Pages: 101-125 | DOI: https://doi.org/10.55086/sp231101125

The multilayer site of Rozhok I is a reference object for the study of the Middle Palaeolithic in the south of the Russian Plain. The well-preserved cultural remains lying in a thick bed of loess-soil sediments may shed light on a number of questions regarding the chronology and cultural affinities of the regional Middle Palaeolithic industries, as well as the economic activity of their makers and the character of manufacturing technologies used to produce stone and bone tools. Of special interest is a series of bone artifacts identified among faunal remains from cultural horizon VI. These include both lightly and heavily modified objects, some of which appear to have been associated with symbolic behavior. The paper presents the results of an in-depth technological analysis of these artifacts.

Keywords: North-Eastern Azov region, bone industry, bone splitting technology

Information about authors:

Alexander Kolesnik (Donets’k). Doctor of Historical Sciences. Donetsk National University. Universitetskaya St., 24, Donetsk, 83001
E-mail: [email protected]
ORCID: 0000-0002-4933-8438
Evgeny Girya (Saint Petersburg, Russian Federation). Candidate of Historical Sciences. Institute for the History of Material Culture of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Dvortsovaya Emb., 18, Saint Petersburg, 191186, Russian Federation
E-mail: [email protected]
ORCID: 0000-0002-2037-9826
Aleksey Danilchenko (Rostov-on-Don, Russian Federation). Kamensk Museum of Decorative and Applied Arts and Folk Art. Karl Marx Ave., 56, Kamensk-Shakhtinsky, 347800, Rostov Oblast, Russian Federation
E-mail: [email protected]
ORCID: 0000-0003-2793-9088
Vadim Titov (Rostov-on-Don, Russian Federation). Candidate of Biological Sciences. Southern Scientific Center of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Chekhov Ave., 41, Rostov-on-Don, 344006, Russian Federation
E-mail: [email protected]
ORCID: 0000-0001-5938-5775
Oksana Olikh (Taganrog, Russian Federation). Taganrog State Literary and Historical-Architectural Museum-Reserve. Oktyabrskaya St., 9, Taganrog, 347935, Rostov Oblast, Russian Federation
E-mail: [email protected]
ORCID: 0000-0001-6397-7976
Alexander Otcherednoy (Saint Petersburg, Russian Federation). Candidate of Historical Sciences. Institute for the History of Material Culture of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Dvortsovaya Emb., 18, Saint Petersburg, 191186, Russian Federation
E-mail: [email protected]
ORCID: 0000-0001-7616-5686