Zaikino Ashtray

Zaikino Pepelishche - archaeological site, site of the Middle Paleolithic era . It is located in the Dubovsky district of the Volgograd region near the farm Chelyuskinets , on the left bank of the upper Pichuzhinsky beam. It was first discovered by local historian S. G. Krasnobaev in 1987 . Archaeological excavations were carried out by an expedition led by L.V. Kuznetsova in 1988-1991 . on the right side of the ravine in a place known as Zaikino the Ashes ^[1] .

During excavations by archaeologists, it was discovered that the parking is two-layer. In the upper layer dating from the Neolithic era, two bonfires, animal bones, and fragments of ceramics were discovered. In the lower layer, which was attributed to the Middle Paleolithic, archaeologists found about 1000 bones of various animals and 551 objects made of stone. In addition to them, 88 tools were found in the layer, most of them made of flint — scraper, spiky pegs, and flakes. The depth of the lower layer was 1.5-2.6 meters ^[1] .

At the Zaikino Pepelishche site, a layered sandy-clay stratum, including a cultural layer, is dated by the thermoluminescent method as 130 ± 13.5 thousand years old, gray-brown clay from the cultural layer as 147 ± 20.5 thousand years old ^[2] .