New Insights Into the Archaeological Record at Chikhen Agui Rockshelter (Mongolia)

Деревянко, А. П.; Olsen, John W.; Tseveendorj, Damdinsuren; Gladyshev, S.A.; Nokhrina, T.I.; Tabarev, Andrei V.

doi:10.1016/j.aeae.2008.07.001

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“…Eu rope and Asia are among the ar eas where neph rite ar tifacts were dis cov ered in many sites, e.g., in It aly, in clud ing Sic ily and es pe cially Sar dinia (D'Amico et al, 2003), Bodensee Lake in Swit zer land (Maoelankiewicz, 1982;Middle ton, 2006;Heflik, 2010), SW Po land (Heflik, 2010), Bul garia (Kostov, 2005;Kostov et al, 2012), Baikal Lake in Si be ria, Rus sia (Losey et al, 2011), Gobi Altai in Mon go lia (Derevianko et al, 2008), Pa ki stan (Fournelle et al, 2010), China (Cheng et al, 2004;Sax et al, 2004;Hung et al, 2007), Tai wan, Viet nam, Phil ip pines, Ma laysia, Cam bo dia, Thai land (Hung et al, 2007). Es pe cially in ter esting are ar ti facts from Pol ish, Swiss, Ital ian and Bul gar ian sites ( Fig.…”

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Petrographic and microprobe study of nephrites from Lower Silesia (SW Poland)

Gil

2013

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Lower Silesia hosts im por tant Eu ro pean neph rite de pos its of Jordanów and less-known of Z³oty Stok. Neph rite ar ti facts were dis cov ered in ar chae o log i cal sites dated back to the Neo lithic pe riod, across Eur asia. Es pe cially ar ti facts found in Po land, Italy and Bul garia may orig i nate from Pol ish nephrites. Now a days, only one ar ti fact is pre cisely linked to Jordanów. Petrographic study of nephrites and chem i cal anal y ses of con stit u ents by means of EMPA al low ac cu rate iden ti fi ca tion of the nephrites. The char ac ter is tic phases of Jordanów tremolite neph rite are ro tated and cataclased di op side porphyroblasts with pres sure shad ows, chlorite lay ers and nests with in ter lock ing non-pseudomorphic tex ture and prehnite veins. The pres ence of hydrogrossular, grossular, ti tan ite, ap a tite with monazite in clu sions, and zir con with pleochroic haloe is typ i cal. Chlorites are usu ally rep re sented by penninite, and mi nor clinochlore and diabantite. The char ac ter is tic fea tures of Z³oty Stok actinolite neph rite are löllingite and di op side crys tals usu ally vis i ble by the na ked eye, with the pres ence of quartz and carbon ates. Löllingite is chem i cally inhomogeneous and gold bear ing. Most of the min er al og i cal-pet ro log i cal fea tures can be ob tained us ing non-de struc tive meth ods.

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Petrographic and microprobe study of nephrites from Lower Silesia (SW Poland)

Gil

2013

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“…A lack of archaeological survey and excavation along much of this route means that confirming humans may have taken such a path will require future work. At the beginning of the route, there are a series of significant Late Pleistocene sites in the Altai region, including Denisova cave, Kara-Tesh, Kara Bom, and Ust-Karakol [72, 73]. All of these sites have IUP lithic material in them, and some, such as Kara Bom and Denisova, also possess Middle Palaeolithic artefacts [3].…”

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“…One exception is the surface site of Luotuoshi [72], which contains typologically IUP assemblages, and is situated close to Manas Lake. Two additional archaeological sites, Chikhen Agui and Tsaagan Agui, within 400-600km of the Least Cost Path, and on the Altai Mountain chain, have IUP lithic assemblages [38, 73, 74].…”

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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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“…Another prehistoric site in Mongolia, Chikhen Agui, has been considered as another potential candidate (Brantingham et al 2001; Derevianko et al 2001, 2004, 2008; Keates 2007). Chikhen Agui locus 2 (layer 3) has been dated to ca.…”

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The Emergence of Pressure Knapping Microblade Technology in Northeast Asia

Coutouly

2018

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This article is a critical review of published data from the earliest evidence of pressure knapped microblade technology from various regions in Northeast Asia (Siberia, Korea, China, Mongolia, Japan, Sakhalin, and Russian Far East), including discussions not only on published dates, but also on published artifacts (drawings and photos) relating to these assemblages. The issue concerning the geographical and chronological origin of microblade technology in Northeast Asia remains a widely debated concern, not only as new data emerge, but also due to researchers having different definitions of the term “microblade” and “microblade core”. In this case, by microblade technology, I refer to the systematic production of microblades using the pressure knapping technique. I therefore review the data in light of this defining feature and conclude that, based on the present state of research, pressure knapping microblade technology probably emerged in the Far East (China, Korea, or Japan) around 30,000–25,000 cal BP, in spite of most authors considering that microblade technology emerged in southern Siberia 40,000–35,000 years ago. In the discussion section, I argue about the potential role of obsidian in the emergence of pressure knapped microblade technology.

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New Insights Into the Archaeological Record at Chikhen Agui Rockshelter (Mongolia)

Cited by 15 publications

References 9 publications

Petrographic and microprobe study of nephrites from Lower Silesia (SW Poland)

Petrographic and microprobe study of nephrites from Lower Silesia (SW Poland)

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

The Emergence of Pressure Knapping Microblade Technology in Northeast Asia

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