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- Title
FORMATION OF THE UPPER PALEOLITHIC TRADITIONS IN THE ALTAI.
- Authors
Derevianko, A. P.; Shunkov, M. V.
- Abstract
The article presents a study on the transition of the Upper Paleolithic traditions in the Altai Mountains northeast of the Obi-Rakhmat site in Uzbekistan. It mentions that the first gradual transformation of the local Middle Paleolithic tradition in the Altai Mountains to the Upper Paleolithic happened at around 50-40 kiloannum ago which involves two evolutionary process including the Kara-Bom and the Ust-Karakol. The second appeared between 28-23 kiloannum ago where major technical features of lithic industries stayed within the parallel reduction tradition. Additionally, it imparts that the early Upper Paleolithic Altai belongs to the Karga Period of the upper Pleistocene period according to chronological estimates and stratigraphic evidence.
- Subjects
ALTAI Mountains; RUSSIA; UZBEKISTAN; ANTHROPOLOGICAL research; PALEOLITHIC Period; CHRONOLOGY of the Stone Age; GEOLOGICAL time scales; STRATIGRAPHIC geology; STRATIGRAPHIC paleontology; KARA-Bom Site (Russia); OBI-Rakhmat Site (Uzbekistan)
- Publication
Archaeology, Ethnology & Anthropology of Eurasia (Springer Science & Business Media B.V.), 2004, Vol 19, Issue 3, p12
- ISSN
1563-0110
- Publication type
Article