Ust-Kan Caves

Japanese: ウスチ・カン洞窟 - うすちかんどうくつ
Ust-Kan Caves


[Middle Paleolithic Period]
In East Asia, the Middle Paleolithic culture has not been clearly recognized as in Europe. In Siberia, stone tools similar to the Mousterian culture have been found in Ust-Kan Cave at the foot of the Altai Mountains and Dovgulask in the Yenisei River basin, but their numbers are still small. In China, the Dingcun site in Shanxi Province is thought to be an archaeological site dating from 80,000 to 30,000 years ago, but this has not yet been confirmed.

*Some of the terms mentioned in relation to the Ust-Kan Cave are listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:


[中期旧石器時代]
 東アジアでは,中期旧石器時代文化がヨーロッパのように明確には認められていない。シベリアではアルタイ山麓のウスチ・カン洞窟やエニセイ川流域のドブグラスクなどからムスティエ文化に近い石器が発見されているがまだ数は少ない。中国では8万年前から3万年前までの遺跡として山西省の丁村遺跡が考えられているが,まだ確定的ではない。…

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