НОВЫЙ АРХЕОЛОГИЧЕСКИЙ КОМПЛЕКС ЭПОХИ ФИНАЛЬНОГО ПАЛЕОЛИТА СЕВЕРА БАЙКАЛЬСКОЙ СИБИРИ (ПРЕДВАРИТЕЛЬНЫЕ РЕЗУЛЬТАТЫ ИССЛЕДОВАНИЯ 3-го КУЛЬТУРНОГО ГОРИЗОНТА КОВРИЖКИ III НА ВИТИМЕ)

• Main Authors: ТЕТЕНЬКИН А.В., ИНЕШИН Е.М., ЕГОРОВА Н.А.
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Федеральное государственное бюджетное образовательное учреждение высшего образования «Иркутский национальный исследовательский технический университет» 2012
• Subjects: Sumnagin culture; Yakutia
• Online Access: http://cyberleninka.ru/article/n/novyy-arheologicheskiy-kompleks-epohi-finalnogo-paleolita-severa-baykalskoy-sibiri-predvaritelnye-rezultaty-issledovaniya-3-go; http://cyberleninka.ru/article_covers/16976664.png

The article is about the preliminary results of the excavations in 2010 of the new cultural horizon 3 of archaeological site Kovrizhka III on Vitim River (Irkutskaia oblast’, Baikalo-Patom’s plateau). According to radiocarbon dates, it’s already known that earliest cultural horizon 3 at Kovrizhka III is about 11,400 1 4C BP. One of the most characteristic artifacts of this assemblage is the bifaces. They are different from each other: preform for the core, axe, multi-functional tool, sidescraper. Other specific implements are the microcores. They demonstrate themselves wedge-shaped terminal and prismatic forms and as the above cultural horizon 2 express the earliest evidences of the appearance of prismatic microblade splitting technology. The cultural horizon 3 is formally characterized as an Upper Paleolithic Duktai-like assemblage but with such feature as microprismatic splitting usually addressed in Yakutia to later Sumnagin culture.