Pages: 321-331

The paper presents the results of a complex research aimed at the reconstruction of blade production technology in the industry of layer 19 of the site of Listvenka on the Middle Yenisei. The site is dated within the period from 17 to 10 kya. The assemblage belongs to the so called small blade industry characteristic of the middle stage of the Late Palaeolithic of Siberia. It includes more than 7 thousand of stone and bone objects. Thanks to the combination of experimental, technological and typological studies supplemented with refitting it became possible to reconstruct and describe in detail the principal techniques of small blade and bladelet production used by the ancient tool makers and to establish cause-and-effect links between different methods of knapping and the character of technical flakes and blanks.

Keywords: Middle Yenisei, Upper Palaeolithic, stone industry, knapping technology, experimental knapping.

Information about authors:

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