Bone-bearing Locality Yasnoe-1 in the Early Upper Palaeolithic of Central Siberia

The paper presents the materials of an Early Upper Palaeolithic site discovered during archaeological exploration in the areas of new buildings in the northeastern outskirts of Krasnoyarsk in 2018. Сhronostratigraphic data allows us to attribute the site to the earliest stage of the Upper Palaeolithic in the Late Kargian interglacial stage (MIS 3, 34.000–27.000 BP). The taphonomic conditions of the culture-containing layer are similar to a wide range of synchronous sites of South and Middle Siberia. A number of spatial concentrations of archaeological materials identified within the studied area can probably be interpreted as spots where primary processing of bone and antler took place. Bone remains constitute more than 90% of archaeological finds. Tentatively, the site can be defined as a workshop for processing hard organic materials (bone and antler).