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flakes resembling those from the Yenisei site (No. 217). The fauna, 

 which was not rich, induded horse and possibly deer. 



219. Tomsk. — A temporary hunting site of the Upper Paleolithic 

 period was discovered and investigated by N. F. Kashchenko in 1896 

 on the right bank of the Tom River in Tomsk. He found a skeleton 

 of a young mammoth and traces of campfires and flint flakes 3.5 m. 

 deep in the loesslike clay. 



220. Fominskoe. — Traces of this site were found in 191 1 by M. D. 

 Kopytov on the right bank of the Ob River near this village in the 

 vicinity of Biisk. Later finds were deposited in the Biisk Museum. 

 The cultural remains, consisting of rather crudely fashioned points 

 and massive flakes of quartzite similar to those found in Srostki, 

 originated in the lowest terrace only 5.0 m. above river level. 



221. Aieshka. — Flakes and a scraper of Paleolithic type as well as 

 teeth and fragments of animal bones were found by G. Merhart in 

 1920 south of this village in the Novoselovo Raion on the slope of the 

 first terrace above the Yenisei River. 



222. Anash (Krasnoiarsk Krai). — Several crude stone tools, re- 

 touched flakes, and fragmentary bones of mammoth and deer were 

 collected on the surface of the reddish-brown clay in the sandy ravine. 

 These finds were made by G. P. Sosnovskii and M. P. Griaznov in 

 1923 near this village in the Krasnoiarsk region on the right bank of 

 the Yenisei, 170 kilometers farther downstream than Minusinsk, 



223. Ajontoz'a Gora I. — This Magdalenian site, at the foot of 

 Afontova Mountain on the left bank of the Yenisei near Krasnoiarsk, 

 stands on the slope behind the railroad station. During the prepara- 

 tions for the construction of two brick barns, L T. Savenkov in 1894 

 found in the loess clay crushed bones of fossil animals including 

 northern deer, mammoth. Bos, horse, and dog, stone and bone tools, 

 and tusks of mammoths. 



224. Afontova II. — This Paleolithic site near Krasnoiarsk, below 

 the former lUdin Estate, was discovered during 1912. Systematic 

 excavations were conducted by N. K. Auerbakh, V. I. Gromov, and 

 G. P. Sosnovskii during 1923- 1925. The cultural strata lay in the 

 deposits of the 15- to i6-m. terrace of the Yenisei. The upper level 

 lay in the sandy loess at a depth of 1.0-3.5 ""••' ^^^ lower stratum in 

 the loessy clay and sandy soil 12.0 m. beneath the surface. Remains 

 of dugouts were found in the lower horizon. The fauna consisted 

 mainly of northern deer, Arctic fox, hare, mammoth, and dog. There 

 were neither mammoth nor Arctic fox remains in the upper level. 

 Together with the numerous stone tools were found bone implements 



