Postnikov Ravine III: stages of settlement of site
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https://doi.org/10.24852/2587-6112.2023.1.195.210Keywords:
archaeology, Middle Volga region, Upper Paleolithic, Mesolithic, Postnikov ravine III, workshops for splitting stone raw materials, chipping technique.Abstract
In September 2022, the 100th anniversary was celebrated when M.G. Matkin, a member of the Society of Archeology, History, Ethnography and Natural Sciences at Samara University, discovered stone tools and ceramics fragments on the territory of Samara at the mouth of the Postnikov ravine. The oldest location at the mouth of the Postnikov ravine is the so-called Workshop III Fire Pit 2. Its lower horizon belongs to the Upper Paleolithic era by a number of signs: it laid in the lower thickness of Late Pleistocene loam, demonstrated late Paleolithic flaking technique and a set of tools typical of the Upper Paleolithic. Two more horizons of cultural remnants were found above it – workshops for splitting stone raw materials. The middle layer was confined to the top of the cover loam, and the upper layer was confined to the border of loam and humus soil. A comparative technological analysis of the stone inventory of all three horizons allows us to trace the trend of the change of flaking techniques from the Upper Paleolithic to the Mesolithic and make the assumption that this transition occurred in the region in the Final Paleolithic time.
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