МАТЕРИАЛЫ ЭПОХИ МЕЗОЛИТА ИЗ СОБРАНИЯ ЛИПЕЦКОГО ОБЛАСТНОГО КРАЕВЕДЧЕСКОГО МУЗЕЯ

Abstract

Sites of the Mesolithic in the forest-steppe Don region are studied to the least extent in comparison with other eras. At the same time, the materials of the Lipetsk Don River basin are characterized by a small number of culture-determining types of finds. Despite the systematic replenishment of the database of sources, the implementation of complex natural science research in recent years, the introduction into the scientific circulation of archival materials and museum collections, undoubtedly, remains relevant now. The paper is devoted to the publication of the results of a technical and typological analysis of materials of the Mesolithic from the collection of the Lipetsk Regional Museum of local history - collections carried out at different times by V.P. Levenok and A.Yu. Klokov. The analyzed collection of the Sselki site is represented by an incomplete typological series of tools and blanks, which include finds related to both the early and late periods of the Middle Stone Age. The question of the cultural-chronological status of an industry rests on solving the problem of its homogeneity. High trapezoid from the Cretaceous flint, a knife with a butt, are characteristic of the early Mesolithic Zimovnikovsky culture, the northeastern border of which, according to updated data, extends to the central part of the Don and Volga interfluve. Another, microlithic, part of the industry does not correspond to the findings described above, rather, referring to later Mesolithic periods. Other sites (n. 480, Zimnik) do not contain finds that would allow an unambiguous cultural and chronological attribution of the collections. Despite the significant limited source of informational capabilities of lifting material, its study is of great importance for the reconstruction of the historical and cultural process in the Mesolithic.

Keywords

• mesolithic
• forest-steppe
• don region
• zimovniky culture
• trapeze