Позднепалеолитическая стоянка Покровка II (Красноярское водохранилище): место находки скелетных остатков Homo sapiens

The article presents the results of the complex archaeological study of the Late Palaeolithic open-air site of Pokrovka II (the Derbina Bay, the Krasnoyarsk reservoir). For the time being Pokrovka II is the only site in East Siberia which yielded human bones dated to the end of the Kargin period (some 27 thousand years ago). In its typological composition the blade industry of Pokrovka II belongs to the group of the earliest sites from the Derbina Bay. Furthermore, it has many features in common with the Ust’-Karakol assemblage of South Siberia. The industry of this group of sites is characterized by big blades produced of single- and double-platform cores with one or two working surfaces. The toolset includes endscrapers, points, cutting and scraping tools on blades, chisel-like tools, perforators on flakes, and a bifacially worked object.