Institute for the History of Material Culture RAS
Pervobytnaia arkheologiia. Zhurnal mezhdistsiplinarnykh issledovanii
Prehistoric Archaeology. Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies
Pervobytnaia arkheologiia. Zhurnal mezhdistsiplinarnykh issledovanii
Prehistoric Archaeology. Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies

Bessudnov A. A., Malyutina A. A., Lada A. R., Kupriyanova M. D., Stepanova K. N., Petrova E. A., Tsaritsyna A. R., Sinitsyn A. A. Objects made of organic materials from cultural layer II of Kostenki 17 (Spitsynskaya): 2021 collection

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Institute for the History of Material Culture RAS, 18 Dvortsovaya emb., St. Petersburg,

191186, Russia [bessudnov_a22@mail.ru]

Zoological Institute RAS, 1 Universitetskaya emb., St. Petersburg, 199034, Russia [ekaterina.petrova@zin.ru]

Abstract. The paper presents the preliminary results of the study of osseous objects discovered in cultural layer II of Kostenki 17 (Spitsynskaya) in 2021. Though the finds are not numerous (5 items only), their description and analysis add much to our understanding of how bone/antler/ivory artifacts were manufactured and used by the site inhabitants. Of particular interest is a non-ornamented ivory ≪ring≫-pendant, having as yet no direct analogies in assemblages dated to the beginning of the Upper Paleolithic.

Keywords: Early/Initial Upper Paleolithic, Kostenki, osseous inventory, manufacturing techniques, use-wear analysis.

Received 28.10.2022, accepted 11.11.2022.

DOI: 10.31600/2658-3925-2022-2-53-67

For citation: Bessudnov A. A., Malyutina A. A., Lada A. R., Kupriyanova M. D., Stepanova K. N., Petrova E. A., Tsaritsyna A. R., Sinitsyn A. A. Objects made of organic materials from cultural layer II of Kostenki 17 (Spitsynskaya): 2021 collection. Prehistoric Archaeology. Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies. 2022 (2), 53–67 (in Russ.). DOI: 10.31600/2658-3925-2022-2-53-67 

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