%0 Journal Article
%A Kot, Małgorzata
%A Pavlenok, Galina
%A Krajcarz, Maciej T.
%A Szymanek, Marcin
%A Fedorowicz, Stanisław
%A Moska, Piotr
%A Khudjanazarov, Mukhiddin
%A Szymczak, Karol
%A Leloch, Michał
%A Kogai, Sergey
%A Talamo, Sahra
%A Fewlass, Helen
%A Pavlenok, Konstantin
%+ Department of Human Evolution, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Max Planck Society
Department of Human Evolution, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Max Planck Society
%T Is there Initial Upper Palaeolithic in Western Tian Shan? Example of an open-air site Katta Sai 2 (Uzbekistan) : 
%G eng
%U https://hdl.handle.net/21.11116/0000-000A-080C-1
%R 10.1016/j.jaa.2021.101391
%D 2022
%* Review method: peer-reviewed
%X The paper presents the results of multidisciplinary studies on the open-air loess site Katta Sai 2 located in the<br>western piedmonts of Tian Shan in Uzbekistan. Two archaeological horizons contain features associated with the<br>Initial Upper Palaeolithic (IUP) - both Levallois and blade/bladelet volumetric technology, together with an<br>Upper Palaeolithic toolkit. The cultural traits observed in Katta Sai 2 might have local roots dating back to MIS 5a<br>and can be found in so-called Obirakhmatian technocomplex determined in several archaeological sites in the<br>region. Thus, the obtained results question the hypothesis of non-local origins of IUP complexes associated with<br>the early modern human migration from the Near East to Mongolia along the piedmonts of Pamir and Tian Shan.<br>Until reliable anthropological and genetic data are obtained, it seems to be too early to conclude about the<br>relationship between modern human migration and the appearance of IUP assemblages, at least across the<br>western parts of Central Asia.
%K Central Asia; 
Levallois technology; 
Initial Upper Palaeolithic; 
Geoarchaeology; 
Lithic industry
%J Journal of Anthropological Archaeology
%V 65
%] 101391
%@ 02784165