TY - JOUR

T1 - Nouveau site Paléolithique supérieur ancien au nord de l'Asie Centrale

AU - Shunkov, Mikhail V.

AU - Anoikin, Anton A.

AU - Pavlenok, Galina D.

AU - Kharevich, Vladimir M.

AU - Shalagina, Alena V.

AU - Zotkina, Lidia V.

AU - Taimagambetov, Zhaken K.

N1 - Funding Information: Les auteurs du présent article expriment leur gratitude à tous les membres de la mission russo-kazakhe, qui ont participé en 2016–2017 aux prospections dans la vallée Shilikiyinskaya et aux travaux de terrain du site d'Ushboulak. Les auteurs remercient également la dessinatrice M. Medikova, qui a préparé les illustrations graphiques des artefacts. Les travaux de terrain et les analyses dans le domaine des sciences naturelles sont réalisés dans le cadre du project RSF (Russian Scientific Foundation) 19-18-00198 "The formation of Initial Upper Paleolithic culture in eastern Central Asia and South Siberia: polycentrism or transfer of cultural traditions along the northern route of Homo sapiens dispersal in Asia"; l'analyse des industries lithiques - projet du RFBR (Russian Foundation for Basic Research) 18-09-00031-а; et la recherche tracéologique - projet du RFBR RFBR 18-39-20003. Publisher Copyright: © 2019 Elsevier Masson SAS

PY - 2019/4/1

Y1 - 2019/4/1

N2 - In this paper we present the results of two years (2016 and 2017) excavations at new stratified Upper Paleolithic site of Ushbulak, situated in Shiliktinskaia Valley, Eastern Kazakhstan. There are eight lithological layers, which contain the archaeological material from Holocene to Initial Upper Paleolithic. The most significant number of artifacts was discovered in the layers 6 and 7. The debitage assemblages from these layers represent primary knapping oriented towards blade production by parallel uni- and bidirectional methods of volumetric core reduction. The tool assemblage includes several types, such as end-scrappers, burins on blades, truncated-faceted pieces, and points with basal trimming, bitruncated blades and burin-cores. These features together with a date 45.249–44.012 cal.BP from layer 6 allow us to attribute these two layers 6 and 7 to the Initial Upper Paleolithic and to consider Eastern Kazakhstan as a region between synchronous sites of the Initial Upper Paleolithic in Altai Mountains, Dzungaria and Mongolia.

AB - In this paper we present the results of two years (2016 and 2017) excavations at new stratified Upper Paleolithic site of Ushbulak, situated in Shiliktinskaia Valley, Eastern Kazakhstan. There are eight lithological layers, which contain the archaeological material from Holocene to Initial Upper Paleolithic. The most significant number of artifacts was discovered in the layers 6 and 7. The debitage assemblages from these layers represent primary knapping oriented towards blade production by parallel uni- and bidirectional methods of volumetric core reduction. The tool assemblage includes several types, such as end-scrappers, burins on blades, truncated-faceted pieces, and points with basal trimming, bitruncated blades and burin-cores. These features together with a date 45.249–44.012 cal.BP from layer 6 allow us to attribute these two layers 6 and 7 to the Initial Upper Paleolithic and to consider Eastern Kazakhstan as a region between synchronous sites of the Initial Upper Paleolithic in Altai Mountains, Dzungaria and Mongolia.

KW - Central Asia

KW - Initial Upper Paleolithic

KW - Kazakhstan

KW - Lithic assemblages

KW - Tool assemblages

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U2 - 10.1016/j.anthro.2019.07.005

DO - 10.1016/j.anthro.2019.07.005

M3 - статья

AN - SCOPUS:85070341489

VL - 123

SP - 438

EP - 451

JO - Anthropologie (France)

JF - Anthropologie (France)

SN - 0003-5521

IS - 2

ER -