title: Flint Processing in Donbass during the Chalcolithic
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metadata.value: Kolesnik, Alexander V.
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metadata.name: dc.date.accessioned
metadata.value: 2022-03-09T11:01:21Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.available
metadata.value: 2022-03-09T11:01:21Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.issued
metadata.value: 2021-12
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metadata.value: Kolesnik A. V. Flint Processing in Donbass during the Chalcolithic. Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. History, 2021, vol. 66, issue 4, рp. 1296–1316.
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metadata.value: https://doi.org/10.21638/11701/spbu02.2021.415
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metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/35531
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metadata.value: In the Neolithic, the Donbass was finally formed as one of prominent European centers for
  extraction and primary processing of raw flint. The formation of such a large economic area
  with its particular production specialization was determined by the mineral wealth of the region
  and its plentiful deposits of high-quality Upper Cretaceous flints. The most complex sites
  of mining in terms of organization and specialised workshops on primary flint splitting date
  back to this period. As far as mining in the southern Donbas of the time is concerned, there
  emerged adits for flint extraction in the layer of limestone (Shirokoie). The mine workings
  were made in the form of wide horizontal chambers along the slope with separate entrances
  and transport and ventilation apertures. The mining was carried out with horn tools and adzes
  with metal wedge-shaped inserts. In the Chalcolithic, workshops for production of bifaces
  (Krasnoie) and a specialized settlement of flint craftsmen (Vasilyevskaia Pustosh) emerged
  in the North-Western Donbass. A variety of techniques for primary splitting and making of
  stone tools, characterized by a distinct cultural context, was used in these workshops. For the
  production of plates, large blanks of lithic cores with one platform and two longitudinal edges
  with two-sided processing that converge at the base were used. The most complex technologies
  for lithic cores splitting and tools processing are associated with the so-called Novodanilovsky
  cultural complex. The article contributes to the series of publications on the development of
  the Donetsk center for mining and primary processing of flint in the Stone Age.
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.language.iso
metadata.value: ru
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.publisher
metadata.value: St Petersburg State University
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.relation.ispartofseries
metadata.value: Vestnik of St Petersburg University. History;Volume 66; Issue 4
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Donbass
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Chalcolithic
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: raw materials strategies
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: workshops
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: adits for flint mining
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: lithic cores
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.title
metadata.value: Flint Processing in Donbass during the Chalcolithic
metadata.lang: en_GB
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metadata.value: Article
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