@article{d135e3adad874ef088b360cce0538092,
title = "Early upper paleolithic stone tool technologies of northern mongolia: The case of tolbor-4 and tolbor-15",
abstract = "Based on regularly retouched tools recovered from the Early Upper Paleolithic Tolbor-4 and Tolbor-15 sites in the Khangai Mountains of northern Mongolia, we reconstruct the development of cores from large bidirectional forms for the production of elongated blades to flat unidirectional and orthogonal nuclei. Blanks also became progressively smaller, while the toolkit remained virtually unchanged. Two detectable principal technological trends include the growing proportion of tools made on flakes and the decreasing size of tools. Our analysis of lithics from these two Mongolian sites suggests cultural continuity from the initial to the final stage of the Early Upper Paleolithic.",
keywords = "Early Upper Paleolithic, Mongolia, lithic industries, lithic technology, southern Siberia, toolkit",
author = "Derevianko, {A. P.} and Rybin, {E. P.} and Gladyshev, {S. A.} and B. Gunchinsuren and Tsybankov, {A. A.} and Olsen, {J. W.}",
note = "Funding Information: Development of Stone Age Cultures in Western Central Asia”; and Project No. 13-06-12002 ɨɮɢ-ɦ, “Paleoenvironmental and Cultural Contexts of the Human Occupation of the Altai in the Pleistocene”), and by the University of Arizona Je Tsongkhapa Endowment for Central and Inner Asian Archaeology. Funding Information: *This study was supported by the Russian Foundation for Basic Research (Project No. 12-06-00037ɚ, “Technological Characteristics of Upper Paleolithic Industries in Mongolia”; Project No. 12-06-33041 ɦɨɥ_ɚ_ɜɟɞ, “Innovations and Conservatism during Stone Age Transitional Periods in Central and Northern Asia”; Project No. 13-06-1203 ɨɮɢ-ɦ, “Paleoecology and Chronology of Crucial Periods in",
year = "2013",
month = dec,
doi = "10.1016/j.aeae.2014.07.004",
language = "English (US)",
volume = "41",
pages = "21--37",
journal = "Archaeology, Ethnology and Anthropology of Eurasia",
issn = "1563-0110",
publisher = "Elsevier",
number = "4",
}