34 SMITHSONIAN MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTIONS VOL. IIO 



78. lAsakovo. — A quantity of Quaternary animal bones were 

 found near Troitsa-Pelenitsa on the ancient terrace on the right bank 

 of the Oka River at lAsakovo Station on the Moscow-Kazan Rail- 

 road. Discovered by P. P. Efimenko in 1922, this station was in- 

 vestigated in 1934 by P. I. Boriskovskii, who also found here in an 

 untouched stratum several worked flints of Upper Paleolithic type. 



79. lAsnikolskoe. — Bones of Cervus megaceros, horse, and some 

 other animals were found near the efflux of the small riven Aksen, a 

 tributary of the Mostia, on the watershed between the Oka and the 

 Don. The bones were in the alluvial clay beneath a stratum of peat. 

 The so-called flint and bone implements are of doubtful human 

 manufacture. 



80. Timonovka. — On the right bank of the Desna River near 

 Briansk this Magdalenian site is situated on the side of the ravine 

 which slopes down to the Desna. The finds consist of many flint and 

 bone implements. The fauna is represented by the mammoth, northern 

 deer, Arctic fox, etc. This site was excavated by M. V. Voevodskii in 

 1926 and by V. A. Gorodtsov from 1928 to 1933. The latter found 

 the remains of houses. 



81. Suponevo. — This former Magdalenian station stands on the 

 right bank of the Desna, 4 kilometers south of Briansk. Situated on 

 the second terrace above flood plain one can find traces of some kind 

 of constructions and an accumulation of mammoth bones. The fauna 

 included mammoth, rhinoceros, northern deer, bison, horse, Arctic 

 fox, etc. Suponevo was investigated during 1926- 1928 by P. P. 

 Efimenko, B. S. Zhukov, and others. 



82. Eliseevichi. — On the right bank of the Sudost River, a right 

 tributary of the Desna near this village in the Pochep Raion, a Lower 

 Magdalenian station was located. The cultural remains lay in the loess, 

 covering the second terrace of the Sudost River. They consist of 

 dwellings, an accumulation of mammoth skulls and tusks, tablets 

 covered with carvings, and a female figurine of ivory. The fauna 

 consisted almost exclusively of mammoth. The excavations were 

 conducted by K. M. Polikarpovich in 1930, 1935, and 1936. 



83. Kurovo. — On the right bank of the Sudost River stands this 

 Upper Paleolithic station which was excavated by K, M. Polikarpo- 

 vich in 1930. The fauna included mammoth, rhinoceros, horse, etc. 



84. Novye Bobovichi. — In 1927 traces of an Upper Paleolithic 

 station with worked flints and an accumulation of mammoth bones 

 was found on the right bank of the Iput River, left tributary of the 

 Sozh in the vicinity of Novozybkov. 



85. lUdinovo. — This Upper Paleolithic site stands on the right 



