부산대학교 도서관

Cave site in Russia, on the western slopes of the southern Ural Mountains, in the Belaya Valley c. 200 km south of Ufa, Bashkirskaya. It is important for its cave art of the Late Upper Palaeolithic period (c. 20,000–c. 10,000 bp; see also Prehistoric Europe, §II). Two kilometres of passages have been investigated since paintings were first discovered in 1959 by A. V. Ryumin, who with O. N. Bader conducted the first research and analysis. Work resumed in 1982, when V. Shchelinsky began to make new plans and drawings of the paintings and to examine the archaeological evidence. This produced not only the standard regional stone-tool assemblage but also some oddities, such as a partly burnt clay cup (perhaps used as a lamp or to contain paint) and pierced green serpentine beads. A lump of limestone painted with a mammoth had been dislodged into the cultural layer, which has yielded radiocarbon dates of 14,680±150 ...