Manufacturing Relations of the Tripolye Settlement-Workshop Bodaki (based on the materials of the Cucuteni–Tripolye Bugo-Prut interfluve memory)

Abstract

The manufacturing relations of the Tripolye settlement-workshop Bodaki, which specialized in the production of macro-blades from the high-quality Volhynian flint are researched by the authors of the paper. Thanks to the result of an analysis of the archaeological context, a technical and morphological study of flint and stone artefacts, as well as data from the geological and mineralogical sciences, a circle of sites of the developed period of the Cucuteni-Tripolye culture in the Bugo-Prut interfluve, which consumed flint products from the settlement-workshop Bodaki, was outlined. This is indicated by the absence of traces of processing of the Volhynian flint in their materials, the absolute similarity of the forms of the tools with the tools found in the Bodaki. Located in the upper reaches of the Prut, the Middle Dniester and the Middle Bug, they were quite far from the center of high-quality flint processing of the Volhynian flint. Despite this, the basis of their production complexes were sets of tools made from this raw material, while local breeds were used to a lesser extent. These data indicate a high level of organization of stone-processing production, the presence of well-established links between the Tripolye sites of the time of the BII, which made it possible to provide their economy with high-quality production equipment.