Institute for the History of Material Culture RAS

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ISSN 2658-3925
Pervobytnaia arkheologiia. Zhurnal mezhdistsiplinarnykh issledovanii
Prehistoric Archaeology. Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies
Institute for the History of Material Culture RAS

PAJIS

ISSN 2658-3925
Pervobytnaia arkheologiia. Zhurnal mezhdistsiplinarnykh issledovanii
Prehistoric Archaeology. Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies

Ivanov Ya. D., Lazareva M. N., Kurenkova E. I., Otcherednoy A. K. Korshevo group of sites in the Upper Desna basin: a reassessment of the cultural and chronological status of the stone industry

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Institute for the History of Material Culture RAS,18 Dvortsovaya emb., St. Petersburg,191181, Russia [yadivanov66@yandex.ru; a.otcherednoy@gmail.com]

Institute of Geography RAS,29 (bld. 4) Staromonetniy Lane,Moscow, 119017, Russia[lazarevamn@mail.ru; paleolith@yandex.ru]

 

Abstract. The multilayered sites of Korshevo I and Korshevo II, discovered and studied by L. M. Tarasov in the 1970s and 1980s, were considered unique for the region in that they contain both the Middle and Upper Paleolithic cultural layers within the same stratigraphic sequence. However, a reanalysis of the collections of Paleolithic cultural layers II and III of these sites, based first of all on the technological analysis of debitage products and focused on knapping technology, leads to the conclusion that what formerly was thought to be Middle Paleolithic inventories should rather be identified as Upper Paleolithic (Gravettian) industries aimed at the production of large and middle-sized blades.

 

Keywords: Korshevo sites, Desna basin, Eastern Gravettian, technological analysis.

 

Received 02.11.2025, accepted 26.11.2025

DOI: 10.31600/2658-3925-2025-2-5-32

For citation: Ivanov Ya. D., Lazareva M. N., Kurenkova E. I., Otcherednoy A. K. Korshevo group of sites in the Upper Desna basin: a reassessment of the cultural and chronological status of the stone industry (in Russ.). Prehistoric Archaeology. Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies. 2025 (2), 5–32. DOI: 10.31600/2658-3925-2025-2-5-32

 

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