Excavations at the Bairaki Lower Paleolithic Site, Trans-Dniesteria, in 2011
Excavations at the Bairaki Lower Paleolithic Site, Trans-Dniesteria, in 2011
N.K. Anisyutkin, A.L. Chepalyga, S.I. Kovalenko, and A.K. Ocherednoi.
Early Paleolithic deposits of the left-bank high seventh fl uvial terrace of the Dniester were excavated at Bairaki, Trans-Dniestria. The assemblage is comprised of 28 artifacts including distinct fl akes, cores, and Lower Paleolithic tools. Based on the 2011 geological and archaeological study, tools from the riverbed alluvium, paralleled by those of the Middle Oldowan, date to the earliest Lower Pleistocene. Bairaki, then, should be classifi ed among the most ancient Paleolithic sites in Eastern Europe.
