THE JUSTIFICATIONS FOR THE EARLY GEOMETRIC MICROLYTS AGE IN THE WESTERN CENTRAL ASIA

  • K. A. Kolobova Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography SB RAS Email: kolobovak@yandex.ru
  • A. I. Krivoshapkin Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography SB RAS Email: krivoshapkin@mail.ru
  • S. V. Shnaider Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography SB RAS Email: sveta.shnayder@gmail.com
  • A. V. Shalagina Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography SB RAS Email: aliona.shalagina@yandex.ru
DOI_disc_logo https://doi.org/10.14258/tpai(2018)1(21).-11
Keywords: Central Asia, Geometric microliths, Non-geometric microliths, Absolute Age, Scalene

Abstract

At the current stage of archaeological science development, geometric microliths are regarded as important economic, cultural and chronological markers, the appearance of which indicates the use of composite tools, the increase in the mobility of ancient humans, migrations and the exchange of technological ideas. The proposed article is devoted to justifying the early age of scalene triangles appearance. Formerly, researchers of the Central Asian Upper Paleolithic had stressed the sheer absence of not only the backing technique and geometric microliths but also of the technology for bladelet production in that region. Archeological studies that have been carried out in that region since 1998 provide new information about the local Upper Paleolithic and prove the early appearance of geometric microliths and the backing technique in Central Asian Upper Paleolithic. Research results over the last decade have made it possible to refute this assumption and prove the comparatively early appearance of bladelet technologies in the context of the Upper Paleolithic Kulbulakian culture. In the Kulbulakian assemblages, we can trace some of the main trends of the development of Upper Paleolithic in western Central Asia, including the trend towards the backing type of microlitization. This trend has a strong connection to the spread of carinated pieces and its further replacement by prismatic cores. On the basis of the available absolute dates, the time span of the Kulbulakian is estimated at 39–23 kyr BP.

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Kolobova K. A., Krivoshapkin A. I., Shnaider S. V., Shalagina A. V. THE JUSTIFICATIONS FOR THE EARLY GEOMETRIC MICROLYTS AGE IN THE WESTERN CENTRAL ASIA // THEORY AND PRACTICE OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL RESEARCH, 1. Vol. 21, № 1. P. 155-164 DOI: 10.14258/tpai(2018)1(21).-11. URL: http://journal.asu.ru/tpai/article/view/%2821%29.-11.
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