Pebble Tools from the Terraces of Echkidag Mountain in the Crimea: The Geomorphological and Archaeological Context
Journal: Materials in Archaeology History and Ethnography of Tauria
Year: 2022

From the mid-1970s on, several findspots supplying archaic pebble tools were discovered in the southern coast of the Crimea. The main feature of all the sites is the absence of cultural layer. According to the dating of ancient sea terraces and the results of comparative typological method, the researchers have dated the said finds of pebble tools from the Oldowan and the Lower Acheulean Periods. The 2019 comprehensive archaeological and geomorphological researches in the southern slopes of Echk