Pages: 93-106

This article is in Russian
The paper treats the selection of blades found on the five sites of Bolgrad variant of Gumelnita culture, situated in the southern Ukraine and Moldova close to the Lower Danube. It concentrates mainly on the different knapping technologies applied in blade production. Authors argue that they were mostly produced by punch technique and make an attempt to correlate the development of Eneolithic “large-blade” lithic industry and wide application of the indirect percussion on the chronological scale. Punch-produced blades entered Lower Danube region as ready-made items or as preforms. Early Eneolithic exchange was not limited to the objects involved in the definition of high social status. It could also bring “non-prestigious” everyday items to considerable distances.

Keywords: Lower Danube region, Eneolithic, flintknapping, blades, technique of detachment.

Information about authors:

Dmytro Kiosak (Odessa, Ukraine). Candidate of Historical Sciences. I. I. Mechnikov Odessa National University. Dvoryanskaya St., 2, Odessa, 65023, Ukraine
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Leonid Subbotin (Odessa, Ukraine). Candidate of Historical Sciences.
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