К вопросу эволюционной преемственности индустрий от среднего к верхнему палеолиту на территории Горного Алтая (критика гипотезы автохтонного развития)
Towards the Question of Evolutionary Continuity of the Middle and Upper Palaeolithic Industries on the Territory of the Gorny Altai (a Criticism of the Autochthonous Development Hypothesis)

Summary/Abstract: The paper discusses the evolutionary continuity model as applied to the Middle to Upper Palaeolithic tradition in Altai. The main propositions of the model are criticized, and an alternative hypothesis, based on the analysis of archaeological materials and their stratigraphic contexts, is discussed. Using a complex of multidisciplinary data, the authors propose a development model which assigns the key role to the global climate fluctuations of the Upper Pleistocene. These fluctuations had a fundamental influence on hominin migrations and occasional “visits” to high “cold” latitudes of Central Asia. On the territory of Gorny Altai, several such episodes of residence of ancient human populations (H. denisovan, H. neanderthalensis and H. sapiens sapiens) have been recorded, which left different traces of life activity, mainly in the form of industries with different technical and typological features.

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