Kazakhstan
Karatau mountain range
Paleolithic sites and geomorphology of Karatau mountain range is a mixed nomination. Part of it, the Karatau State Nature Reserve is already inscribed in “Western Tien-Shan” serial trans-national nomination. This TWHS extends further in a wider geographic area and includes a cultural criteria. The natural aspect features unique geological formation of a tectonic uplift to 1500 meters, with exclusive and extremely well-preserved fossils of the pleistocenic era. The cultural aspect features up to 300 paleolithic sites with stone tools assemblage (grey silex, black silex) and about 40 neolithic sites (Moustarian period).
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- Paleolithic sites and geomorphology of Karatau mountain range (ID: 1136)
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- Kazakhstan
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Removed from tentative list 1998
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