Pages:  173-196 | DOI: https://doi.org/10.55086/sp251173196

The paper presents the author’s version of the cultural attribution of the corraded industries of the Southern Angara region from the Stoilo (II cultural layer) and Sosnovyi Bor (VI cultural layer) sites. Based on the similarity of the knapping technology, parameters of blanks and types of tools, it is proposed to associate these assemblages with the “classic” complex of the Malta site. The association with the «Makarovo Paleolithic stratum» can be assumed only within the framework of the evolutionary paradigm, i.e., provided that the Makarovo IV is accepted as the ancestral form of the Middle stage of the Upper Paleolithic of the region. The process of aeolian corrasion of artifacts, previously dated to the time of the Konoshchel episode (~MIS-3) or the Murukta cryochron (MIS-4), in the proposed paleoecological model correlates with the cryoarid environments of the early Sartan (MIS-2).

Keywords: Baikal Siberia, Early Sartan, Initial Upper Paleolithic, Middle Upper Paleolithic, blade industry, «Makarovo stratum», Malta, Makarovo IV, aeolian corrasion

Information about author:

Aleksey Kuznetsov (Irkutsk, Russian Federation). Candidate of Historical Sciences. Scientific Research Center “Baikal region”, Irkutsk State University. K. Marx St., 1, Irkutsk, 664003, Russian Federation
E-mail: [email protected]
ORCID: 0000-0003-0903-4728