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<article article-type="research-article" dtd-version="1.3" xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xml:lang="en"><front><journal-meta><journal-id journal-id-type="publisher-id">nsc</journal-id><journal-title-group><journal-title xml:lang="en">Archaeology, Ethnology &amp; Anthropology of Eurasia</journal-title><trans-title-group xml:lang="ru"><trans-title>Археология, этнография и антропология Евразии</trans-title></trans-title-group></journal-title-group><issn pub-type="ppub">1563-0110</issn><publisher><publisher-name>IAET SB RAS</publisher-name></publisher></journal-meta><article-meta><article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.17746/1563-0110.2023.51.3.109-115</article-id><article-id custom-type="elpub" pub-id-type="custom">nsc-1747</article-id><article-categories><subj-group subj-group-type="heading"><subject>Research Article</subject></subj-group><subj-group subj-group-type="section-heading" xml:lang="en"><subject>PALEOENVIRONMENT. THE STONE AGE</subject></subj-group><subj-group subj-group-type="section-heading" xml:lang="ru"><subject>ПАЛЕОЭКОЛОГИЯ. КАМЕННЫЙ ВЕК</subject></subj-group></article-categories><title-group><article-title>Khengerekte-Sukhotino-An Upper Paleolithic Culture in Transbaikalia</article-title><trans-title-group xml:lang="ru"><trans-title></trans-title></trans-title-group></title-group><contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="author" corresp="yes"><name-alternatives><name name-style="western" xml:lang="en"><surname>Tashak</surname><given-names>V. I.</given-names></name></name-alternatives><bio xml:lang="en"><p>Sakhyanovoy 6, Ulan-Ude, 670047</p></bio><email xlink:type="simple">tvi1960@mail.ru</email><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff-1"/></contrib></contrib-group><aff-alternatives id="aff-1"><aff xml:lang="en">Institute for Mongolian, Buddhist and Tibetan Studies, Siberian Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences<country>Russian Federation</country></aff></aff-alternatives><pub-date pub-type="collection"><year>2023</year></pub-date><pub-date pub-type="epub"><day>01</day><month>10</month><year>2023</year></pub-date><volume>51</volume><issue>3</issue><fpage>109</fpage><lpage>115</lpage><permissions><copyright-statement>Copyright &amp;#x00A9; Tashak V.I., 2023</copyright-statement><copyright-year>2023</copyright-year><copyright-holder xml:lang="ru">Tashak V.I.</copyright-holder><copyright-holder xml:lang="en">Tashak V.I.</copyright-holder><license license-type="creative-commons-attribution" xlink:href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/" xlink:type="simple"><license-p>This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.</license-p></license></permissions><self-uri xlink:href="https://journal.archaeology.nsc.ru/jour/article/view/1747">https://journal.archaeology.nsc.ru/jour/article/view/1747</self-uri><abstract><p>During the studies at the Barun-Alan-1 stratified site in Western Transbaikalia, a lithic industry was described, providing a basis for a new archaeological culture, termed Khengerekte. Similar materials were excavated from nearby sites such as Sloistaya Skala and Khenger-Tyn-3 Svyatilishche. A comparative analysis of the Khengerekte industry of Barun-Alan-1 and that from the Sukhotino-4 in southern Chita, Eastern Tranbaikalia, reveals that most of their typological groups are quite similar. On that basis, the culture’s distribution area was extended, and the culture itself was renamed Khengerekte-Sukhotino, spanning ~400 km from Barun-Alan-1 in the west to Unenker in the east. The calendar age of excavated layers of key Khengerekte-Sukhotino sites, Barun-Alan-1 and Sukhotino-4, was estimated at 12–33 ka BP. Their lithic industry, based mainly on microblades, is described. Bifaces, unifaces, and high side-scrapers are common. The origin of the Khengerekte-Sukhotino culture is an open question.</p></abstract><kwd-group xml:lang="en"><kwd>Upper Palaeolithic</kwd><kwd>archaeological culture</kwd><kwd>Western Transbaikalia</kwd><kwd>Eastern Transbaikalia</kwd><kwd>Barun- Alan-1</kwd><kwd>Sukhotino-4</kwd></kwd-group><funding-group xml:lang="en"><funding-statement>This study was supported by the Russian Science Foundation (Project No. 19-18-00198).</funding-statement></funding-group></article-meta></front><back><ref-list><title>References</title><ref id="cit1"><label>1</label><citation-alternatives><mixed-citation xml:lang="ru">Cherenshchikov O.Y. 1985 Kostyanoy inventar i predmety iskusstva iz mnogosloinogo poseleniya Sukhotino-4 (Vostochnoye Zabaikalye). In Problemy arkheologii Sibiri i Dalnego Vostoka: Tezisy dokl. k XXV arkheol. stud. konf., 3–6 apr. 1985 g. Irkutsk: Irkut. Gos. 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