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This project investigates the Initial Upper Palaeolithic period to determine the origins of lithic technology in Western Central Asia. It aims to clarify whether modern humans or other hominins created these tools, challenging existing theories on human migration.
The Initial Upper Palaeolithic (IUP) is a term describing lithic assemblages dated roughly to 50–40 kya in the Near East, Central Europe and North-Eastern Asia, which show traits of the emergence of blade technology, traditionally associated with the expansion of modern human groups.
Several sites with IUP traits have also been recently recognised in West Central Asia (Uzbekistan and Tajikistan), but astonishingly they date to a period between 77 and 43 kya (Obi-Rakhmat, Khudji, Katta Sai 2, Kho…
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