Toraigyrov University, 64 Lomova St., Pavlodar, 140008, Kazakhstan [v_merz@mail.ru]
Abstract. The article discusses the history and problems of studying the Mesolithic of Kazakhstan, the state of its study and the results achieved. The most informative Mesolithic complexes were obtained at the multilayered site of Shiderty 3. They formed the basis of the periodization and chronology of the Holocene complexes of Northern and Central Kazakhstan. Among them, a special place is occupied by the Late Mesolithic complex with pronounced specific features that make it possible to consider it within the framework of an independent culture, named after the place of the greatest concentration of its sites in the middle reaches of the Shiderty River. As a demonstration of the main elements of the Shiderty culture, a description of one of the complexes identified among the materials of the Borly settlement is given. Methodological differences in approaches to the study of Holocene complexes of researchers from Kazakhstan and Western Siberia, creating discrepancies and inconsistencies of cultural and historical constructions, are also considered.
Keywords: Mesolithic, Kazakhstan, Pavlodar Priirtyshye, Shiderty culture, microliths, trapezes.
Received 27.03.2023, accepted 16.05.2023
DOI: 10.31600/2658-3925-2023-1-102-119
For citation: Merz V. K. To the problem of studying the Mesolithic of Kazakhstan. Prehistoric Archaeology. Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies. 2023 (1), 102–119. (in Russ.). DOI: 10.31600/2658-3925-2023-1-102-119
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