Технология производства пластин в каменной индустрии культурного слоя 19 стоянки Лиственка
Blade Production Technology in the Industry of Layer 19 of the Listvenka Site

Summary/Abstract: The paper presents the results of a complex research aimed at the reconstruction of blade production technology in the industry of layer 19 of the site of Listvenka on the Middle Yenisei. The site is dated within the period from 17 to 10 kya. The assemblage belongs to the so called small blade industry characteristic of the middle stage of the Late Palaeolithic of Siberia. It includes more than 7 thousand of stone and bone objects. Thanks to the combination of experimental, technological and typological studies supplemented with refitting it became possible to reconstruct and describe in detail the principal techniques of small blade and bladelet production used by the ancient tool makers and to establish cause-and-effect links between different methods of knapping and the character of technical flakes and blanks.

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