The Middle Paleolithic of Tsagaan Agui Cave in the Gobi Altai region of Mongolia and its Siberian and Central Asian links

IF 1.1 2区历史学 0 ARCHAEOLOGY Archaeological Research in Asia Pub Date : 2023-09-01 DOI:10.1016/j.ara.2023.100462

Arina M. Khatsenovich , Evgeny P. Rybin , Yadmaa Tserendagva , Dashzeveg Bazargur , Ganbold Margad-Erdene , Daria V. Marchenko , Byambaa Gunchinsuren , John W. Olsen , Anatoly P. Derevianko

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Stratified Middle Paleolithic industries in Mongolia are mostly known from final Middle Paleolithic complexes in the Orkhon and Kharganyn Gol valleys in the north-central part of the country, while Middle Paleolithic sites in the Gobi Desert have not attracted as much attention. Re-analysis of archaeological collections made during excavations of Tsagaan Agui Cave in 1987–1989 have made it possible to define transitional specific tool types as well as the systems of primary flaking employed through different lithic complexes. Recent excavations of Tsagaan Agui in 2021 and 2022 place the lithic complexes first identified there in the 1980s into a more refined chronological sequence. Preliminary technological and typological analyses reveal the non-Levallois Mousterian character of the Middle Paleolithic industry at Tsagaan Agui Cave. Here, we attempt to identify analogs of this industry in Siberia and eastern Asia.

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蒙古戈壁阿尔泰地区Tsagaan Agui洞穴的旧石器时代中期及其与西伯利亚和中亚的联系

蒙古分层的中旧石器时代工业主要是在该国中北部的鄂尔沁和哈尔干宁谷地的中旧石器时代复合体中被发现的，而戈壁沙漠中的中旧石器时代遗址并没有引起那么多的关注。对1987年至1989年在Tsagaan Agui洞穴挖掘期间收集的考古藏品进行重新分析，可以确定过渡性的特定工具类型，以及通过不同的石器复合体使用的初级剥落系统。最近在2021年和2022年对Tsagaan Agui进行的挖掘，将20世纪80年代首次在那里发现的石器建筑群纳入了更精确的时间顺序。初步的技术分析和类型学分析揭示了tagaan Agui洞旧石器时代中期工业的非levallois Mousterian特征。在这里，我们试图在西伯利亚和东亚找到类似的行业。

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期刊介绍： Archaeological Research in Asia presents high quality scholarly research conducted in between the Bosporus and the Pacific on a broad range of archaeological subjects of importance to audiences across Asia and around the world. The journal covers the traditional components of archaeology: placing events and patterns in time and space; analysis of past lifeways; and explanations for cultural processes and change. To this end, the publication will highlight theoretical and methodological advances in studying the past, present new data, and detail patterns that reshape our understanding of it. Archaeological Research in Asia publishes work on the full temporal range of archaeological inquiry from the earliest human presence in Asia with a special emphasis on time periods under-represented in other venues. Journal contributions are of three kinds: articles, case reports and short communications. Full length articles should present synthetic treatments, novel analyses, or theoretical approaches to unresolved issues. Case reports present basic data on subjects that are of broad interest because they represent key sites, sequences, and subjects that figure prominently, or should figure prominently, in how scholars both inside and outside Asia understand the archaeology of cultural and biological change through time. Short communications present new findings (e.g., radiocarbon dates) that are important to the extent that they reaffirm or change the way scholars in Asia and around the world think about Asian cultural or biological history.