TY - JOUR

T1 - The first evidence of bifacial technology in the middle palaeolithic of Tajikistan

AU - Khujageldiev, Tura

AU - Kolobova, Kseniya

AU - Shnaider, Svetlana

AU - Krivoshapkin, Andrey

PY - 2019

Y1 - 2019

N2 - The study of Palaeolithic bifacial technologies in western Central Asia is of crucial importance because of their traditional interpretation as a diagnostic element of the Acheulian techno-complex. At the same time, there was noted almost complete absence of bifaces and bifacial preparation spalls in the regional Middle Palaeolithic assemblages. The paper presents the discovery of the first bifaces in the Middle Palaeolithic of Tajikistan, on the Gofilabad site. The stratigraphic position of the artifacts in question within the first buried paleosol alow to date them to MIS5. This discovery expands the geographic scope of the recently defined Middle Palaeolithic bifacial tradition in Western Central Asia.

AB - The study of Palaeolithic bifacial technologies in western Central Asia is of crucial importance because of their traditional interpretation as a diagnostic element of the Acheulian techno-complex. At the same time, there was noted almost complete absence of bifaces and bifacial preparation spalls in the regional Middle Palaeolithic assemblages. The paper presents the discovery of the first bifaces in the Middle Palaeolithic of Tajikistan, on the Gofilabad site. The stratigraphic position of the artifacts in question within the first buried paleosol alow to date them to MIS5. This discovery expands the geographic scope of the recently defined Middle Palaeolithic bifacial tradition in Western Central Asia.

KW - Acheulian techno-complex

KW - Bifacial technology

KW - Gofilabad site

KW - Loess sequence

KW - Middle Palaeolithic

KW - Western Central Asia

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M3 - Article

AN - SCOPUS:85063434283

VL - 2019

SP - 265

EP - 277

JO - Stratum Plus

JF - Stratum Plus

SN - 1608-9057

IS - 1

ER -