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Entrance of the Sel’-Ungur Cave (Kyrgyzstan). The yellow total station tripod in the entrance - so small that almost not visible in the photo - provide the scale for this huge cave.
A view from the Sel'Ungur Cave on the Aidarken basin. Concrete buildings in front of the cave are the remnants of a Soviet-times mercury ore processing facility infrastructure.
Unstable density stratification structures in Sel'-Ungur Cave, at the boundary of Pleistocene and Holocene series.
Excavations at Obishir-5 rock shelter (Kyrgyzstan) in 2016. The tent gives some protection against burning Kyrgyz sun.
Cross-section of sediments in front of the Obishir-5 rock shelter. A part to the right, with boulders, is a backfill of old archaeological pit left by Soviet excavator, U. Islamov.
Discussion on stratigraphy between Maciej Krajcarz and Svetlana Shnaider at Obishir-5.
Obishir-1 rock shelter as seen in 2016. Metal pipes are remnants of water-drainage system of the Aidarken mercury mine.
Obishir-1 rock shelter, with a huge pit left after U. Islamov's excavation in 1960s-70s.
Sel'-Ungur Cave with a view to Alay Mountains far to the south. Cave's assimilarity is a function of inclined bedding of the bedrock, as well as lithological diversity within the bedrock
Maciej Krajcarz is sampling sediments in zone 8 of the Sel'-Ungur Cave.
Closer view on the colluvial sediments in Sel'-Ungur Cave. Alternated strata of washed-in clay (laminated) and loamy mud flows with Mid-Pal artifacts (stony) are visible.
Studying the stratigraphy at Obishir-1 was not an easy task. At the begenning of 2017 excavation season we found a smelly corpse of a dog, thrown here by someone.
Survey in the Eshme Range near the Obishir rock shelters (Kyrgyzstan). Note beautiful example of terracettes - numerous tiny horizontal stripes on a slope, being a joined effect of soil creep and animal trampling.
Beautiful alternate lamination of ash and guano in Sel'Ungur Cave. A fault is possibly an effect of impact of heavy limestone blocks, which felt down due to an earthquake.