Upper Palaeolithic in Eastern Kazakhstan (Based on the Materials of the Ushbulak Site)
Paleoliticul superior dezvoltat în Kazahstanul de Est (conform materialelor staţiunii Ushbulak)
Развитый верхний палеолит в Восточном Казахстане (по материалам стоянки Ушбулак)
Pavlenok G. Bocharova E. Girya E. Taimagambetov Z. Anoikin A.
2024High Anthropological School University
Stratum Plus
2024Issue 1257 - 275 pp.
This article focuses on the Upper Paleolithic lithic industries from layers 5.1-4 of the Ushbulak site in Eastern Kazakhstan. These assemblages, dated approximately to ~24-21 kyr BP, show the appearance of pressure flaking technique, being thus chronologically consistent with the earliest manifestations of this knapping technique known in South Korea and Northeast China. The primary reduction and toolset composition of the Late Upper Paleolithic assemblages at Ushbulak show fundamental differences from both the preceding Initial Upper Paleolithic of layers 7-6 and the subsequent Final Upper Paleolithic assemblages of layers 3-2. Moreover, no direct analogies with the synchronous industries in Kazakhstan and its immediate neighboring regions (Russian Altai) can be identified for the time being. The available data suggest that the materials from layers 5.1-4 mark an episode of population replacement in this part of Kazakhstan, possibly associated with a migration from the Northern China.
cores , lithic industry , microblades , pressure flaking technique
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Candidate of Historical Sciences, Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography, Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Akademik Lavrentiev Ave., 17, Novosibirsk, 630090, Russian Federation
Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography, Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Akademik Lavrentiev Ave., 17, Novosibirsk, 630090, Russian Federation
Candidate of Historical Sciences, Institute for the History of Material Culture of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Dvortsovaya Emb., 18, Saint Petersburg, 191186, Russian Federation
Academician of the Academy of Sciences of Kazakhstan, National Museum of the Republic of Kazakhstan, Tauelsizdik Ave., 54, Astana, 010000, Kazakhstan
Candidate of Historical Sciences
Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography
Candidate of Historical Sciences
Academician of the Academy of Sciences of Kazakhstan
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