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Early Upper Palaeolithic in the Russian Plain: Streletskayan flaked stone artefacts and technology

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Bruce A. Bradley
Affiliation:
Crow Canyon Archaeological Center, 23390 CR K, Cortez CO 81321, USA
Michael Anikovich
Affiliation:
Institute of Material Culture History, Dvortsovaya naberezhnaya 18, St Petersburg, Russia 191041
Engenii Giria
Affiliation:
Institute of Material Culture History, Dvortsovaya naberezhnaya 18, St Petersburg, Russia 191041

Abstract

The artefact assemblages from early Upper Palaeolithic sites in eastern European Russia contain flint tools of more Middle Palaeolithic type. With these artefacts are bifacially thinned triangular forms that may represent the first use of this technology in the area, and perhaps anywhere in Europe.

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Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd. 1995

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