Paleolithic of the Kazan Volga Region: research history and new data

Археология евразийских степей

Madina Sh. Galimova¹ 

[1] Institute of Archaeology named after A. Kh. Khalikov, Tatarstan Academy of Sciences;

关键词: archaeology;    paleolithic;    middle volga region;    confluence of the kama and volga;    stone inventory;    pleistocene fauna;    radiocarbon dates;   

DOI  :  10.24852/2587-6112.2022.1.106.120

来源: DOAJ

【 摘 要 】

Main stages of the search for Paleolithic sites on the territory of the Kazan Volga region from the second half of the XIX century to the current moment are presented in the paper. According to the author, reliable data on the settlement of this territory in the Lower and Middle Paleolithic have not been received to date. At the same time, stratified Paleolithic sites discovered in 2018 – 2020 in the left bank of the Kama–Volga confluence open up the possibility of a comprehensive study of sites of the transition period from the Middle to the Upper Paleolithic here in the future. The first radiocarbon date obtained in the Kazan Volga region for the paleolithic and paleofaunal location of the Beganchik (about 47 thousand years ago) confirms the assumptions about the presence of an early cultural layer in this area of the confluence of the Volga and Kama. This layer has obviously a much older archaeological age than the sites of the Late Paleolithic and the Ust-Kama culture of the Paleolithic and Mesolithic transition, studied in the Kazan Volga region and the adjacent territory of the Middle Volga region.

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