Kara-Bom
Archaeological site in Russia
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Kara-Bom is an Initial Upper Paleolithic archaeological site dating to 46,620 +/-1,750 cal years before present (BP), and located in Southern Siberia. It is among the earliest (probable) modern human sites for Siberia, together with Kara-Tenesh, Kandabaevo, and Podzvonskaya.[2]
Blades from Kara-Bom.[1] | |
.png)  Kara-Bom Location in Continental Asia  Kara-Bom Kara-Bom (Russia) | |
| Coordinates | 50.5°N 85.980127°E |
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| History | |
| Founded | 46,620 +/-1,750 BP cal |
| Periods | Upper Paleolithic |
The site of Kara-Bom has lithic assemblages consisting in classic and elongated Levallois points. The site would represent a key station in the expansion of modern humans associated with the IUP wave out of Southwest Asia slightly before 47 ka cal BP, one of the next stations being Ust-Ishim. They ended in Bacho Kiro cave and Oase, but this wave of colonization did not go as far as Western Europe, and apparently was not successful.[3]
Unambiguous modern human sites in Siberia and Eastern Asia where modern human remains were found, start with Ust-Ishim (45,000 years BP) or Tianyuan (c. 40,000 BP), followed by significantly later sites such as Yana RHS (c. 32,000 BP).
