Pages: 199-214

The article presents the results of 2016 reconnaissance works of the Prut-Dniester Expedition of the Institute for the History of Material Culture of the Russian Academy of Sciences on the left bank of the Middle Dniester. The works were aimed at searching for and monitiring Palaeolithic localirties, with particular attention given to stratified sites. A stratified site named Kamenka 7 with Upper Palaeolithic assemblage was discovered near the village Solnechny (Kamensky district). In addition, the team monitored the condition of the stratified Middle Paleolithic site in the grotto of Vikhvatintsy (Vykhvatintsy village, Rybnitsa district). As a result, a previously unknown part of the site with a Middle Paleolithic cultural layer was discovered.

Keywords: Transdniestria, Prut-Dniester Expedition, Palaeolithic sites, Kamenka 7, Grushka, Vykhvatintsy grotto

Information about authors:

Alexander Otcherednoy (Saint Petersburg, 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
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Serghei Covalenco (Kishinev, Moldova). Doctor of History. National Museum of History of Moldova. 31 August St., 121a, Kishinev, MD-2012, Moldova
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Ekaterina Voskresenskaya (Moscow, Russian Federation). Institute of Geography of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Staromonetnyi Lane, 29, Moscow, 119017, Russian Federation
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Vitalij Sinika (Tiraspol, Moldova). Candidate of Historical Sciences. Pridnestrovian State University named after T. G. Shevchenko. 25 Oktiabria St., 128, Tiraspol, MD-3300, Moldova
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