nguhistВестник Новосибирского государственного университета. Серия: История, филологияVestnik NSU. Series: History and Philology1818-7919Novosibirsk State University10.25205/1818-7919-2024-23-7-43-54nguhist-2141Research ArticleАРХЕОЛОГИЯ ЕВРАЗИИARCHAEOLOGY OF EURASIAАшело-ябрудийский культурный комплекс в Леванте и вопросы генезиса среднего палеолита АлтаяAcheulo-Yabrudian Cultural Complex in the Levant and Questions of the Altai Middle Paleolithic Genesishttps://orcid.org/0000-0001-5082-3345КозликинМ. Б.KozlikinM. B.

Максим Борисович Козликин, кандидат исторических наук Scopus Author ID 56676283600 WoS Researcher ID T-7337-2017 RSCI Author ID 668112

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Maxim B. Kozlikin, Candidate of Sciences (History) Scopus Author ID 56676283600 WoS Researcher ID T-7337-2017 RSCI Author ID 668112

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kmb777@yandex.ruhttps://orcid.org/0000-0003-1388-2308ШуньковМ. В.ShunkovM. V.

Михаил Васильевич Шуньков, доктор исторических наук, член-корреспондент РАН Scopus Author ID 18042631700 WoS Researcher ID Q-6576-2016 RSCI Author ID 73172

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Mikhail V. Shunkov, Doctor of Sciences (History), Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences Scopus Author ID 18042631700 WoS Researcher ID Q-6576-2016 RSCI Author ID 73172

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shunkov77@gmail.comИнститут археологии и этнографии Сибирского отделения Российской академии наукРоссияInstitute of Archaeology and Ethnography of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of SciencesRussian Federation2024090920242374354Copyright © Козликин М.Б., Шуньков М.В., 20242024Козликин М.Б., Шуньков М.В.Kozlikin M.B., Shunkov M.V.This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.https://nguhist.elpub.ru/jour/article/view/2141

Представлен обзор современных работ, посвященных материалам ашело-ябрудийского культурного комплекса второй половины среднего плейстоцена на территории Леванта. Целью исследования является поиск свидетельств возможной связи с ближневосточным регионом в процессе становления среднего палеолита Алтая. Необходимость актуализации тезиса о близком сходстве древнейшей каменной индустрии из Денисовой пещеры с комплексами позднего ашеля на Ближнем Востоке возникла с расширением источниковой базы на новом этапе исследований. В качестве основных материалов рассматриваются ашело-ябрудийские индустрии из многослойных пещер Кесем, Табун и Мислия в Израиле, для которых получено надежное геохронологическое и палеогеографическое обоснование. Сопоставление древнейших материалов из Денисовой пещеры с ближневосточными находками выявило наличие общих черт как на уровне технологии, так и в типологии.

Purpose. At the present stage of research, with the expansion of the source base, it became necessary to update the previously put forward thesis about the close similarity of the most ancient lithic industry from the Denisova Cave with the materials of the Acheulo-Yabrudian Cultural Complex in the Levant.Results. To identify possible cultural connections of the initial stage of the Middle Paleolithic of Altai Mountain with Near Eastern industries, we carried out a review of studies mainly of the last decade, devoted to materials from the Acheulo-Yabrudian complex of the second half of the Middle Pleistocene in the Levant. Acheulo-Yabrudian industries from the multi-layered caves of Qesem, Tabun and Misliya in Israel are considered as the main materials, for which a reliable geochronological and paleogeographical basis has been obtained. Comparative materials from the Denisova Cave became a representative archaeological collection from deposits of the second half of the Middle Pleistocene, the analysis of which made it possible to re-evaluate the technical and typological traditions of the Altai population at the beginning of the Middle Paleolithic.Conclusion. A comparison of ancient materials from the Denisova Cave with Near Eastern finds revealed the presence of common features, both at the level of technology and in typology. These include a stable tradition of re-utilization of flakes, techniques of ventral thinning and proximal truncation of flakes, parallel technology to obtain elongated blanks, and typologically expressive series of side scrapers such as Quina and demi-Quina.

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