Middle Paleolithic stone industry from the Darvagchai-Zaliv-4 site (South Eastern Dagestan): the new data

This article presents the archaeological data on the Final Middle Paleolithic complex which supplements the available materials of this cultural and chronological period on the territory of the Northeastern Caucasus. The Levallois flaking technique characterizes the lithic assemblage of from the Darvagchai-Zaliv-4 site. Technical and typological aspects of lithic industry suggest the specific nature of the Paleolithic in Coastal Dagestan. The research data on the advanced stage of the Middle Paleolithic make it possible to better understand the problem of emergence and development of the anatomically modern humans, and not only to reconstruct the cultural and historical process on this territory during the Pleistocene, but also to solve the problems of content and boundaries of the cultural and chronological stages of the Paleolithic in the Caucasus.