Pages: 369-382

The article studies barbed point phenomenon in western part of Baikal Siberia aged 12 000 BP. There are two different approaches to the classification of such tools today: morphological and functional. The authors support the functional classification and grade the points of the discussed sites (Bolshoi Yakor I, Verkholenskaya Gora I, Makarovo II, Strizhova Gora and Kurla I) according to morphological and morphometrical characteristics and their zooarchaeological context to harpoon and traumatic types. These studies have led to the conclusion that most of the points are the tips of thrusting harpoon type spears or harpoons with detachable head.

Keywords: Baikal Siberia, Final Pleistocene, bone and horn tools, barbed points, “harpoons”

Information about authors:

Aleksey Kuznetsov (Irkutsk, Russian Federation). Irkutsk State University. K. Marx St., 1, Irkutsk, 664003, Russian Federation
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Evgeny Rogovskoy (Irkutsk, Russian Federation). Candidate of Historical Sciences. Irkutsk State University. K. Marx St., 1, Irkutsk, 664003, Russian Federation
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