Pages: 45-57

The paper presents the materials obtained as a result of recent fieldwork at the surface site of Grushka in the Middle Dniester river valley, near the village of Grushka in Camenca district. The site was first discovered in 2005 by S. Covalenco. The reported work was carried out in 2011 by the Dniester Archaeological Expedition of the Institute for the History of Material Culture of the Russian Academy of Sciences and Transnistria State University. In 2011, 6 areas of localization of surface finds were dilineated, and 4 test pits were made in one of them (area 2). The collection includes 471 artefacts made from local flint. The main part of the collection consists of flakes, cores and pre-cores. The retouched tools are mainly represented by various end scrapers, supplemented with some side srapeprs and artefacts with intermittent retouch. Of special interest is a series of unfinished bifacial forms, which find analogies in some Upper Palaeolithic assemlages of Moldova and make it possible to tentatively date the material of Grushka to the Early Upper Palaeolithic.

Keywords: Dniester region, Grushka, Early Upper Palaeolithic, surface finds, bifacial tools

Information about authors:

Nikolai Anisyutkin (Saint Petersburg, Russia). Doctor of Historical Sciences. Institute for the History of Material Culture of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Dvortsovaya Nab., 18, Saint Petersburg, 191186, Russia
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Vitalie Burlacu (Kishinev, Moldova). Institute of Cultural Heritage of the Academy of Sciences of Moldova. Stefan cel Mare Bd., 1, Kishinev, MD-2001, Moldova
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Vladislav Marareskul (Tiraspol, Moldova). The State Service of Geology and Subsoil of Transnistria. Yunosti St., 58/3, Tiraspol, MD-3300, Moldova
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Aleksander Otcherednoy (Saint Petersburg, Russia). Candidate of Historical Sciences. Institute for the History of Material Culture of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Dvortsovaya Nab., 18, Saint Petersburg, 191186, Russia
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Kseniya Stepanova (Saint Petersburg, Russia). Institute for the History of Material Culture of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Dvortsovaya Nab., 18, Saint Petersburg, 191186, Russia
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Ayslu Вasner (Saint Petersburg, Russia)
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