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Olesya Alexandrova currently works at the Stone Age Department, Institute of Archaeology of Russian Academy of Sciences. Olesya does research in Archaeology and Traceology. Their most recent publication is 'Cut marks on the bone of Equus (Allohippus) stenonis and traces of utilization on the stone tool from the Oldowan site Muhkai IIa in the North Caucasus'.
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January 2005 - December 2016
January 2005 - December 2016
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September 2004 - July 2010
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96 пред-метов) из коллекции каменного инвентаря верхнего мезолитического слоя пещеры Двойной (литологический слой 4/5), сформированная в результате технологическо-го анализа коллекции каменного инвентаря. Трасологический анализ позволил уста-новить, что преобладающей функцией отжимных заготовок было их использование в качестве вкладышей составного...
During the 2018 year fieldworks at the Avdeevo Palaeolithic site it was investigated the territory near (about 8 m) the second settlement unit (Avdeevo 2). There were collected some flint artifacts and identifiable mammalian bones and teeth, among them was a perforated wolf (Canis lupus) vertebra caudal. This item is Canis lupus vertebra caudal wit...
The paper is devoted to a rare case of an encounter in the Early Pleistocene cultural layer of a bone with cut marks and a flint tool bearing use-wear traces. These artifacts were discovered in the context of Oldowan industry at the site Muhkai IIa, layer 2013-2, which dates back to no later than 1.95 million years ago. Complex analysis of the mate...
Keywords: Upper Palaeolithic, Northwest Caucasus, bone artefacts, morphology, technology, use-wear studies.This paper describes bone artefacts from the Upper Palaeolithic layer of the multilayer site of the
Dvoynaya cave tentatively dated to 13,000 BP. A small collection including several awls, a needle fragment,
a chisel-like tool and some non-uti...
This paper presents results of recent multidisciplinary research on two multi-layer sites containing LateUpper Palaeolithic and Mesolithic cultural levels in the north-western Caucasus. New excavations providedrepresentative and homogeneous assemblages of artefacts and faunal remains dating to the Last GlacialMaximum through to the beginning of the...
This paper presents the data of technical and technological analyses of organic and inorganic residues collected from the surfaces of lithic artifacts recovered from the Early Mesolithic layer in the Dvoinaya Cave (Northwestern Caucasus). The micro-chemical and IR analyses have revealed plant and animal residues, as well as mineral components. Orga...
