Institute for the History of Material Culture RAS, 18 Dvortsovaya emb., St. Petersburg, 191186, Russia [sergevas@AV2791.spb.edu]

Abstract. The paper is devoted to the memory of two outstanding researchers of the geology of the Yenisei Paleolithic, S.M. Tseitlin and A.F. Yamskikh. Their approaches to the stratigraphy of Paleolithic sites are discussed as well as the concepts of ‘terrace stairs’ and ‘polycyclic terraces’. The results of long-term interdisciplinary studies of a group of multicomponent Late Paleolithic sites located near the Maina village at the Yenisei demonstrate possibilities of alternative interpretations. The approaches put forward by S.M. Tseitlin and A.F. Yamskikh (laying emphasis on either stratigraphy or paleogeography, respectively) could be considered as mutually additive and not mutually exclusive aspects of the study of prehistoric human paleoecology.

Keywords: Yenisei, West Sayan, Late Paleolithic, alluvium, terraces, Late Pleistocene, Sartan.

Received 27.06.2021, accepted 30.08.2021.

DOI: 10.31600/2658-3925-2021-2-8-19

For citation: Vasil’ev S. A. S. M. Tseitlin and A. F. Yamskikh: problems of geology of the Paleolithic of the Yenisei. Prehistoric Archaeology. Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies. 2021 (2), 8–19. (in Russ.). DOI: 10.31600/2658-3925-2021-2-8-19

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