Workshop Site of Kusimovo-6 — a Middle Paleolithic Monument in the Southern Transurals
In 2019, the workshop site of Kusimovo-6 in Abzelilovsky District of Bashkortostan (Russia) was discovered and explored on a large area. A collection of Middle Paleolithic artifacts numbering over 2 thousand was obtained. Goals. The work attempts at an analysis of the collection. Results. The latt...
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| author | Vyacheslav G. Kotov Nikita S. Savelev Rida R. Ruslanova |
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| description | In 2019, the workshop site of Kusimovo-6 in Abzelilovsky District of Bashkortostan (Russia)
was discovered and explored on a large area. A collection of Middle Paleolithic artifacts numbering over
2 thousand was obtained. Goals. The work attempts at an analysis of the collection. Results. The latter
shows its homogeneity. So, nucleuses are subprismatic, with longitudinal cleavages, orthogonal, radial,
and of unsystematic types. Many cores have two or more strike platforms. A third of the flakes have
natural strike platforms and backrest. The producing of bifacial tools basically repeats the nucleuses’
production patterns. The tools comprise a chopper, 2 blanks of bifaces, 2 taiyak points, a point, butt
knives. Two-sided producing was performed on working areas of other categories of tools (carvers,
punctures, points, tools with a spike, beak-shaped, notched tools, scrapers). By all indications, the site has
a non-Levallois character and belongs to the industry of the Tayacian tradition of the Middle Paleolithic.
The workshop site of Kusimovo-6 reveals the greatest similarity with the 3rd and 4th layers (Tayacian
industry of the Middle Paleolithic) of the Starye Duruitory Grotto in Northwest Moldova. Accordingly,
the workshop site of Kusimovo-6 is dated to the first half of the Rissian period (300-200 thousand years
ago). |
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| spelling | doaj.art-289299a9aa5b4cb18f4b90b2d8011e6a2022-12-21T17:22:59ZengРоссийской академии наук, Калмыцкий научный центрOriental Studies2619-09902619-10082020-12-0113615941612https://doi.org/10.22162/2619-0990-2020-52-6-1594-1612Workshop Site of Kusimovo-6 — a Middle Paleolithic Monument in the Southern TransuralsVyacheslav G. Kotov0https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3510-0058Nikita S. Savelev1https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3643-2388Rida R. Ruslanova2https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3929-9516 Institute of History, Language and Literature of the Ufa Federal Research Centre of the RAS Institute of History, Language and Literature of the Ufa Federal Research Centre of the RASNational Museum of BashkortostanIn 2019, the workshop site of Kusimovo-6 in Abzelilovsky District of Bashkortostan (Russia) was discovered and explored on a large area. A collection of Middle Paleolithic artifacts numbering over 2 thousand was obtained. Goals. The work attempts at an analysis of the collection. Results. The latter shows its homogeneity. So, nucleuses are subprismatic, with longitudinal cleavages, orthogonal, radial, and of unsystematic types. Many cores have two or more strike platforms. A third of the flakes have natural strike platforms and backrest. The producing of bifacial tools basically repeats the nucleuses’ production patterns. The tools comprise a chopper, 2 blanks of bifaces, 2 taiyak points, a point, butt knives. Two-sided producing was performed on working areas of other categories of tools (carvers, punctures, points, tools with a spike, beak-shaped, notched tools, scrapers). By all indications, the site has a non-Levallois character and belongs to the industry of the Tayacian tradition of the Middle Paleolithic. The workshop site of Kusimovo-6 reveals the greatest similarity with the 3rd and 4th layers (Tayacian industry of the Middle Paleolithic) of the Starye Duruitory Grotto in Northwest Moldova. Accordingly, the workshop site of Kusimovo-6 is dated to the first half of the Rissian period (300-200 thousand years ago).https://kigiran.elpub.ru/jour/article/view/2703/2479middle paleolithictayacian traditiontechnologytypologysouthern transurals |
| spellingShingle | Vyacheslav G. Kotov Nikita S. Savelev Rida R. Ruslanova Workshop Site of Kusimovo-6 — a Middle Paleolithic Monument in the Southern Transurals Oriental Studies middle paleolithic tayacian tradition technology typology southern transurals |
| title | Workshop Site of Kusimovo-6 — a Middle Paleolithic Monument in the Southern Transurals |
| title_full | Workshop Site of Kusimovo-6 — a Middle Paleolithic Monument in the Southern Transurals |
| title_fullStr | Workshop Site of Kusimovo-6 — a Middle Paleolithic Monument in the Southern Transurals |
| title_full_unstemmed | Workshop Site of Kusimovo-6 — a Middle Paleolithic Monument in the Southern Transurals |
| title_short | Workshop Site of Kusimovo-6 — a Middle Paleolithic Monument in the Southern Transurals |
| title_sort | workshop site of kusimovo 6 a middle paleolithic monument in the southern transurals |
| topic | middle paleolithic tayacian tradition technology typology southern transurals |
| url | https://kigiran.elpub.ru/jour/article/view/2703/2479 |
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