Pages: 211-222

The paper presents the results of a comparative study of large blade production technologies in the Upper Palaeolithic industries of the Middle Yenisei, including Ust-Maltat II, Derbina IV and V, Malaya Siya (cultural layer 3) and Kokorevo I (cultural layer 4). The analysis of cores and blade blanks leads to a conclusion that in all these sites the production of large blades was accomplished by using the same knaping tehnology. This technological sameness appears to be a result of convergence, conditioned by the similarity of both the raw material and the desired product (big blades).

Keywords: Middle Yenisei, Upper Palaeolithic, big blades, knapping technology, experimental knapping.

Information about authors:

Vladimir Kharevich (Krasnoyarsk, Russian Federation). Candidate of Historical Sciences. Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography, Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Akademik Lavrentyev Ave., 17, Novosibirsk, 630090, Russian Federation
E-mail: [email protected]
Ivan Stasiuk (Krasnoyarsk, Russian Federation). Krasnoyarsk State Pedagogical University named after V. P. Astafiev. Lebedev St., 89, Krasnoyarsk, 660049, Russian Federation
E-mail: [email protected]