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Evidence for early human occupation at high altitudes in western Central Asia: the Alay site

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Shnaider,  Svetlana
Archaeology, Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, Max Planck Society;

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Taylor,  William Timothy Treal
Archaeology, Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, Max Planck Society;

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Shnaider, S., Taylor, W. T. T., Abdykanova, A., Kolobova, K., & Krivoshapkin, A. (2018). Evidence for early human occupation at high altitudes in western Central Asia: the Alay site. Antiquity, 92(363): e1. doi:10.15184/aqy.2018.94.


Cite as: https://hdl.handle.net/21.11116/0000-0001-9D01-D
Abstract
The Alay site represents the earliest, high-altitude human-occupation site currently known in western Central Asia. Recent recovery and analysis of a lithic assemblage from Alay underlines the importance of this site and its role in the cultural and technological development in later Eurasian prehistory.