Long before modern humans were thought to have arrived in Eurasia, advanced stone tool technologies were already present in Central Asia. Recent discoveries in Uzbekistan and Tajikistan reveal that blade tools resembling those of the Initial Upper Palaeolithic (IUP) date back as far as 70 000 years, which is prior to what was expected. This raises a crucial question: did modern humans reach the region earlier than previously believed, or did Neanderthals or Denisovans develop similar techniques independently? Key responsibilities: participation in excavation and surface surveys at high-mountain cave sites; sorting of archaeological artefacts after flotation/sieving and selecting small bone material; cataloguing of the collected bone material; conducting taxonomic, morphometric, and taphonomic analyses of animal remains obtained during excavations; performing zooarchaeological analyses of animal remains and interpreting them in the context of human settlement; conducting paleoenvironmental reconstructions based on analysed animal remains.
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