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S. N. Bibikov in 1927, it was investigated by G. A, Bonch-Osmo- 

 lovskii in 1927. The lower cultural stratum belongs to the Azilian, 

 the upper strata to the 'lardenoisian period. In the latter were dis- 

 covered the burials. The fauna, which was similar in all horizons, 

 included wild boar, deer, wild donkey, horse, saiga, wolf, fox, hare, 

 i)adger, cave lion, lynx, domesticated dog, and rodents. In the Tardc- 

 noisian levels maple and rowanberry were identified. 



183. Cliaiyr-Dagh. — Traces of i'aleolithic occupation were iound 

 in the cave of the Chatyr-Dagh, discovered by K. S. Mcrezhkovskii 

 in 1879 ajul investigated by him during 1879- 1880. In Bin-bash-Koba 

 cave in the stratum of red clay were found remnants of hearths, bone 

 breccia, and flint and bone implements. In Suuk-Koba cave in the 

 same kind of stratum at a depth of about 1.50 m. were discovered 

 traces of a hearth, crushed bones, and stone tools of Siurenian type. 



The caves of Chatyr-Dagh were investigated in 1930 by O. X. Bader, 

 who excavated about 3.0 m. of the cultural deposits. 



184. Cherkcc-Kcnncn. — Two Azilian caves were discoverctl near 

 t!iis village by K. S. Mcrezhkovskii in 1880. The finds included stone 

 and bone implements, and the bone of a dolphin. It is probable that 

 these caves are contemporaneous with Zamil-Koba I and II. 



185. Shan-Koha. — This Azilian-Tardcnoisian rock shelter, on the 

 right slope of Kubaral-dere ravine near Urkust in the Baidar Valley, 

 found by S. A. Trusov and S. N. Bibikov in 1927, was investigated 

 by G. A. Bonch-Osmolovskii during 1927-1928 and by Bibikov in 

 1935-1936. There were found altogether six cultural horizons, five 

 I'-pipaleolithic with traces of hearths, microlithic flints, bone com- 

 yiressors and needles, borers and points, implements with inserts, and 



. large quantity of shells of Helix vulgaris. The second and third 

 (.ultural strata belong to the Tardenoisian or Azilian transition period. 

 Tlie fauna included deer, horse, boar, beaver, hare, wolf, fox, lynx, 



log, etc. Represented in the flora were birch, mountain-ash, buck- 

 thorn, and juniper in the lower strata, and maple and buckthorn in the 

 upper levels. 



186. Shpan-Koha. — This Tardenoisian rock shelter near Tau- 

 Kipchak was discovered and investigated in 1925 by G. A. I'.onch- 

 Osmolovskii and by O. X. Bader a decade later. 



187. lUsuj-Koba /. — During 1936 E. \*. Zhirov discovered a 

 Tardenoisian rock shelter on the eastern slope of Cape Lang near 

 Biiuk-Muskomia in the Balaclava district. The cultural stratum 

 yielded crushed animal bones and an accumulation of the shells of 

 Ilclix vulgaris. 



188. L-'il'i. — Many Epipalenlitbic stations were found on the slopes 



