Some results of research of Kochkary I site in 2018

In 2018, the research of the Kochkary I site were continued, and two excavations were carried out at the southern and eastern sides of the cutting made in 2017. The new excavations received the designations: Excavation 2 (the southern cutting) and Excavation 3 (the eastern one). The article is devoted to the presentation of the materials of the Mesolithic epoch revealed in Excavation 2 (507 units). The plates with retouch and without it make up about 37% of all the items, the 40 units of tools and cores were found. A radiocarbon date obtained from the bones of a large polar (tour or bison) is the middle of the 7th millennium BC; it marks the approximate time range of habitation of the Mesolithic population in the site.