Revisiting the Middle Paleolithic site of Dashsalakhly Cave (Azerbaijan, South Caucasus): Cave and Lithic Assemblage
Dashsalakhly Cave is a rare Middle Paleolithic cave site in Azerbaijan. Although the site was first excavated in 1958, its findings have not been evaluated from a modern perspective to understand their position within the Middle Paleolithic context in the South Caucasus. This paper presents a summar...
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| 出版年: | URI:https://journals.openedition.org/paleorient, |
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| 主要な著者: | , , , |
| フォーマット: | Article ou chapitre numérique |
| 言語: | Anglais |
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Paléorient
2026
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| オンライン･アクセス: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |
| 要約: | Dashsalakhly Cave is a rare Middle Paleolithic cave site in Azerbaijan. Although the site was first excavated in 1958, its findings have not been evaluated from a modern perspective to understand their position within the Middle Paleolithic context in the South Caucasus. This paper presents a summary of fieldwork conducted at this site 65 years later in 2023, reanalyzing the lithic artifacts excavated in 1958. The results confirm that this cave once contained a Middle Paleolithic industry producing elongated blanks using Levallois technology. Its techno-typological features suggest that the lithic industry aligns more closely with the Mousterian of the Zagros and Levant than with that of the Greater Caucasus. |
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