Archaeology, Ethnology & Anthropology of Eurasia 37 (3) 2009

Annotation:  Middle Paleolithic Industries of the Early Late Pleistocene (OIS 5) in the Southwestern Part of East Evidence of Environmental Instability of the Lake Baikal Area after the Last Glaciation (Based on P Radiocarbon Chronology of Neolithic and Bronze Age Cultures in Yakutia Clay Balls from Suchu Island as Neolithic Sacral Symbols Models of Metal Production in the Near East (Chalcolithic – Middle Bronze Age) Chinese Inscription on the Lacquer Cup from Noin Ula Mound 20 (Mongolia) Horse Forehead Pieces from the Kuban Region The Pakhomovskaya Culture of the Late Bronze Age Stone Stele Bearing a “Sun-Headed” Deity on the Tuim River, Khakassia (In commemoration of the Finni Methodological Issues in the Digital Mapping of Archaeological Sites The Church of the Saviour from Zashiversk: The Dendrochronological Aspect The “Harlequin”: An Ostyak Idol “Technological Eschatology” in Modern Traditions of Popular Orthodoxy and among the Old Believers o Mummery in the Calendar Rites of German Settlers in Siberia Silver of Kazakh Zergers: Traditions in Modern Jewelry Art Dental Remains from Mound 20 at Noin-Ula, Mongolia The Origin of the Medieval Population of the Novgorod Republic) (10th–13th centuries): A Craniometri   

Middle Paleolithic Industries of the Early Late Pleistocene (OIS 5) in the Southwestern Part of Eastern Europe

N.K. Anisyutkin.

The article focuses on the coexistence of Middle Paleolithic industries in the southwestern part of Eastern Europe in the beginning of the last glaciation (OIS 5). Three assemblages from sites situated on the Middle Dniester, Chernigov Oblast, the Ukraine, and associated with alluvial deposits of the fl oodplain part of the second terrace are compared – Ketrosy, Shipot-2, and Osypka. Geological data unambiguously suggest that these deposits date back to the earliest Würm (OIS 5c and 5d) and are earlier than 100 ka BP. The stone industries represent two distinct variants of the Middle Paleolithic, which disagrees with the Ukrainian archaeologists’ belief that the regional Middle Paleolithic was uniform.

Keywords: Late Pleistocene, Middle Paleolithic layers, southwestern part of Eastern Europe, Dniester valley, fl oodplain alluvium.