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Upper Paleolithic culture in Siberia (13,000 and 12,200 years before the present), Kokorevo sites are marked by large blade industry; these sites are considered a regional variant of Diuktai and Afonotevo cultures. Named for the type site, which is in Siberia and contained evidence of butchery of a steppe buffalo (Bison priscus).
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• Dyukhtai Cave
• Afontova Culture
Archaeology of Russia
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Archaeology of the Upper Paleolithic in Europe and the PaleoIndian period in North America between 35,000 and 10,000 BP
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