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December 1995
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Antiquity
The artefact assemblages from early Upper Palaeolithic sites in eastern European Russia contain flint tools of more Middle Palaeolithic type. With these artefacts are bifacially thinned triangular forms that may represent the first use of this technology in the area, and perhaps anywhere in Europe.
... At the same time, the general trend towards the consistent preparation of the opposing surfaces fl at and convex is seen on all the complete items ( Fig. 10: 3, 4; 11: 1) and on many fragments ( Fig. 10: 1, 2). Moreover, the bifaces are relatively massive in crosssection, at least they diff er from the parameters of the thin Kostenki-Streletskian Early Upper Paleolithic bifaces (Bradley et al. 1995). As far as the applied manufacturing methods are concerned, the bifacial pieces in the upper layer of Mira are generally consistent with the basic parameters of the Micoquian Middle Paleolithic technology. ...
December 1995
Antiquity
