UPPER CULTURAL HORIZON OF THE STONE AGE MONUMENT EKIBASTUZ-4

Abstract

The article gives a description of quartzite equipment from the upper cultural horizon of the Stone Age monument Ekibastuz-4, obtained in the process of cleaning in 1988. There is given a characteristic of specific type of the industry, which has some peculiar features: in primary splitting – a combination of lower middle palaeolithic techniques of cleaving of flakes and the upper palaeolithic methods of removal of plates, in secondary splitting – a Tayacian component, broad development of technology of section of preparations and combination theory of working parts (elements) of tools, a series of specific inset tools from flakes and also bilaterally processed tools. A chronological scheme of distribution of archaeological monuments of the left-bank Irtysh Land with age from the maximum of Sartan glaciation to the beginning of the Hologene is proposed, in which the upper horizon of Ekibastuz-4 refers to the Allerod-preboreal (12–10 thousand years ago).