Exploration in central Kazakhstan

The detachment for the study of Stone Age monuments of the Central Kazakhstan Expedition of the Institute of History, Archeology, and Ethnography of the Academy of Sciences of the Kazakh SSR conducted reconnaissance in the territories of the Agadyr and Zhana-Arka districts of the Dzhezkazgan region. Approximately 30 Paleolithic and Neolithic sites have been identified. In the Ulken, Ak-Maya, Kishi Ak-Maya, Koishokty mountains and the terraces of the Temir River, Paleolithic sites were discovered. Cores, side-scrapers, tools with a notch, and flakes with a patinated surface were among stone products. A massive elongated biface was found at one of the sites. Judging by the manufacturing technique, it belongs to the Acheulian time. The primary raw material for the manufacture of tools is grayish quartzite.

The Kishi-Ak-Maya I site near the spring is the most expressive Neolithic monument. The area of ​​distribution of stone products does not exceed 300 square meters. Scrapers, microplates, tools with a notch, arrowheads, cores, production waste from siliceous rock were found.

No less attractive are the sites located on the terraces of the Temir River: Boksay I-III, Koishoky I-III, Temir I-V. The Boksay I monument is located on the left bank of the river, 150 m west of the Telekovka wintering area in the Agadyr region. The area of ​​distribution of finds is more than 400 sq. m. In the place of accumulation of stone products, a pit measuring 2X2 m was laid. At a depth of 0.4 m from the daylight surface, two cores and several flakes from jasper-like rock were found in it.