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of the Baisun-tau Mountains at 1,500 ni., lies iS kilometers ir.»ni 

 Baisun in the Tiirgan-Darya N'alley of southern Uzbekistan. Here 

 were discovered five Mousterian strata. The flint inventory ccjnsisted 

 of discoidal nuclei, typical triangular flakes, crude chopping tools, 

 scrapers, and small bone anvils.^*' The fauna included Capra sibirica 

 and. less often, horse, boar, leopard, marmot, and a rodent {pish- 

 chiihha). The skeleton of a Neandcrthaloid child ^* was found here 

 by A. P. Okladnikov during 1938. This represents the first Paleo- 

 lithic site discovered in Central Asia. 



UPPER PALEOLITHIC AXD EPIPALKOLITHIC SITES 

 European Part of the R.S.F.S.R.'* 



57. Anosovka. — An Upper Paleolithic site was located near Kos- 

 tcnki in the Gremiachenskii Raion of the \'oronezh Oblast. Finds 

 were made by the Kostcnki expedition during 1036. The cultural 

 stratum is stained deeply by red ochcr. The animal bones include 

 many fragments of antlers. 



58. BorsJicvo I (Kuznetsov Log). — Located f)n the nortliern 

 border of this village in the Gremiachenskii Raion of the X'oronezh 

 Oblast on tiic bank of the Don, the cultural remains and bones of 

 animals, mostly mammoth, lay not very deep in the diluvial deposit 

 along the slope of the gully. The flint inventory is characterized by 

 flint points with lateral flakes removed, which date this site in cither 

 the Aurignacian or Solutrean period. Discovered by A. A. Spitsyn 

 during 1905, it was investigated by S. X. Zamiatnin in 1922 aufl by 

 P. P. Efimenko in 1923 and 1925. 



59. Borshcvo II. — The lower and middle horizons (jf this site lie 

 on the right bank of the Don near Borshevo, Gremiachcn.skii Raion 

 of the Voronezh Oblast. These two horizons, containing mammoth 

 bones (especially numerous in the lower horizon), belong to the 



" See footnote 9. 



>^ On June 16, 1945, in tlic Anthropological laboratory of the University of 

 Moscow I had the privilege of cxamininR the reconstructed Tcshik-Tash skull, 

 which will lie published during 104S l>y Hunak and Okladnikov. I'or photo- 

 graphs of this skull anrl rcconstrurtinns by W. M. Gcrasimov. see Henry Field. 

 Illustrations of the Tcshik-Tash Skull. Amer. Jmirn. Phys. Anthrop., vol. 4, 

 No. I. pp. 121-123, 1946. 



*•'' In the European part of tlie R.S.F.S.R. will be descrilnrd the following 

 stations: the Don (Nos. 57-70), the Oka (Nos. 7i-79^. the basin of the Desna 

 (Nos. 80-85"). the Scim (No. 86), the Upper Dnieper (No. 87). the Upper Volga 

 (No. 88). the Middle Volga (Nos. 89-94). the basin of the Kama ("No. 95). 

 the southern I'rals (Nos. 96-99), and the Sea of .Xzov coast (No. 100). 



