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THE STONE AGE</subject></subj-group><subj-group subj-group-type="section-heading" xml:lang="ru"><subject>ПАЛЕОЭКОЛОГИЯ. КАМЕННЫЙ ВЕК</subject></subj-group></article-categories><title-group><article-title>Fossil Bone Implements in the Industry of the Early Paleolithic Site Bogatyri/Sinyaya Balka (Taman Peninsula)</article-title><trans-title-group xml:lang="ru"><trans-title></trans-title></trans-title-group></title-group><contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="author" corresp="yes"><name-alternatives><name name-style="western" xml:lang="en"><surname>Kulakov</surname><given-names>S. A.</given-names></name></name-alternatives><bio xml:lang="en"><p>Pr. Akademika Lavrentieva 17, Novosibirsk, 630090, Russia</p></bio><email xlink:type="simple">kazvolg@yandex.ru</email><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff-1"/></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author" corresp="yes"><name-alternatives><name name-style="western" xml:lang="en"><surname>Girya</surname><given-names>E. Y.</given-names></name></name-alternatives><bio xml:lang="en"><p>Dvortsovaya nab. 18, St. Petersburg, 191186, Russia</p></bio><email xlink:type="simple">kostionki@yandex.ru</email><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff-2"/></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author" corresp="yes"><name-alternatives><name name-style="western" xml:lang="en"><surname>Titov</surname><given-names>V. V.</given-names></name></name-alternatives><bio xml:lang="en"><p>Pr. Chekhova 41, Rostov-on-Don, 344006, Russia</p></bio><email xlink:type="simple">vvtitov@yandex.ru</email><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff-3"/></contrib></contrib-group><aff xml:lang="en" id="aff-1"><institution>Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography, Siberian Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences</institution><country>Russian Federation</country></aff><aff xml:lang="en" id="aff-2"><institution>Institute for the History of Material Culture, Russian Academy of Sciences</institution><country>Russian Federation</country></aff><aff xml:lang="en" id="aff-3"><institution>Southern Scientific Center, Russian Academy of Sciences</institution><country>Russian Federation</country></aff><pub-date pub-type="collection"><year>2022</year></pub-date><pub-date pub-type="epub"><day>02</day><month>04</month><year>2022</year></pub-date><volume>50</volume><issue>1</issue><fpage>3</fpage><lpage>13</lpage><permissions><copyright-statement>Copyright &amp;#x00A9; Kulakov S.A., Girya E.Y., Titov V.V., 2022</copyright-statement><copyright-year>2022</copyright-year><copyright-holder xml:lang="ru">Kulakov S.A., Girya E.Y., Titov V.V.</copyright-holder><copyright-holder xml:lang="en">Kulakov S.A., Girya E.Y., Titov V.V.</copyright-holder><license xml:lang="ru" license-type="creative-commons-attribution" xlink:href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/" xlink:type="simple"><license-p>Данная работа распространяется под лицензией Creative Commons Attribution 4.0.</license-p></license><license xml:lang="en" license-type="creative-commons-attribution" xlink:href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/" xlink:type="simple"><license-p>This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.</license-p></license></permissions><self-uri xlink:href="https://journal.archaeology.nsc.ru/jour/article/view/1384">https://journal.archaeology.nsc.ru/jour/article/view/1384</self-uri><abstract><p>We describe three processed fossilized bones of sea mammals of the Miocene age, discovered in various years, but in similar stratigraphic and planigraphic contexts, at the Early Paleolithic site Bogatyri/Sinyaya Balka, on the northern coast of the Taman Peninsula. We provide information on the age, stratigraphy, and planigraphy of the site, interpreted as a place for butchering carcasses of elephants and rhinoceroses (elasmotheres). Results of traceological analysis suggest that two fossilized seal bones had been split by the counterstrike technique on soft (wooden or bone) anvils, while the third bone had been more thoroughly processed. All three specimens may have been collected from coastal deposits. Fossilized seal bones were evidently used as raw material along with rocks and animal bones of the Taman faunal complex. Small and inconvenient as they are, such bones provided the hardest isotropic material available at the site. That their use was not incidental is convincingly demonstrated by artifact No. 1, found in 2005. The point made on this bone is situated in the middle of an intentionally prepared blade, in a notch fashioned by shallow retouch. This bone tool is quite similar to other points in the Early Paleolithic industry of Bogatyri/Sinyaya Balka. Tools of that category differ in shape and size, but are similar because of a special morphological element— a point (bec, borer, etc.) shaped by a combination of retouch and small encoches at any suitable place in the blank such as jointing or spall.</p></abstract><kwd-group xml:lang="en"><kwd>Early Paleolithic</kwd><kwd>Northern Eurasia</kwd><kwd>Bogatyri/Sinyaya Balka</kwd><kwd>Paleolithic industries</kwd><kwd>fossilized bone artifacts</kwd><kwd>morphological and traceological analyzes</kwd></kwd-group><funding-group><funding-statement xml:lang="en">The analysis of archaeological materials and traceological studies were supported by the Russian Science Foundation, Grant No. 21-18-00552; paleontological identification and description of the finds were performed under the Public Contract of the Southern Scientific Center of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Project No. 122011900166-9</funding-statement></funding-group></article-meta></front><back><ref-list><title>References</title><ref id="cit1"><label>1</label><citation-alternatives><mixed-citation xml:lang="ru">Amirkhanov H.A. 2016 Severniy Kavkaz: Nachalo preistorii. 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