III. PALEOLITHIC SITES ^ 



INTRODUCTION 2 



The material " based on data available during 1938 has been 

 arranged chronologically from the Clactonian and Primitive Mousterian 

 to the Epipaleolithic, and is divided geographically * into the Euro- 



^ This excellent study was translated by Mrs. John F. Normano, The Asia 

 Institute, 7 East 70th St., New York City. The text was then edited and con- 

 densed. Diacritical marks were omitted. Eugene V. Prostov checked the spell- 

 ings and made some minor revisions in order to conform to our previously 

 published articles. Under each site the bibliographical references have been 

 omitted because the majority of these Russian publications are not available in 

 United States libraries. However, the entire text in Russian has been placed 

 on Microfilm No. 2414, pp. 1-38, in the American Documentation Institute, 

 1719 N St., NW., Washington 6, D. C, where a copy may be purchased. Since 

 this list must be considered as separate and usually unrelated items, the names of 

 the excavators have been retained. This volume was given to me by S. P. 

 Tolstov, Director, Ethnological Institute, Academy of Sciences of the U.S.S.R., 

 Moscow, while I was a guest of the Jubilee Sessions of the Academy in Moscow 

 and Leningrad during June-July, 1945. See Anthropology in the Soviet Union, 

 1945, Amer. Anthrop., vol. 48, No. 3, pp. 375-396, 1946; especially bibliography 

 in footnote 57. There are many references to these Paleolithic sites in our 

 published articles (see p. 66, footnotes i, 2). 



- Throughout the text the use of the metric system has been retained and all 

 heights are given as above sea level unless otherwise specified. The abbreviation 

 lAE has been used for the Institute of Anthropology and Ethnography, Academy 

 of Sciences of the U.S.S.R., Leningrad. Some technical descriptions have been 

 included from A. J. H. Goodwin, Method in Prehistory, the South African 

 Archaeological Society Handbook, No. i, Cape Town, 194S, and from M. C. 

 Burkitt, Prehistory, Cambridge University, 1925. (H. F.) 



2 From P. P. Efimenko and N. A. Beregovaia, Paleolithic Sitf s in the 

 U.S.S.R., Materialy i Issledovaniia po Arkheologii SSSR, No. 2, pp. 254-290, 

 Moscow and Leningrad, 1941. 



4 According to Prostov, for the convenience of readers having access to other 

 than Soviet maps, the names of various administrative subdivisions of the 

 U.S.S.R. have been given in the nonadjectival form of the name of the city 

 after which the subdivision was named. This is followed by the designation in 

 Russian for the type subdivision. This latter, for which there is no exact 

 English equivalent, is given in italics, as follows : 



Raion (Aiinak in Central Asia and Buriat Mongolia), a rural subdivision cor- 

 responding to a United States county. 



Okrug, a larger subdivision currently used for several special areas. 



Ohlast, a major administrative subdivision (province) of a republic. 



Krai, a major administrative subdivision in a sparsely populated border area 

 (territory) of the R.S.F.S.R. 



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