Kostenki 1 and the early Upper Paleolithic of Eastern Europe

Hoffecker, John F.; Holliday, Vance T.; Anikovich, M. V.; Dudin, Alexander E.; Platonova, Nadezhda; Popov, Vasil; Levkovskaya, Galina; Kuzmina, Irina E.; Syromyatnikova, Elena V.; Burova, Natalia; Goldberg, Paul; Macphail, Richard I.; Forman, Steven L.; Carter, Brian J.; Crawford, Laura J.

doi:10.1016/j.jasrep.2015.11.013

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“…3). The geological context of the Kostenki archaeological material has been the subject of considerable research over many decades, and is now generally well understood (Rogachev 1957;Lazukov 1982;Holliday et al 2007;Velichko et al 2009;Sedov et al 2010;Sinitsyn 2014;Hoffecker et al 2016). The older archaeological assemblages lie within and between two paleosol complexes, traditionally called the Upper Humic Bed (UHB) and the stratigraphically lower Lower Humic Bed (LHB).…”

Section: Kostenki and The Early Streletskianmentioning

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“…All three, however, have question marks over their chronostratigraphic position within the Kostenki sequence and/or their status as unmixed assemblages. Layer V of Kostenki 1 is the only assemblage to contain numerous Streletskian points, but doubts have persisted about the pre-ash age of the largest Layer V lithic collection, and more generally about whether "Layer V" in different parts of the site represents the same stratigraphic entity (Anikovich 1977a;Bradley et al 1995;Anikovich et al 2006Anikovich et al , 2008Hoffecker et al 2016). Kostenki 6 has been suggested to have contained a mixture of different assemblages, and the pre-ash age of at least some archaeological material has been questioned (Praslov 1976;Rogachev and Anikovich 1982b;Anikovich 1992).…”

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Eastern Europe’s “Transitional Industry”?: Deconstructing the Early Streletskian

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The Streletskian is central to understanding the onset of the Upper Palaeolithic on the East European Plain. Early Streletskian assemblages are frequently seen as marking the Neanderthal-anatomically modern human (AMH) anthropological transition, as well as the Middle-to-Upper Palaeolithic archaeological transition. The age of key Streletskian assemblages, however, remains unclear, and there are outstanding questions over how they relate to Middle and Early Upper Palaeolithic facies. The three oldest Streletskian layers—Kostenki 1 Layer V, Kostenki 6 and Kostenki 12 Layer III—were excavated by A. N. Rogachev in the mid-20th century. Here, we re-examine these layers in light of problems noted during Rogachev’s campaigns and later excavations. Layer V in the northern part of Kostenki 1 is the most likely assemblage to be unmixed. A new radiocarbon date of 35,100 ± 500 BP (OxA- X-2717-21) for this assemblage agrees with Rogachev’s stratigraphic interpretation and contradicts later claims of a younger age. More ancient radiocarbon dates for Kostenki 1 Layer V are from areas lacking diagnostic Streletskian points. The Kostenki 6 assemblage’s stratigraphic context is extremely poor, but new radiocarbon dates are consistent with Rogachev’s view that the archaeological material was deposited prior to the CI tephra (i.e. >34.3 ka BP). Multiple lines of evidence indicate that Kostenki 12 Layer III contains material of different ages. Despite some uncertainty over the precise relationship between the dated sample and diagnostic lithic material, Kostenki 1 Layer V (North) therefore currently provides the best age estimate for an early Streletskian context. This age is younger than fully Upper Palaeolithic assemblages elsewhere at Kostenki. Other “Streletskian” assemblages and Streletskian points from younger contexts at Kostenki are briefly reviewed, with possible explanations for their chronostratigraphic distribution considered. We caution that the cultural taxon Streletskian should not be applied to assemblages based simply on the presence of bifacially worked artefacts.

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“…Некоторые из них вмещены в выраженные в профиле почвы или горизонты эфемерного почвообразования [Аникович 1993;Седов и др. 2010;Hoffecker et al 2016].…”

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The gravettian / epigravettian in the kostenki-borshevo locality on the Don — the division criteria, cultural interpretation and periodisation

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Dudin²

2019

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“…На Борщёво 5 зафиксировано два горизонта почвообразования, оба вмещают граветтийские артефакты. По меньшей мере, одна четко выраженная палеопочва (гмелинская) выделяется на уровне залегания слоев эпохи граветта на Костёнках 1, Костёнках 21 и, возможно, на Костёнках 11 (Праслов, Рогачёв /ред./ 1982;Попов, Пустовалов 2004;Hoffecker et al 2016). Следовательно, по крайней мере на ряде памятников эпохи граветта, периоды обитания были связаны с эпизодами стабилизации дневной поверхности, благоприятными с точки зрения почвообразования.…”

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ЧЕЛОВЕК И МАМОНТ В ПАЛЕОЛИТЕ ЕВРОПЫ : Часть II : Днепро-Донская Историко-Культурная Область : Памяти Михаила Васильевича Аниковича

Lisitsyn¹,

Platonova²

2019

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Kostenki 1 and the early Upper Paleolithic of Eastern Europe

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Eastern Europe’s “Transitional Industry”?: Deconstructing the Early Streletskian

Eastern Europe’s “Transitional Industry”?: Deconstructing the Early Streletskian

The gravettian / epigravettian in the kostenki-borshevo locality on the Don — the division criteria, cultural interpretation and periodisation

ЧЕЛОВЕК И МАМОНТ В ПАЛЕОЛИТЕ ЕВРОПЫ : Часть II : Днепро-Донская Историко-Культурная Область : Памяти Михаила Васильевича Аниковича

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