M6

Map of distribution of early chronological group of Upper Palaeolithic (36000-27000 years B.P.) sites on the former USSR territory having palaeobotanical or palynological data.
Legend. I - cave sites, II - open sites.
Pollen analyses: 1. Korolevo I; 2-3. Molodova I and Molodova V; 4. Korman IV; 5. Suren; 6. Kostenki 1; 7. Kostenki 12; 8. Kostenki 14; 9. Kostenki 17; 10. Sungir; 11. Birutshia Balka; 12. Ortvala; 13. Apiancha; 14. Mezmaiskaya; 15. Denisova; 16-17. Ust-Karakol I and Ust-Karakol II; 18. Maloyamanskaya; 19. Kara-Bom; 20. Malaya Syia.
Other analyses: wood (sites 2-4); epidermises (sites 2-4, 15); palynoteratic statistic studies (sites 6-8, 14, 15); SEM-studies (sites 15, 16)