Research in Central Kazakhstan

The expedition of the Tselinograd Regional Museum carried out work on Angrensor Lake in the Pavlodar region. Thanks to the outcrops of excellent quality jasper quartzite, the shores of the lake were inhabited for a long time in the Holocene. In addition to numerous finds scattered throughout the territory, a complex of sites and workshops has been recorded here.

The Angrensor 2 site is located on the edge of a dried-up channel at the latter's exit from a small hillock bordering the dry bottom of Angrensor Lake. Here, lifting material was collected and pitting was carried out. The distribution area of ​​the finds is 220*110 m. The discoveries lay on the surface and in the upper part (up to 20 cm deep) of the Holocene dark gray loam covering the sandy loam deposits of the slopes of the adjacent hills. They collected about 20 thousand items (Cores, notches and teeth, scrapers, incisors, side-scrapers). An expressive series of leaf-shaped double-faced dart heads is complemented by single arrowheads made using the same technique.

The Angrensor 1 site is similar to it, located 3 km higher along the same channel within the interhill hollow. The lifting material from this site has 6,000 copies. Among them are many ready-made tools and cores. On the slopes of the hills facing the bottom of the lake, production workshops with coarse material (pieces, fragments) stretch for 1 km.

Collection of lifting material continued at sites near the village of Vishnevka, Tselinograd Region. The sites provide archaic material (large polar and disc-shaped cores, bifaces, side-scrapers, scrapers, dart tips) dating back to the Upper Paleolithic.

Exploration work covered the Tselinograd, Karaganda and Pavlodar regions. Three Paleolithic sites have been discovered in the Kyzyltau mountains. Each contains several dozen items (cores, flakes and blades, side-scrapers). The finds were deposited on ancient plumes of alluvial fans and in bedrock. Five Neolithic sites are connected with the bottom of Karasor Lake, the spring and the older woman of the Akmirza River. The material of the site is insignificant.

Bronze Age burial grounds (Zvenigorodka and Balykty), consisting of 15 and 25 stone enclosures, were surveyed in the Ermentau district of the Tselinograd region, in the zone of the planned flooding of the Kedey river valley. The cemeteries' utensils are characteristic of the Fedorovo stage of the Andronovo culture.