Abstract

In this paper we consider the results of the use-wear analysis of the bone and antler implements received as a result of excavation of the Early Neolithic settlements on the territory of Dnepr-Dvina interfluve. This kind of research is conducted for this category of archaeological material for the first time. For the analysis we have selected 27 bone, antler and teeth items occurring from two settlements of the Serteysky microregion Serteya X and Rudnya Serteyskaya. The good preservation of items has allowed us to study macro- and microtraces connected with technology of processing of raw materials and receiving products, ways of usage of finished utilitarian and not utilitarian character items. The following categories of implements have been marked out: knives, awls, pendants, spear-heads, arrowheads, barbed points, preforms, fragments of items with processing traces. The obtained information is correlated to other materials of settlements ceramics, stone artifacts, economic and cultural characteristic of settlements in general. Ceramic traditions in upper courses of the Western Dvina belong to 7 millennium BC. The earliest ceramic traditions are combined in Serteyskaya archaeological culture. Later, in materials of the Early Neolithic sites influence of Early Neolithic cultures of East Baltics is traced. As a result, on the territory of Podvinya the Rudnyanskaya Early Neolithic culture is formed.

Highlights

  • Малютина Анна Андреевна, младший научный сотрудник экспериментально-трасологической лаборатории Институт истории материальной культуры РАН

  • Critical analysis is used to assess the possibilities of available materials to extract information

  • It is established that in the first half of the V millennium BC ceramics in the form of sets of vessels of different volumes and kinds becomes an integral part of the daily life of the hunters of the region

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Introduction

Малютина Анна Андреевна, младший научный сотрудник экспериментально-трасологической лаборатории Институт истории материальной культуры РАН Для анализа было отобрано 27 предметов из кости, рога и зубов, происходящих с двух памятников Сертейского микрорегиона – Сертея X и Рудня Сертейская. Наша статья посвящена результатам трасологического анализа изделий из кости, рога и зубов эпохи раннего неолита, выполненного для этого материала впервые.

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