RECENT DATA FROM PALEOLITHIC OF IRKUTSK - AKSENOV SITE
The paper deals with materials of new Upper Paleolithic site in Irkutsk named after M. P. Aksenov (1934-2002), the well-known archaeologist, researcher of the Stone Age in Eastern Siberia. Aksenov site was found in 2016 and is situated at the north of Irkutsk, in 3,5 km from Arembovskiy Paleolithic workshop. Cultural remaines were found in two positions but they came from one technocomplex (according to vast number of artifact application links). Lithic collection consists of 324 artifacts made of limestone almost completely. There were three strategies of primary knapping. The first core reduction was aimed at blade and flake blanks with exploitation of flat parallel uni- and bidirectional reduction system, the second - at flake using radial system and the third - at bladelet by edge-faced knapping. General types of tools are end-scrapers, knifes and retouched blades, other tool categories such side-scraper, notched piece, thorned piece and point are sporadic. Blade and flake blanks are used in producing of tools in equal degrees but bladelet tools are absent. Scaled invasive dorsal retouch was applied in majority of cases. Chronometric position of the complex is not clear today. Cultural layer could be interpreted as Karginskii sediment (on the basis of its structure and layout) but without absolute dating the age of it should be attribute in wide diapason of MIS 3 - MIS 2. The most similar techno-typological and raw materials characteristics are recognized in industry of Paleolithic workshop Arembovskiy that preliminary age is 35-25 thosands years ago. The close spatial location of these two sites and their raw materials and technological likeness afford ground for hypothesizing of existence in prehistorian times the«knapping workshop - site system». This supposition considers revising during future field and analytic researches.