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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>An Early Neolithic Bone and Antler Industry of Rakushechny Yar on the Lower Don: Technological Strategies and Functional Context</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"><contrib-id contrib-id-type="orcid">https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5636-3685</contrib-id><name-alternatives><name name-style="western" xml:lang="en"><surname>Maigrot</surname><given-names>Y.</given-names></name></name-alternatives><bio xml:lang="en"><p>Researcher, CNRS UMR 8215 Trajectoires Laboratory.</p><p>9 rue Malher 75004, Paris</p></bio><email xlink:type="simple">yolaine.maigrot@cnrs.fr</email><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff-1"/></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author" corresp="yes"><contrib-id contrib-id-type="orcid">https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1394-1814</contrib-id><name-alternatives><name name-style="western" xml:lang="en"><surname>Mazurkevich</surname><given-names>A. N.</given-names></name></name-alternatives><bio xml:lang="en"><p>Senior Researcher, State Hermitage Museum.</p><p>Dvortsovaya nab. 34, St. Petersburg, 191181</p></bio><email xlink:type="simple">a-mazurkevich@mail.ru</email><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff-2"/></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author" corresp="yes"><contrib-id contrib-id-type="orcid">https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1843-9620</contrib-id><name-alternatives><name name-style="western" xml:lang="en"><surname>Dolbunova</surname><given-names>E. V.</given-names></name></name-alternatives><bio xml:lang="en"><p>Researcher, State Hermitage Museum.</p><p>Dvortsovaya nab. 34, St. Petersburg, 191181</p></bio><email xlink:type="simple">katjer@mail.ru</email><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff-2"/></contrib></contrib-group><aff xml:lang="en" id="aff-1"><institution>CNRS UMR 8215 Trajectoires</institution><country>France</country></aff><aff xml:lang="en" id="aff-2"><institution>State Hermitage Museum</institution><country>Russian Federation</country></aff><pub-date pub-type="collection"><year>2023</year></pub-date><pub-date pub-type="epub"><day>03</day><month>01</month><year>2024</year></pub-date><volume>51</volume><issue>4</issue><fpage>35</fpage><lpage>44</lpage><permissions><copyright-statement>Copyright &amp;#x00A9; Maigrot Y., Mazurkevich A.N., Dolbunova E.V., 2024</copyright-statement><copyright-year>2024</copyright-year><copyright-holder xml:lang="ru">Maigrot Y., Mazurkevich A.N., Dolbunova E.V.</copyright-holder><copyright-holder xml:lang="en">Maigrot Y., Mazurkevich A.N., Dolbunova E.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/1777">https://journal.archaeology.nsc.ru/jour/article/view/1777</self-uri><abstract><p>The Early Neolithic site of Rakushechny Yar on the Lower Don evidences successive peopling of the coastal zone in the 6th millennium BC. Analysis of faunal remains, toolkit, and limited technological contexts suggest seasonal orientation of the site shown at least at the early stages. We present the results of the analysis of the Early Neolithic bone tools from Rakushechny Yar layers 23–11 of excavation I, and assess their place in the context of bone industries of the contemporaneous archaeological cultures. The collection is dominated by points. Despite the variable morphology, their preforms and manufacturing techniques are rather standard. Apart from points, two spatula-like tools and two specimens with beveled edges, made from red-deer antler, were found. A limited typological and functional set reveals a peculiar subsistence activity. The traceological analysis has highlighted a stable series of tools for working skins and processing coarse vegetable materials (possibly for basket weaving). Spatula-shaped tools were likely destined for processing mineral materials such as ceramics. Certain typological and technological parallels are found in the Northern Caspian and the Lower Volga regions, but especially in the Southern Caucasian Neolithic (Aratashen-Shulaveri-Shomutepe) traditions possibly originating from those of the Levant and Zagros.</p></abstract><kwd-group xml:lang="en"><kwd>Early Neolithic</kwd><kwd>bone industry</kwd><kwd>Rakushechny Yar</kwd><kwd>technological traditions</kwd><kwd>functional context</kwd><kwd>traceology</kwd></kwd-group><funding-group><funding-statement xml:lang="en">The study of the bone artifacts collection and the functional context was supported by the Russian Foundation for Basic Research and the House of Human Sciences Foundation (FMSH), under the Scientific Project No. 21-59-22008. 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