Paleoecology of a Multilayered Early Paleolithic Site Bairaki in Transnistria
Journal: Izvestiya Rossiiskoi Akademii Nauk Seriya Geograficheskaya
Year: 2023

The discovery of the Bayraki site in Transnistria showed how far from the ancestral homeland—the African continent—and how early (more than a million years ago) the ancestors of fossil man appeared in this region—in the basin of the lower Dniester. Six layers of Early Paleolithic artifacts were found in the section of the parking lot, both in the alluvial and the cover complex of the VII terrace of the Dniester. In the structure of the upper loess-soil strata, three paleosols of the lower and Mi