The final field research of Kharganyn Gol 5 the multilayer Paleolithic site in Northern Mongolia

The article presents the results of final field research at Kharganyn Gol 5 site, excavated in 2012, 2014-2015. The cultural chronological sequence of this site allows concluding that during 45,000-15,000 there were the industries, which were different from the studied complexes of Tolbor Basin archaeological area in the territory of Northern Mongolia. The complexes of that area are notable for steady repertoire of Initial Upper Paleolithic cultural attributes on basis of blade technology and her further evolution. The industry of horizon 7-6 from Kharganyn Gol 5 looks like a Middle Paleolithic bundled with Levallois technology and blade flaking, including the bidirectional system. This tendency continues in the archaeological horizon 5 and contains such Initial Upper Paleolithic markers as backed bladeletes, and Upper Paleolithic tool types have a more significant specific gravity in this assemblage. The complexes of horizons 7-6 and 5 demonstrate the Upper Paleolithic development on the autochthonous Middle Paleolithic basis. The meaningful assemblage presents the industry of horizon 4. The main direction of flaking is a reduction of flat-faced and subprismatic cores for flakes and bladeletes respectively. The blades were flaked as from the flat-faced single-platform cores with one flaking surface well as narrow-faces cores. Simple situational flaking presents in the form of the cubiform and centripetal cores. Tool assemblage of horizon 4 has a high variability. Tool kit and flaking technology of horizon 3 are associated with horizon 4 genetically, but contain the small products of developed microflaking.