КОСТЯНОЕ КОМБИНИРОВАННОЕ ОРУДИЕ СО СТОЯНКИ ФИНАЛЬНОГО ПАЛЕОЛИТА ЧЕРНООЗЕРЬЕ II

Abstract

Any archaeological site collection has a group of materials that cannot be unambiguously evaluated from a typological and functional point of view. As a rule, such artefacts remain unpublished until the appearance of their counterparts. About a dozen of such bone artefacts of the late Paleolithic Cherno-Ozerye II site has been found in recent seasons. Some of them are typologically uncontemplated; the others are ambiguous in terms of their functional load. Their gradual presentation can become an occasion for a debate on typological diversity and features of utilisation of the final Pleistocene bone tools found in the south of Western Siberia. The article dwells on the presentation of a fragment of ChZ. II.21.127 artefact discovered during the 2021 archaeological excavation in subsection 3.1 of the Cherno-Ozerye II site. The found tool is made of a flat split bone of a carnivorous animal; it has a clear-cut one-sided blade and perforation in its edge area. The shape is distorted, but the surviving original areas show signs of severe wear. Their analysis, the description of the bone condition and the morphology of the preserved part of the object, the technological imprints, macro- and micro traces of utilisation, as well as the performed typological correlation, make it possible to state that the artefact represents a fragment of a combined tool with two morphologically conspicuous and functionally discrete zones, that was apparently created and used for treatment of untouched animal skins. The combined stone tools are not an uncommon finding, but the combined nature of bone artefacts is a rare subject of discussion. The present article is a version of comprehensive examination of one of such tools.