Stratigraphy And Paleolithic Landscapes of the Beganchik Site at the Kama-Volga Confluence

Stratigraphy And Paleolithic Landscapes of the Beganchik Site at the Kama-Volga Confluence

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The Beganchik locality is a stratigraphic sequence of loessic deposits, pedogenic horizons and Paleolithic 7gm pravana occupations located at the Kama-Volga confluence.The sequence is exposed on a bluff formed on the west side of an erosional remnant between the Kuybyshev Reservoir and the former channel of the Aktay River.Although the site is known for its Terminal Paleolithic-Mesolithic occupations of the Pleistocene-Holocene transition, evidence of older occupations and remains of fauna has been identified.

Our research team identified evidence of human presence associated with a pedogenic horizon of MIS 3 age.Two AMS radiocarbon ages from a hearth produced ages around 47 000 years BP.Pollen and phytoliths from two soils horizons, including the one associated with the hearths indicate a steppe environment coincident with the formation of correlative soils keychron m4 elsewhere in the Russian Plain.