THE ‘TRI SKALY’ GEOARCHAEOLOGICAL SITE IN WESTERN TRANSBAIKALIA: NEW CHRONOLOGICAL STUDIES

  • Y.E. Antonova Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography SB RAS; https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6941-0305 Email: yulya_an@mail.ru
  • В.И. Ташак Институт монголоведения, буддологии и тибетологии СО РАН https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1891-9915 Email: tvi1960@mail.ru
  • A.V. Petrozhitskii Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography SB RAS; Budker Institute of Nuclear Physics SB RAS; Novosibirsk State University https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6653-2232 Email: petrozhav@gmail.com
DOI_disc_logo https://doi.org/10.14258/tpai(2022)34(2).-02
Keywords: Early Upper Paleolithic, Tolbaga culture, Paleolithic site Tri Skaly, stone industry, chronology, Western Transbaikalia

Abstract

The ‘Tri Skaly’ archaeological multilayered site in Western Transbaikalia is one of the latest discovered which investigations began in 2015. Lower lithological layers at this site contain archaeological materials typical for the Western Transbaikalian Early Upper Palaeolithic and revealed analogies in different areas with the materials of the most investigated sites belonged to this period: Podzvonkaya Eastern Complex, Podzvonkaya South-Eastern Complex, Tolbaga, Kamenka A and others. At the present chronological research concerning initial and early stages of the Upper Palaeolithic provides series of C-14 dates, which falls mostly in the range of 35–40 kya. Based on the morphology and typology of the stone artifacts from the Tri Skaly site lower layers have been dated to the early stage of the Upper Palaeolithic. The first radiocarbon date obtained on the bones from the bottom part of the 4 th lithological layer and indicated the age of 26 kya has put in question the dating made by correlations. New radiocarbon AMS-dates obtained on the bones from the same layer show the correctness of the first interpretation. According to these dates palaeolithic horizons of the Tri Skaly site are reliably dated in the range of 35–40 kya. Calibrated values point to the age near 40 kya as the most valid.

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Y.E. Antonova, Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography SB RAS;

Junior Researcher of Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography SB RAS

В.И. Ташак, Институт монголоведения, буддологии и тибетологии СО РАН

Candidate of Historical Sciences (History), Associate Professor, Leading Researcher of Institute of Mongolian, Buddhist and Tibetan Studies Siberian  Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences

A.V. Petrozhitskii , Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography SB RAS; Budker Institute of Nuclear Physics SB RAS; Novosibirsk State University

Senior Assistant, Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography (IAET SB RAS), Novosibirsk, Russia; Researcher of Budker Institute of Nuclear Physics SB RAS, Novosibirsk, Russia; engineer, Novosibirsk State University, AMS Golden Valley

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Published
2022-07-11
How to Cite
Antonova Y., Ташак В., Petrozhitskii A. THE ‘TRI SKALY’ GEOARCHAEOLOGICAL SITE IN WESTERN TRANSBAIKALIA: NEW CHRONOLOGICAL STUDIES // THEORY AND PRACTICE OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL RESEARCH, 2022. Vol. 34, № 2. P. 25-36 DOI: 10.14258/tpai(2022)34(2).-02. URL: http://journal.asu.ru/tpai/article/view/11669.
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Vol 34 No 2 (2022)
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MATERIAL ANALYSIS IN ARCHAEOLOGY

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