Middle Paleolithic technological diversity during MIS 3 in the Western Tian Shan piedmonts: Example of the Katta Sai 1 open -air loess site
К. К. ПавленокInstitute of Archaeology and Ethnography, Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Ac. Lavrentieva 17, Novosibirsk 630090, RussiaMałgorzata KotFaculty of Archaeology, University of Warsaw, Krakowskie Przedmieście 26/28, Warszawa 00-927, PolandГ. Д. ПавленокInstitute of Archaeology and Ethnography, Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Ac. Lavrentieva 17, Novosibirsk 630090, RussiaMaciej T. KrajcarzInstitute of Geological Sciences, Polish Academy of Sciences, Twarda 51/55, Warszawa 00-818, PolandMukhiddin KhudjanazarovInstitute of Archaeological Researches of the Uzbek Academy of Sciences, Abdullaeva 3, Samarkand 703051, UzbekistanMichał LelochFaculty of Archaeology, University of Warsaw, Krakowskie Przedmieście 26/28, Warszawa 00-927, PolandKarol SzymczakFaculty of Archaeology, University of Warsaw, Krakowskie Przedmieście 26/28, Warszawa 00-927, Poland
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This paper aims to reconstruct the general knapping scheme in the Katta Sai 1 assemblage dated to around 40 kya. The site was excavated within a large -scale fieldwork project of interdisciplinary studies on Middle Paleolithic settlements in the western Tian Shan piedmont. The technological analyses allow the identification of a new variant of human adaptation in the regional Middle Paleolithic. The locally -collected river pebbles were knapped using a predetermined Levallois core reduction scheme. Although some volumetric features can be identified within the assemblage, the technology differs from the other well -known sites in the region, such as Obi -Rakhmat of Kulbulak, where blade technology predominates.
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