paleolithic of the Eastern Adriatic
Excavations of undisturbed Pleistocene deposits at the Bioče rockshelter layers 4 and 3 by the joint Russian-Montenegrian expedition yielded the fi rst evidence of Middle Paleolithic occupation. Primary reduction techniques are described and a typology of lithic industry is proposed. Techniques were quite simple, including parallel, orthogonal, and centripetal fl aking suggestive of the Levallois tradition. Flakes were mostly small, short, and ro…
Ushbulak-1
In world archaeology, there has always been a problem regarding the Middle to Upper Palaeolithic transition. Late twentieth-century research has attempted to address this issue through the recognition of Initial Upper Palaeolithic (IUP) lithic industries. These assemblages were first characterised through evidence from the sites of Boker Tachtit and Ksar Akil (the Levant), and they are now identified in many regions of Eurasia, including Central …
First Results of Petromagnetic Study at the Kulbulak Site
Regional Sources of the Obirakhmatian
Иркутский государственный университет, Россия 4 Институт археологических исследований АН РУз, УзбекистанАннотация.Приводятся новые данные по среднему палеолиту стоянки Кульбулак (слои 14-17).Технико-типологический анализ археологических материалов дал основания полагать, что на Кульбулаке в погребенном состоянии зафиксированы древнейшие на западе Центральной Азии проявления пластинчатого варианта среднего палеолита, который в технологическом отно…
Reassessment of the Lower Paleolithic (Acheulean) presence in the western Tien Shan
Searching of the Paleolithic Sites in the Akhangaran River Valley
The article deals with the history of the study of the Paleolithic sites in the Akhangaran river valley (Eastern Uzbekistan) as well as the data obtained from the current research cycle. There are three zones of concentration of archaeological objects in the Akhangaran valley, on the basis of the materials of which it is possible to get an idea of the peculiarities of the Paleolithic development in the foothills and lowlands of the Tien Shan. The…
First Results of Research into the Lithic Industry from Layer 24 at the Kulbulak Site (Excavations of 2019)
A Methodological Seminar “Preservation of the Objects of Archaeological Heritage of Russian Asia
Purpose. In modern society, issues of preserving cultural heritage are of constant relevance. This is due to the ongoing struggle for the realization of the interests of a large number of agents. The participants in this process are executive authorities, academic institutions, commercial organizations and economic entities. The interests of each agent are in their own plane whose extreme points intersect with the planes of other agents. Conseque…
Raw material procurement as a crucial factor determining knapping technology in the Katta Sai complex of Middle Palaeolithic sites in the western Tian Shan piedmonts of Uzbekistan
A Neanderthal Refugium in the Eastern Adriatic
On the basis of mineralogical analysis of the tephra layer in the Bioce rock shelter in Montenegro, we revise the cultural and population changes in the eastern Adriatic at the Middle to Upper Paleolithic transition. The disappearance of Neanderthals from that region was traditionally attributed to the Campanian Ignimbrite eruption ~40 ka BP. Comprehensive studies at Bioce by the Russian-Montenegrin expedition in 2010-2015 have resulted in a hypo…
Regularities in the spatial location of archaeological objects in Tomsk Region
New Stratifi ed Paleolithic Sites in Akhangaran Valley (Uzbekistan)
The paper deals with survey data recorded in 2021 in Uzbekistan by joint team of the Institute of Archeology and Ethnography SB RAS, Warsaw University, and National Center of Archaeology Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Uzbekistan. Based on 2018-2019 data, we carried out local excavations, and the Paleolithic artifacts were recorded in the cross-sections of two sites—Ertashsai-12 and Kuksarai-2 located on the right side of the Akhangaran va…
Raw Material Selection Strategies in the Kulbulak Middle Paleolithic Complexes
The paper addresses analyses of the raw material of the Middle Paleolithic lithic complexes of the Kulbulak site (layers 12.1, 12.3, 14, 16, and 17.1). The lithic industries described in the paper are characterized by the nearest provenance of raw materials (within 1.5 km) including flint outcrops and alluvial effusive pebbles. Flint predominated; it was used for both Levallois and bladelet production, the bladelet share increases up the profile.…
Middle Paleolithic technological diversity during MIS 3 in the Western Tian Shan piedmonts
This paper aims to reconstruct the general knapping scheme in the Katta Sai 1 assemblage dated to around 40 kya. The site was excavated within a large -scale fieldwork project of interdisciplinary studies on Middle Paleolithic settlements in the western Tian Shan piedmont. The technological analyses allow the identification of a new variant of human adaptation in the regional Middle Paleolithic. The locally -collected river pebbles were knapped u…
Technological Lithic Production Variability of the Teshik-Tash Grotto Industry
Purpose. For the Central Asian territories, only the discovery of a burial from Teshik-Tash has an indisputable connection with the Neanderthal population confirmed by genetic studies. In this situation, it is important to fully characterize the technological repertoire of this hominin species through a detailed study of the lithic industry of TeshikTash. One of the parts of the Teshik-Tash collection, kept in the collections of the Kunstkamera (…
Technological Repertoire of the Teshik-Tash Neanderthals
The article presents the results of the technological analysis of the Teshik-Tash grotto lithic collection from the Kunstkamera funds (Saint Petersburg). Because the Teshik-Tash industry has an indisputable anthropological link to the Neanderthal population, which is unique for the western part of Central Asia, it is important to fully characterize the technological repertoire of this hominin species by studying the Teshik-Tash collection. Using …
New evidence for mountain Palaeolithic human occupation in the western Tian Shan piedmonts, eastern Uzbekistan
This article presents preliminary results from mountain survey in the Chatkal Range in the western Tian Shan piedmonts, eastern Uzbekistan. In 2021, several new Palaeolithic sites were discovered, including a single, multi-layered, open-air site-Kuksaray 2-located near a flint outcrop. The authors' initial investigations have recovered a stone tool assemblage containing tools displaying both Middle Palaeolithic and Initial Upper Palaeolithic char…
Is there Initial Upper Palaeolithic in Western Tian Shan? Example of an open-air site Katta Sai 2 (Uzbekistan)
The paper presents the results of multidisciplinary studies on the open-air loess site Katta Sai 2 located in the western piedmonts of Tian Shan in Uzbekistan. Two archaeological horizons contain features associated with the Initial Upper Palaeolithic (IUP) - both Levallois and blade/bladelet volumetric technology, together with an Upper Palaeolithic toolkit. The cultural traits observed in Katta Sai 2 might have local roots dating back to MIS 5a…
The Emergence of Levallois Blade Industry in the Western Foothills of Tien Shan
В статье рассматриваются материалы слоя 24 стоянки Кульбулак (Западный Тянь-Шань), полученные в ходе полевых работ 2018-2019 гг. На основе данных о возрасте слоя 16 (соответствует МИС 5е) и геологическом строении отложений проведено стратиграфическое расчленение разреза Кульбулака с выделением основных палеогеографических этапов его формирования. Слои 25-22, вероятно, соотносятся с периодом потепления второй половины МИС 7. Установлено, что перви…
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