Employees of the National Center of Archeology of the Academy of Sciences of Uzbekistan, under the leadership of Doctor of Historical Sciences, Professor Rustam Suleymanov, conducted archaeological research in Sherabad district of Surkhandarya region, where a Paleolithic monument was discovered on the territory of Mount Kohitang.

There are numerous narrow gorges in the interior of Mount Kohitang, in which many caves and grottoes have been formed as a result of geological processes. One of these grottoes was used by the ancestors of primitive man as seasonal shelter.

During the initial visual inspection, a lot of lifting materials were collected on the surface of the earth: cores and their fragments, flakes, blades, as well as stone tools. A pit was laid to clarify the layering of the cultural layers of the monument. As a result, it turned out that this monument consists of one cultural layer. The cultural layer is covered with ash and burnt remains of dark clay. A large number of stone products and bones of wild animals were also found in this layer. Stone products found in the gorge date back to the Middle Paleolithic period.

The technique of stone processing and stone products in the cultural sense exactly repeats the traditions of another monument of the Paleolithic “Teshik-Tosh”.

Employees of the National Center for Archeology of the Academy of Sciences are planning to continue research work on this ancient monument.

UzA