Trubitsyno 5 – a New Mesolithic-Eneolithic Site in the Upper Don Region
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https://doi.org/10.24852/2587-6112.2023.1.225.238Keywords:
archaeology, Upper Don region, Mesolithic, Neolithic, Eneolithic, stone artifact, pottery, faunistic remainsAbstract
Results from the analysis of artifacts dated back to the Mesolithic-Eneolithic age and found during excavations of the multilayer settlement Trubitsyno 5 on the right bank of the Don River (Yelets District of the Lipetsk Oblast) in 2018 and 2022 are presented in the article. Overall, there were 916 stone artifacts found at this site. They are mainly made of raw materials characteristic for the Upper Don region: coloured chert, quartzite, sandstone. Individual finds are made of non-local black Cretaceous flint. The collection is characterized mainly by the flake technique of removing blanks, much less – by the blade one. The assemblage makes it possible to trace the full cycle of stone processing with such techniques as primary knapping, retouching, polishing, sometimes – burin production. Most lithics represent the evidence for processing of raw material. There are also some tools with secondary modification (end-scrapers, side-scrapers, large cutting tools, burins, points, burins, piercers, combined tools). The pottery series includes 57 fragments with diamond-pit, pit, pit-comb, comb ornaments. The bone collection includes 65 items, of which one item is identified as a bone of Bos primigenius; one item is supposed to be a part of some tool.
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