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ArticleNature communications2026

Absolute chronology of the Early Palaeolithic Karatau Culture in Central Asia.

Aske L Sørensen, Anton A Anoikin, Kseniya A Kolobova, Tura U Khudjageldiev, Petr M Sosin, Natalia Taratunina, Ekaterina P Kulakova, Olga Tokareva, Olga Meshcheryakova, Aljasil Chirakkal and 18 more

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Aske L SørensenDepartment of Geoscience, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark. als@geo.au.dk.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2847-1923
Anton A AnoikinIndividual researcher, Novosibirsk, Russia.
Kseniya A KolobovaAPSACA, Institute of Anthropology, Tashkent, Uzbekistan.
Tura U KhudjageldievInstitute of History, Archaeology and Ethnography, National Academy of Science of Tajikistan, Dushanbe, Tajikistan.
Petr M SosinInstitute of Water Problems, Hydropower and Ecology, National Academy of Science of Tajikistan, Dushanbe, Tajikistan.
Natalia TaratuninaDepartment of Physics, Technical University of Denmark, DTU Risø Campus, Roskilde, Denmark.
Ekaterina P KulakovaIndividual researcher, Moscow, Russia.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0827-8061
Olga TokarevaDepartment of Soil Sciences, Gorgan University of Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources, Gorgan, Iran.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9461-2168
Olga MeshcheryakovaSchool of Geography and Ocean Sciences, Nanjing University, Nanjing, China.
Aljasil ChirakkalDepartment of Archaeology, Conservation and History, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7732-9694
Amélie ChallierDepartment of Physics, Technical University of Denmark, DTU Risø Campus, Roskilde, Denmark.
Ramona SchneiderDepartment of Earth Sciences, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1577-7587
Asleddin KarayevInstitute of History, Archaeology and Ethnography, National Academy of Science of Tajikistan, Dushanbe, Tajikistan.
Islom AshurmadovInstitute of History, Archaeology and Ethnography, National Academy of Science of Tajikistan, Dushanbe, Tajikistan.
Abdullo SharipovInstitute of History, Archaeology and Ethnography, National Academy of Science of Tajikistan, Dushanbe, Tajikistan.
Vladimir PavlovInstitute of History, Archaeology and Ethnography, National Academy of Science of Tajikistan, Dushanbe, Tajikistan.
Andrei RybalkoIndividual researcher, Novosibirsk, Russia.
Farhad KhormaliDepartment of Earth Sciences, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas, USA.
Andrew S MurrayDepartment of Geoscience, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5559-1862
Gábor UjvariInstitute for Geological and Geochemical Research, HUN-REN Research Centre for Astronomy and Earth Sciences, Budapest, Hungary.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2816-6155
Jago J BirkDepartment of Geography, University of Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany.
Jesper OlsenDepartment of Physics, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4445-5520
Thomas M HansenDepartment of Geoscience, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark.
Redzhep N KurbanovIndividual researcher, Moscow, Russia.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6727-6202
Thomas StevensDepartment of Earth Sciences, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6662-6650
David K WrightDepartment of Archaeology, Conservation and History, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1704-0423
Jan-Pieter BuylaertDepartment of Physics, Technical University of Denmark, DTU Risø Campus, Roskilde, Denmark.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0587-8077
Mads F KnudsenDepartment of Geoscience, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark. mfk@geo.au.dk.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5039-1773

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NordForsk 105204Wellcome Trust 105204
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Central Asia represents a key region for our understanding of early human dispersal patterns, because it served as a migration corridor that linked the Levant and southern Caucasus with Northeast Asia. However, no Early Palaeolithic sites in Central Asia are anchored with reliable age constraints, including the thick loess-palaeosol sections in Tajikistan that recorded early human activities and environmental changes over multiple glacial-interglacial cycles. This lack of absolute age constraints is presently a key factor limiting our understanding of the early human occupation history of this region. Here, we provide a comprehensive description and an absolute chronological framework for the Early Palaeolithic Karatau Culture; defined by the rich lithic assemblages found in palaeosols in the Khovaling Loess Plateau, Tajikistan. Age constraints are provided through multi-method analysis of three loess-palaeosol sections in the Khovaling Loess Plateau, combining luminescence ages, cosmogenic

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ArchaeologyHuman MigrationAsia, CentralGeologic SedimentsHistory, AncientHumansTajikistan

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