Abstract
Goals. The work aims to introduce new examples of artistic activity from the Upper Paleolithic era. The site of Sergeevka-1 is located on the shore of the Nugush Reservoir in Meleuzovsky District of Bashkortostan. Results. The collection of stone products numbers over five thousand finds radiocarbon dated to 18000 ± 340 years old. The to be described finds include as follows: two pebble sculptures, a figured flint, an ornamental suspension of steatite, and an ornamented pebble of silicified slate. All this makes it possible to assume the cult nature of these images. On the basis of ethnographic analogies, the paper attempts a semantic analysis of the sculptural images. For the Upper Paleolithic, one can assume that the use and veneration of natural forms with ornamentation of tools and decorations (from natural forms of stone and bone) were an important and specific way of symbolization within artistic activity in the Ural-Volga region.
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