Палеоліт у дослідженнях Д. Я. Телегіна

• Published in: Археологія і давня історія України
• Date: 2020
• Main Author: Степанчук, В.М.
• Format: Article
• Language: Ukrainian
• Published: Інститут археології НАН України 2020
• Subjects: Науковий спадок Д. Я. Телегіна
• Online Access: https://nasplib.isofts.kiev.ua/handle/123456789/187370
• Journal Title: Digital Library of Periodicals of National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine
• Cite this: Палеоліт у дослідженнях Д. Я. Телегіна / В.М. Степанчук // Археологія і давня історія України: Зб. наук. пр. — К.: ІА НАН України, 2020. — Вип. 4 (37). — С. 24-31. — Бібліогр.: 29 назв. — укр.

Статтю присвячено висвітленню маловідомого
 аспекту наукової діяльності Д. Я. Телегіна, а саме
 його дослідженням, пов’язаним з палеолітичними
 пам’ятками і палеолітичною проблематикою.
 Хоча цей напрямок вочевидь не був головним в колі
 інтересів вченого, але, тим не менш, цікавість до
 палеоліту супроводжувала його протягом усього
 наукового життя. The article is devoted to the coverage of a littleknown
 aspect of D. Ya. Telehin’s scientific activity,
 namely his research related to Palaeolithic sites and
 Palaeolithic issues. Although this was clearly not the
 main area of the scientist’s concern, his interest for
 Palaeolithic studies has accompanied him throughout
 his scientific life.
 In the early 1950s, D. Ya. Telehin participated in the
 works of I. F. Levytskyi at the site Mynivskyi Yar at
 Seversky Donets, in eastern Ukraine. The lower layer
 of the site belongs to the period 18—13 thousand years
 ago. In fact, at the time of excavations, it was the only
 Upper Palaeolithic site in the region that was investigated
 on a relatively large area.
 In the mid-twentieth century, a cascade of new hydroelectric
 power plants and reservoirs was being built
 on the Dnieper. During the field seasons of 1953 and
 1957, D. Ya. Telehin’s explorations in the area of construction
 of the Kakhovskaya hydroelectric power plant
 and the Kakhovskoye reservoir discovered, in addition
 to numerous sites from later periods, the first upper
 Palaeolithic locations of the Lower Dnieper, namely:
 Shyroka, Valivalska and Merzlyakova gullies.
 In 1975 together with N. I. Tarasenko, D. Ya. Telegin
 conducts excavations at the Rogalyk farm. According
 to modern interpretation, the remains of three new
 stratified sites were discovered during these works.
 The authors have identified the materials as early Mesolithic;
 they are now attributed to the final Palaeolithic.
 In 1976 D. Ya. Telehin researches the Upper Palaeolithic
 site of Zbranky near the eponymous village in
 the Ovruch loess area. The materials found once again,
 after the works of I. F. Levytskyi and V. A. Mesyats,
 confirmed that this region was actively exploited by the
 Palaeolithic man at the end of the Pleistocene.
 A number of new, mostly surface, Upper Palaeolithic
 sites were discovered by the «Dnieper-Donbas»
 and «Slavutych» expeditions led by D. Ya. Telehin in
 1970—74 and 1980—83 on the territory of the Middle
 Dnieper Basin (Chernyavshchyna, Pereschepyno,
 Khizhnyakivka, etc.) and the middle reaches of Southern
 Buh (Apolyanka, Berezyno).
 During the 1980s, D. Ya. Telehin investigated the
 area of the left bank of the Dnieper River near the
 mouth of the Sula River. This work resulted in the
 discovery of a new concentration of Upper Palaeolithic
 sites. The features of lithic assemblages make it possible
 to identify groups of later and earlier sites in the
 preliminary view, including the so-called archaic Upper
 Palaeolithic.
 In 1984, D. Ya. Telehin investigated the location of
 Semenivka 1 in Baryshevsky district of Kiev region
 in the valley of Trubizh river. The peculiarities of the
 stone tools allowed to see the nearest analogies to the
 findings in the materials of the sites of Epigravettian
 mammoth hunters. Studies at Semenivka 1 gave an
 impulse for further searches in this area.
 The brief overview offered shows that although Palaeolithic
 studies were not in the focus of D. Ya. Telehin’s
 attention, his works are nevertheless deservedly
 included in the general fund for achievements in domestic
 Palaeolithic studies.