About the book: 1984 / The volume covers a huge amount of factual material on the ancient period in the history of our Motherland - the Old Stone Age. It spans hundreds of thousands of years, from the beginning of the Quaternary period to the beginning of geological modernity and is represented by thousands of diverse monuments of material culture and art. To date and interpret monuments, data from related sciences - geology, paleogeography, anthropology - are widely used, and absolute dating methods are used. Such a detailed, almost complete, generalization at the modern level of knowledge of materials on the Old Stone Age of the USSR, their interpretation and historical understanding is being undertaken for the first time. The work summarizes all previous research and determines the directions for the development of science.