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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>Microblade Production in the Sukhotino-4 Industry, Eastern 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"><contrib-id contrib-id-type="orcid">https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1891-9915</contrib-id><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>Tashak V.I., Leading Researcher</p><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 contrib-type="author" corresp="yes"><contrib-id contrib-id-type="orcid">https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8737-5280</contrib-id><name-alternatives><name name-style="western" xml:lang="en"><surname>Kovychev</surname><given-names>E. V.</given-names></name></name-alternatives><bio xml:lang="en"><p>Kovychev E.V., Associate Professor;  Leading Researcher </p><p>Aleksandro-Zavodskaya 30, Chita, 672039 </p><p>Pushkinskaya 89, Vladivostok, 690001 </p></bio><email xlink:type="simple">kovychevevgenyi@mail.ru</email><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff-2"/></contrib></contrib-group><aff xml:lang="en" id="aff-1"><institution>Institute for Mongolian, Buddhist and Tibetan Studies, Siberian Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences</institution><country>Russian Federation</country></aff><aff xml:lang="en" id="aff-2"><institution>Transbaikal State University ; Institute of History, Archaeology and Ethnography of the Peoples of the Far East, Far Eastern Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences</institution><country>Russian Federation</country></aff><pub-date pub-type="collection"><year>2025</year></pub-date><pub-date pub-type="epub"><day>03</day><month>04</month><year>2025</year></pub-date><volume>53</volume><issue>1</issue><fpage>25</fpage><lpage>33</lpage><permissions><copyright-statement>Copyright &amp;#x00A9; Tashak V.I., Kovychev E.V., 2025</copyright-statement><copyright-year>2025</copyright-year><copyright-holder xml:lang="ru">Tashak V.I., Kovychev E.V.</copyright-holder><copyright-holder xml:lang="en">Tashak V.I., Kovychev E.V.</copyright-holder><license xml:lang="ru" license-type="creative-commons-attribution" xlink:href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/" xlink:type="simple"><license-p>Данная работа распространяется под лицензией Creative Commons Attribution 4.0.</license-p></license><license xml:lang="en" 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/2096">https://journal.archaeology.nsc.ru/jour/article/view/2096</self-uri><abstract><p>We have analyzed microblade production at Sukhotino-4, a stratified site in the southern part of Chita, Eastern Transbaikalia, excavated in the 1970s and 1980s. Its lithic industry specialized in bifacial tools and, to a large extent, in microblades and tools made on them. The sample includes over 300 cores and their preforms intended for manufacturing microblades and found in eleven layers. On the basis of morphological and typological analyses, we reveal an absolute predominance of narrow-faced microcores, including wedge-shaped ones. Most microcores from all layers of Sukhotino-4 were made according to a standard scheme, which concerned all stages, from the choice of blanks to the use of the core. The analysis of metric parameters suggests that most microcores have a frontal height of 25–30 mm and a width of 9–11 mm. The predominance of a single standard in the preparation of blanks and in the utilization of cores allowed us to describe the Sukhotino type of narrow-faced microcores. Other types are represented by just a few specimens. Morphological and typological homogeneity of most microcores and bifacial tools from all layers, correlating with the Sartan glacial cooling, suggests that the Upper Paleolithic industry of Sukhotino-4 existed for a long time.</p></abstract><kwd-group xml:lang="en"><kwd>Upper Paleolithic</kwd><kwd>lithic industry</kwd><kwd>microblades</kwd><kwd>narrow-faced cores</kwd><kwd>Transbaikalia</kwd><kwd>Sartan cooling</kwd></kwd-group><funding-group><funding-statement xml:lang="en">The study was carried out under the R&amp;D project of the Institute for Mongolian, Buddhist and Tibetan Studies of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences (Project No. 121031000241-1).</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">Bronk Ramsey C. 2021 OxCal 4.4.4. URL: https://c14.arch.ox.ac.uk/. 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