ARCHAEOLOGICAL SITE SLOISTAYA SKALA IN THE WESTERN TRANSBAIKALIA: NEW DATA ON THE KHENGEREKTE CULTURE
Abstract
Archeological culture named Khengerekte is distinguished on the materials from the lower part of the 6th layer of multilayered site Barun-Alan-1, situated in the Uda River basin (the eastern tribute of the Selenga River). During the last decade this site had been the only site the materials of which contained representative archaeologicalassemblage characterizing Khengerekte culture. In 2015, the investigation of a new archaeological site named Sloistaya Skala started. The site is located in 500 m from Barun-Alan-1, but separated from it by a rocky spur. Themost of finds at the Sloistaya Skala site are stone artifacts. According to their analysis, more than 95% of all stone artifacts can be considered in the frame of one technological tradition, which has full analogies in the stone industry of the lower part of layer no.6 at Barun-Alan-1. Hence, the Sloistaya Skala site is one more locality with recorded Khengerekte Paleolithic culture. This site differs from Barun-Alan-1 by the absence of archaeological materials in srtatigraphical layers below the cultural layer at the excavated area. This fact excludes the admixture of more ancient archaeological materials among the artifacts characterized as typical for Khengerekte culture.
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