LOWER CULTURAL HORIZON OF STONE AGE MONUMENT EKIBASTUZ-4

Abstract

The article describes the monument of the Stone Age Ekibastuz-4, it provides stratigraphic and geomorphological data, describes the collection of artifacts from the qualitative quartzite of the Eocene, obtained in the cleaning of 1988 from the lower cultural horizon. There is given a characteristic of specific type of the industry for which the following is peculiar: in primary splitting – combination of lower middle paleolithic techniques of flakes cleaving and the upper paleolithic methods of plates removal, in secondary splitting – a Tayac component, widespread development of technology of sectioning of blanks and combinatorial set of working parts (elements) of tools, a series of specific insert tools from flake and also large and rough chopping tools. Arguments are made in favor of the geological age of the industry as late Kargin – early Sartana.