The Initial Upper Paleolithic in Central and East Asia: Blade Technology, Cultural Transmission, and Implications for Human Dispersals

Table 3 Procedural units from the three sites presented compared with examples of UP, MP and MSA assemblages (data from Perreault et al. 2013)

Site	Assemblage	Age	Period	PU conservative	PU nonconservative
Üçağızlı	Layers B, B1–3, C	35–32 ka	UP	9	15
Kara-Bom	OH5–OH6	47–45 ka	UP	13	20
Kamenka	A–C	ca. 45 ka	UP	13	20
Tolbor-16	AH6	45 ka	UP	15	21
Amud	Layer B4–B1	68–55 ka	MP	11	23
Klasies RM	Howeison Poort stage	62–58 ka	MSA	9	22
Qafzeh	layer XXIV-III	ca. 92 ka	MP	10	19
Klasies RM	Klasies stage	115–100 ka	MSA	9	19