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Ushbulak-1: New Initial Upper Palaeolithic evidence from Central Asia. / Shunkov, Mikhail; Anoikin, Anton; Taimagambetov, Zhaken et al.
In: Antiquity, Vol. 91, No. 360, 1, 01.12.2017.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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T1 - Ushbulak-1: New Initial Upper Palaeolithic evidence from Central Asia
AU - Shunkov, Mikhail
AU - Anoikin, Anton
AU - Taimagambetov, Zhaken
AU - Pavlenok, Konstantin
AU - Kharevich, Vladimir
AU - Kozlikin, Maxim
AU - Pavlenok, Galina
N1 - Funding Information: (14-50-00036) from the Russian Science Foundation. Publisher Copyright: Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd, 2017.
PY - 2017/12/1
Y1 - 2017/12/1
N2 - 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 Asia, the Near East, the Altai Mountains, Transbaikalia, Mongolia and northern China. A characteristic IUP assemblage has also been recently found in Kazakhstan (Ushbulak-1) (Shunkov et al. 2016). Large blades and elongated pointed flakes dominate these assemblages, and there is a prevalence of Upper Palaeolithic tool types in tool sets.
AB - 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 Asia, the Near East, the Altai Mountains, Transbaikalia, Mongolia and northern China. A characteristic IUP assemblage has also been recently found in Kazakhstan (Ushbulak-1) (Shunkov et al. 2016). Large blades and elongated pointed flakes dominate these assemblages, and there is a prevalence of Upper Palaeolithic tool types in tool sets.
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U2 - 10.15184/aqy.2017.208
DO - 10.15184/aqy.2017.208
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85038435802
VL - 91
JO - Antiquity
JF - Antiquity
SN - 0003-598X
IS - 360
M1 - 1
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