THE EARLY TRYPILLIAN SETTLEMENT OF MOHYLNA V AND SOME ISSUES OF RESEARCH ON THE AENEOLITHIC FLINTKNAPPING Cover Image

РАННЬОТРИПІЛЬСЬКЕ ПОСЕЛЕННЯ МОГИЛЬНА V ТА ДЕЯКІ ПРОБЛЕМИ ВИВЧЕННЯ КРЕМ’ЯНОЇ ІНДУСТРІЇ ЕНЕОЛІТУ
THE EARLY TRYPILLIAN SETTLEMENT OF MOHYLNA V AND SOME ISSUES OF RESEARCH ON THE AENEOLITHIC FLINTKNAPPING

Author(s): Dmitry V. Kiosak
Subject(s): Archaeology, Cultural history, Regional Geography, Local History / Microhistory, Ancient World
Published by: Видавництво «Одеський національний університет І. І. Мечникова»
Keywords: Aeneolithic; Trypillia; flint-knapping logistics; reduction strategies;

Summary/Abstract: The paper presents new data on the long-debated issue of Early Trypillian flint-knapping industry interpretation. The data were obtained during the field-work of 2017-2018 in the site of Mohylna V that was discovered by O.S. Peresunchak in 1998. The settlement is situated in the Central Ukraine, some 200 km to the north of Odessa (Kirovohrad region, Haivoron district, Zhakchik village council), on the long, gently sloping promontory between the river Mohylianka and its unnamed tributary. It is located between two previously known sites of Mohylna III and Mohylna II discovered by M.S. Gasiuk in early 1950-ies and it is the fifth Early Trypillian settlement along the 4-km stretch of the Mohylianka river. Mohylna V yielded abundant surface collection including tens of chipped stone artefacts. The rests of the destroyed pit were investigated by a testtrench. There were many animal bones, burnt clay, potsherds, polished stone tool and large-buttocks female figurine in the pit. The lithic assemblage is microlithic with many regular bladelets and narrow blades made mostly of pebble flint coming from the Southern Buh northern tributaries. Projectiles are represented by the "rhomboid points". They were produced of blades and bladelets by two oblique abrupt retouch truncations. Similar items are known from Early Trypillian sites of Dniester valley and north Moldova. Rhomboid points are fossil directeurs for Early Trypillia-Precucuteni. Many large (up to several kg) flint pebbles were gathered on the site's surface by local inhabitant. They are evidently not brought to the site by natural forces, rather they are manuports. The pebbles resemble the raw material used on-site for flint-knapping but they are barely tested and are mostly intact. Thus, we can deal with practice of flint pebbles "hoarding" activity.

  • Issue Year: 2019
  • Issue No: 30
  • Page Range: 22-39
  • Page Count: 18
  • Language: Ukrainian