PALEOENVIRONMENT. THE STONE AGETHE EARLY UPPER PALEOLITHIC OF THE GOBI ALTAI REGION IN MONGOLIA (Based on Materials from the Chikhen-2 Site)☆
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Archaeological and environmental cave records in the Gobi-Altai Mountains, Mongolia
2021, Quaternary InternationalCitation Excerpt :A brief survey was carried out around the surrounding hills of Chikhen Agui and the nearby spring. The survey yielded lithic artefacts ranging from the early Upper Palaeolithic to the Bronze Age, which is consistent with previously published information (Derevianko et al., 2003, 2008, 2015). The cherts vary between translucent patinated to opaque green or black types.
Hunting, herding, and people in the rock art of Mongolia: New discoveries in the Gobi-Altai Mountains
2021, Archaeological Research in AsiaCitation Excerpt :Severe Holocene wind deflation of most of the landscape in the Gobi-Altai (Jugder et al., 2018) has made stratified archaeological sites rare. Late Palaeolithic archaeological sites in the Gobi-Altai Mountains are preserved in and around caves such as at the stratified rock shelter of Chikhen Agui (Derevianko et al., 2003), and its neighbouring open-air site, Chikhen 2 (Derevianko et al., 2015). Artefacts recovered from Chikhen Agui include miniaturised lithics and ornamental beads made from ostrich eggshell (Derevianko et al., 2008).
A new Upper Paleolithic occupation at the site of Tolbor-21 (Mongolia): Site formation, human behavior and implications for the regional sequence
2020, Quaternary InternationalCitation Excerpt :Notably, the IUP includes the earliest examples of personal ornament and formal bone tools (Derevianko and Rybin, 2003; Lbova, 2011). Some authors have considered late examples of the IUP until ca. 30 ka cal BP in the Gobi Altai and the Cis-Baikal region (Derevianko et al., 2004, 2015), but closer to the study area the industry is replaced around 40 ka cal BP by assemblages grouped under the label Early Upper Paleolithic (EUP) (Gladyshev et al., 2010; Rybin et al., 2016). More variable in geographical distribution and assemblage composition, the EUP moves away from a strict focus on large blades to integrate a more specialized production of bladelets (Rybin et al., 2007), a shared pattern globally marking changes in successful hunting weaponry (Teyssandier et al., 2010) and hunter-gatherer patterns of mobility (Bon, 2005).
Middle and Upper Paleolithic Levallois technology in eastern Central Asia
2020, Quaternary InternationalCitation Excerpt :The upper unit (Layers 2.4–1) is associated with the later stages of the UP. Only one radiocarbon date was generated from Layer 2.5–34,900–34,100 ya (Derevianko et al., 2015a). Here, there is abundant evidence of the use of the Levallois parallel method of core preparation for production of predefined flakes, including typical nuclei, ovoids and rectangular flakes with facetted striking platforms, as well as evidence of centripetal and convergent bidirectional methods (Figs. 6, 11, 14).
New evidence for Paleolithic human behavior in Mongolia: The Kharganyn Gol 5 site
2017, Quaternary InternationalCitation Excerpt :In contrast with the IUP, little evidence of Middle Paleolithic (MP) occupation has been found in the region (Derevianko, 2005). Only a handful of sites located in the Russian Altai, the Transbaikal region, central Mongolia and the Gobi Desert document a stratigraphic succession between a local MP and the IUP (Derevianko et al., 2000; 2010, 2015). Due to typological overlaps, these industries are not always easily differentiated, especially on the basis of small assemblages.
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