Abstract
Excavations undertaken in the upper portion of the Pleistocene deposits from South Chamber of Denisova Cave yielded a set of bone tools in association with numerous stone artifacts. The Middle Palaeolithic layer 12 revealed bone retouchers and a retouched bone fragment. Along with lightly modified bone tools such as retouchers and retouched pieces, Layer 11 has yielded such stone tools as a point, a needle, a polisher and a tool blank, all attributed to the early Upper Palaeolithic. The obtained archaeological record has made it possible to reconstruct technologies of manufacturing lightly and significantly modified bone tools. Use-wear analysis of the point, needle and polisher has shown clear signs of usage and a range of deformation features associated with utilization.
Keywords
Altai Mountains, Denisova Cave, Middle Palaeolithic, early Upper Palaeolithic, bone tools
Baumann M.
University of Bordeaux, France
Fedorchenko A.Yu.
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7812-8037
Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography SB RAS
Kozlikin M.B.
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5082-3345
Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography SB RAS
Plisson H.
University of Bordeaux, France
Shunkov M.V.
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1388-2308
Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography SB RAS
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Costamagno S., Bourguignon L., Soulier M.-C., Meignen L., Beauval C., Rendu W., Mussini C., Mann A., Maureille B. Bone retouchers and site function in the Quina Mousterian: The case of Les Pradelles (Marillac-Le-France, France) // The Origins of Bone Tool Technologies. -Hannover: Propylaeum, 2018. - Р. 165-195.
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