Upper Paleolithic Sites of the Tunka Rift Valley (Southwestern Cis-Baikal Area, Siberia): A Short Review

Here we present a brief description of Paleolithic archaeological sites in Tunka rift valley in Baikal region, Siberia, Russia. Among ten sites of Paleolithic age currently known in the Tunka valley only 5 sites are stratified while all the others are represented by picking archaeological material. The most representative sections with rich archaeological complexes in the Tunka rift are the sections of the subaerial deposits of Tuyana and Bol’shoi Zangisan. The industry of Tuyana site contains products and technologies that can be identified as Aurignacoid.