Big Blade Industries in the Upper Palaeolithic of the Middle Yenisei Basin. Technological Aspect Cover Image
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Индустрии крупных пластин в верхнем палеолите Среднего Енисея. Технологический аспект
Big Blade Industries in the Upper Palaeolithic of the Middle Yenisei Basin. Technological Aspect

Author(s): Vladimir M. Kharevich, Ivan Vladimirovich Stasiuk
Subject(s): History, Anthropology, Archaeology, Cultural history
Published by: Издательский дом Stratum, Университет «Высшая антропологическая школа»
Keywords: Middle Yenisei; Upper Palaeolithic; big blades; knapping technology; experimental knapping

Summary/Abstract: The paper presents the results of a comparative study of large blade production technologies in the Upper Palaeolithic industries of the Middle Yenisei, including Ust-Maltat II, Derbina IV and V, Malaya Siya (cultural layer 3) and Kokorevo I (cultural layer 4). The analysis of cores and blade blanks leads to a conclusion that in all these sites the production of large blades was accomplished by using the same knaping tehnology. This technological sameness appears to be a result of convergence, conditioned by the similarity of both the raw material and the desired product (big blades).

  • Issue Year: 2016
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 211-222
  • Page Count: 12
  • Language: Russian