Pages: 41-69 | DOI: https://doi.org/10.55086/sp2414169

The paper presents and analyzes the materials of new complex works carried ous at the Lower Palaeolithic (Acheulean) site of Ignatenkov Kutok situated at the foothills of the Northwestern Caucasus. It is argued that the site can be dated to the first half of the Middle Pleistocene, MIS 15-13, ca. 610—490 kya. The lithic inventory of the site belongs to the Middle Acheulean, as is evidenced by the presence of various modifications of picks, rough unstandardized bifaces-handaxes, as well as debitage products associated with a simple non-Levallois technology.

Keywords: Lower Palaeolithic, Middle Acheulean, MIS 15-13, Ignatenkov Kutok, Northwestern Caucasus

Information about author:

Vyacheslav Shchelinsky (Saint Petersburg, Russian Federation). Doctor of Historical Sciences. Institute for the History of Material Culture of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Dvortsovaya Emb., 18, Saint Petersburg, 191186, Russian Federation
E-mail: [email protected]
ORCID: 0000-0002-2131-1292