New evidence for Paleolithic human behavior in Mongolia: The Kharganyn Gol 5 site

Khatsenovich, Arina M.; Rybin, Evgeny P.; Gunchinsuren, Byambaa; Olsen, John W.; Shelepaev, R.A.; Зоткина, Л. В.; Bolorbat, Tsedendorj; Popov, A.Yu.; Odsuren, Davaakhuu

doi:10.1016/j.quaint.2016.10.013

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“…21-18 ka, north China was a cold, arid desert and steppe, with permafrost extensive above 1000-1300 m (1000m lower than today), and annual temperatures 8-12 o C. colder than now (Cui et al, 2004). Mongolia may also have been largely depopulated as there is no record of occupation in the Tolbor or Kharganyn Gol valleys between 30,000 and 19,000 years ago (Khatsenovich et al, 2017). In southern Siberia, regions such as Transbaikalia were either abandoned or made archaeologically invisible for at least 2-3 kyr between about 24.8 ka and 22.7 ka (Graf and Buvit, 2017 Ma'anshan in the Nihewan Basin is dated at 18 ka but few details are available (Yang et al 2018).…”

Section: Was North China Depopulated In the Lgm?mentioning

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A demographic history of Late Pleistocene China

Dennell

Martinón‐Torres

Castro

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Quaternary International

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Section: Was North China Depopulated In the Lgm?mentioning

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A demographic history of Late Pleistocene China

Dennell

Martinón‐Torres

Castro

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Quaternary International

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“…Assemblages with these characteristics are distributed broadly across Eurasia, from the eastern Mediterranean to northeast Asia. In northeast Asia, IUP assemblages have been documented in Siberia, Mongolia, as well as northern China, with particular "hot spots" in the areas surrounding Baikal lake, in northern Mongolia, and in the Siberian Altai [16][17][18][19][20][21]. Our main aim here is to examine the intra-assemblage variation in the collection from the 1963 excavation at Shuidonggou locality 1 (SDG 1) in northern China, in an effort to situate the site and assemblage within the range of IUP variability in northeast Asia.…”

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Intra-assemblage variation in the macro-blade assemblage from the 1963 excavation at Shuidonggou locality 1, northern China, in the context of regional variation

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Chen

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PLoS ONE

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The emergence of the Upper Paleolithic and regional variability in early Upper Paleolithic industries are prominent topics in Paleolithic archaeology, with special relevance to the dispersal and differentiation of early modern human cultures across Eurasia. The so-called Initial Upper Paleolithic (IUP) has been considered a key element in the emergence of the Upper Paleolithic in northern Asia. Here, we examine the intra-assemblage variation in the collection from the 1963 excavation at Shuidonggou locality 1, a major IUP site in northern China. We combine technological and quantitative attribute analyses to investigate the variety of core reduction sequences and tool manufacture behaviors at the site. A range of core reduction sequences have been documented at Shuidonggou locality 1, including both simple core reduction and prepared core reduction yielding laminar (blade-like) products. The simple core reduction component may due to mixed non-IUP assemblages from different archaeological layers. Among the laminar core reduction sequences, the main strategy involves asymmetrical exploitation of the broad face of core blank, producing blades and elongate flakes, and resembling a recurrent Levallois blade method sensu lato. We compare Shuidonggou laminar blank production with that of IUP assemblages in the Siberian Altai, northern Mongolia, and the Transbaikal region. The comparison demonstrates a general consistency to the basic blank production in IUP assemblages across northern Asia, with some regional variation. The results suggest a multi-directional model of diffusion of the IUP in northeast Asia.

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“…These Trans-Baikal IUP sites are Varvina Gora, Kandabaevo, Tolbaga, with the earliest material dating to ~41ka, 43ka and 34ka respectively [91, 92]. In addition, the sites 500km to the south in the Selenge River valley, which feeds into Lake Baikal, of Tolbor 4, Orkhon 1 & 7, and Kharganyn Gol 5 have similarly early dates of 41ka, 44ka and 48ka, respectively [93–96]. In proximity to Shuidonggou, the path also passes the surface IUP site of Yushuwan [97, 98].…”

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Heading north: Late Pleistocene environments and human dispersals in central and eastern Asia

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The adaptability of our species, as revealed by the geographic routes and palaeoenvironmental contexts of human dispersal beyond Africa, is a prominent topic in archaeology and palaeoanthropology. Northern and Central Asia have largely been neglected as it has been assumed that the deserts and mountain ranges of these regions acted as ‘barriers’, forcing human populations to arc north into temperate and arctic Siberia. Here, we test this proposition by constructing Least Cost Path models of human dispersal under glacial and interstadial conditions between prominent archaeological sites in Central and East Asia. Incorporating information from palaeoclimatic, palaeolake, and archaeological data, we demonstrate that regions such as the Gobi Desert and the Altai Mountain chains could have periodically acted as corridors and routes for human dispersals and framing biological interactions between hominin populations. Review of the archaeological datasets in these regions indicates the necessity of wide-scale archaeological survey and excavations in many poorly documented parts of Eurasia. We argue that such work is likely to highlight the ‘northern routes’ of human dispersal as variable, yet crucial, foci for understanding the extreme adaptive plasticity characteristic of the emergence of Homo sapiens as a global species, as well as the cultural and biological hybridization of the diverse hominin species present in Asia during the Late Pleistocene.

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New evidence for Paleolithic human behavior in Mongolia: The Kharganyn Gol 5 site

Cited by 26 publications

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A demographic history of Late Pleistocene China

A demographic history of Late Pleistocene China

Intra-assemblage variation in the macro-blade assemblage from the 1963 excavation at Shuidonggou locality 1, northern China, in the context of regional variation

Heading north: Late Pleistocene environments and human dispersals in central and eastern Asia

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